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Male. — Length, 5 mm. Differs from female in having scape and 

 pedicel black above; anterior coxae and trochanters are whitish; the 

 usual silvery pubescence on the face is more pronounced. 



Type-locality. — Mistletoe, Oregon. Described from two females 

 and one male. Recorded under Bureau of Entomology' No. Hopk. 

 U. S. 14210Z>, which refers to a note stating that this species is 

 parasitic on Tineid moths infesting the fruit body of Polyporus 

 dryophihis. Material collected and reared by J. M. Miller. 



Type.—Q^t. No. 20177, U.S.N.M. 



MEl.EBORUS LASPEYRESIAE. new species. 



Female. — Length, 7.5 mm.; length of the ovipositor beyond the 

 end of the abdomen, 1.25 mm. Teeth of the mandibles equal; ante- 

 rior margin of the clypeus rounded ; malar space less than the width 

 of the mandibles at the base; head shagreened; ocellocular line 

 slightly less than the broadest diameter of the lateral ocellus; poste- 

 rior orbits nearly straight, two-thirds of the cephala-caudad diameter 

 of the eyes; mesothorax shagreened in addition to distinct, w^ell- 

 defined rather close punctures; propodeum with well-defined strong 

 carinas; basal lateral areas with punctures in addition to shagreen- 

 ing, posterior areas without punctures; petiole with a few irregular 

 lines above; postpetiole shagreened; no carinae from spiracle of first 

 tergite to apex; second tergite subenual in length to two following, 

 its posterior width one-third greater than its anterior ; its entire sur- 

 face shagreened; the spiracles distinctly beyond the middle with a 

 small tubercle nearer the spiracle than the base; radius obtusely 

 angulate, the second abscissa one-third longer than the first ; discoidal 

 cell distinctly narrower posteriorly than the length of the nervulus; 

 second intercubitus entirely wanting; nervellus slightly broken at 

 about the middle. Black; mandibles, palpi, scape, pedicelum be- 

 neath, tegulae, four anterior trochanters, the second posterior tro- 

 chanters and anterior tarsi yellowish white ; legs below the trochan- 

 ters rufous, posterior femora and apices of the posterior tibiae and 

 posterior tarsi somewhat brownish, the color being more intense on 

 the tarsi. Wings hyaline, irridescent ; venation dark brown. 



Type-locality. — Talent, Oregon. Described from two females 

 recorded under Bureau of Entomology, No. 11492e, which refers to a 

 note stating that the species is parasitic on Laspeyresia toruta living 

 in the cones of Pinus ponclerosa. Material collected by P. D. Sargent 

 and reared by J. M. Miller. 



Ti/pe.— Cat. No. 20180, U.S.N.M. 



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