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Type locality. — Douglas, Michigan. 



Other locality. — Lafayottc, Indiana. 



Type.— Cat. 'No. 19173, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one female and two males, the type, allotype, 

 and ]iaratype a, from the type-locality, where they were reared imder 

 Qiiaintance No. 5939, July 14-17, 1908, by R. W. Braucher "from 

 cocoons attached b}' end to under side of large limbs in peach 

 orchard"; and two males, paratypes h and c, reared under Webster 

 No. 1 186, from cocoons foimc! on cedar, at Lafayette. Indiana. 



Paratypes h and c are somewhat smaller than the allotype and 

 b differs from that specimen in having the thorax except the scutellum 

 and the region around the wing bases dark piceous. 



The cocoons of the Michigan specimens are pure white, about a 

 third of an inch long b}^ a third as wide, coarse netlike. Those of 

 the Indiana specimens are similar but smaller and yellowish. 



POLYSPHINCTA (ZATYPOTA) CALIFORNIENSIS, new species. 



Allied to nigrocfphala (Davis) and hravcheri Cushman, from both 

 of which it can at once be distinguished bv the lack of propodeal 

 carinae. 



Female.- — Length 6 mm., antennae (broken), ovipositor 0.3 mm. 



Head polished; t(>mples flat; postocellar and ocell-ocular lines 

 equal and about a half greater than diameter of lateral ocellus; 

 malar space half as long as basal width of mandible ; apex of scape 

 much less oblique than usual; face slightly longer than wide; thorax 

 subpolished, obscurely shagreened; propodeum finely shagreened 

 and with a shallow furrow in basal middle; abdomen shagreened, 

 subi)olished at apex and at apices of tergites; first tergite one and a 

 half times as long as wide, twice as wide at apex as at spiracles, its 

 sides straight with spiracles barely protruding, its anterior basin 

 very short with the carinae not extending beyond the summit, its 

 dorsal surface with a weak median impression and strong oblique 

 lateral impressions; rhomboidal areas strongly defined; second ter- 

 gite but little wider than long; transverse cubitus subobsolete ; nervel- 

 lus straight; hind basitarsus barely longer than next two joints 

 together. 



Pale brownish rufous with head black; prescutum in front, prono- 

 tum in front both dorsally and laterally, prosternum and mesosterum, 

 propodeum and first tergite, tergites 2-5 except basal third, which 

 is yellow, and all of remaining tergites of varying shades of fuscous 

 and rufo-fuscous, the paler shades being on apical tergites and disks 

 of middle tergites; scutellum yellow; mandibles, apex of clypeus, 

 palpi, scape, pedicel, wing bases, tegulae, humeral angle of pronotum, 

 and spot below tegula white; front and middle legs whitish with 

 femora and tarsi stramineous; hind coxae and femora testaceous, 



