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but complete; hind tibia hardly a third longer than femur; basi tarsus 

 as long as three following joints. Abdomen faintly shagreened and 

 sparsely and finely punctate; first tergite polished, three-fifths as 

 wide at apex as long, second three-fourths, third nearly, fourth fully 

 as wide at base as long, others much shorter, the apical three retracted 

 within fifth. 



Black with abdomen largely red; head and thorax with yellow 

 markings as follows: Orbits, broad in front and narrow behind eyes; 

 malar space; face except a median black point above and a curved 

 black line on each side from base of antenna to clypeal fovea; man- 

 dibles; triangular spots at origins of notauli; base of tegula; subalar 

 tubercle; and scutellum laterally and apically; antennae black, brown- 

 ish beneath; wings suffused brownish hyaline, veins dark, stigma 

 and costa pale; legs testaceous to stramineous, hind coxae and basal 

 joint of trochanter except at apex, middle coxa at base and behind, 

 basal joint of trochanter behind, and front coxa at base black; abdo- 

 men, except extreme base of first tergite and the retracted apical 

 joints, which are piceous, ferruginous. 



Male. — In structure and sculpture like female, except that the 

 abdomen is somewhat more slender with apical tergite not retracted; 

 face entirely, cheeks, antennae beneath, propleura, a small spot near 

 upper margin of pronotum, a long oblique streak on mesopleurum 

 extending from middle coxa to anterior margin; a median spot on 

 mesoscutum, postscutellum, a large spot apically on metapleurum, 

 and a narrow subapical band on first tergite also yellow; front and 

 middle legs, except extreme base of coxae, entirely yellow; hind coxa 

 above below and at apex, basal joint of trochanter apically and apical 

 joint entirely, base and apex of femur, tibia except its fuscous apex, 

 and tarsus largely yellow; hind femur piceous with a paler streak 

 above; first tergite, except as noted above, and apex of abdomen 

 black. 



Host. — Epischnia granitella Ragonot. 



Type-locality. — Crows Landing, Calif. 



Type.— C&t. No. 27686, U.S.N.M. 



One female and two males reared from the host during December, 

 1911, and January, 1912, by F. A. Hyde, under Chittenden No. 

 2109»^ 



The paratype male is less extensively yellow than the allotype, 

 lacking the discal mesoscutal spot and those on postscutellum and 

 metapleurum, while the mesopleural spot is represented by an irregu- 

 lar streak in front of the middle coxa and a very small spot near 

 anterior margin, and the submarginal band on first tergite is inter- 

 rupted medially. 



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