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Type locality, Douglas, Mich. Seven specimens, August 3 

 to 6, 1908. On authority of Mr. I 'rancher, working under the 

 direction of Mr. Quaintance, the host of this species is the 

 codling moth or Carpocapsa pomonella. 



Superfamily SPHECOIDEA. 



Family CRABRONID^E. 

 Crabro (Hoplocrabro) spinibuccus, new species. 



Cheek approximately as in accompanying drawing (fig. 2, a), female 

 7 mm. Dullish, sericeous, and finely punctured; enclosure of meta- 

 thorax covered with fine radiating striae becoming coarse at base and 

 apex, on each side of the median groove of the metonotum the latter 



region is nearly sculptureless. Pygidial 

 area flat, sparsely coarsely punctured. 



Mostly black in color; clypeus mostly, 

 scape entirely, tubercles, pronotum, post- 

 scutellum, and more or less of the outer 

 side of tibiae and the coxae and tro- 

 chanters yellow, rest of antennae and 

 legs, the mandibles, and abdomen more or 

 less brown ; wings brownish transparent, nervures and stigma dark 

 brown, tegulse testaceous. 



T\pc in collection of the American Entomological Society, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Type locality, Havilah, Cal. 



Crabro (Cuphopterus) foveolineatus, new species. 



Differs from the known species of this subgenus in having 

 the fovese of the front narrow or linear. 



Females 9 mm., finely sculptured all over and in most places subtle, 

 satiny, with exceedingly fine striae that are close together and inter- 

 spersed with minute but distinct punctures that are very sparse ; frontal 

 fovae more than 5 times as long as wide, practically parallel-sided and 

 extending along the upper one-third of the inner eye margin; meta- 

 thorax with a deep impression posteriorly, the enclosure longitudinally 

 finely closely striate, subtle, satiny, the rest of the metathorax sculp- 

 tured much the same, the striae transverse to oblique; pygidum funnel- 

 shape in outline (fig. fa b}, with the narrow portion alone margined, 

 the remainder rounded, seemingly impunctate throughout, the broad 

 portion longitudinally concave; black, scape, pedicel, anterior and middle 

 legs, pronotum, scutel, postscutel, the posterior trochanters, and the 

 upper division of the mesopleura entirely yellow; clypeus, mandibles, 

 posterior tibiae and abdomen mostly yellow, partly brown; flagel, tips 



