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close to each other, postocellar line equal to diameter of posterior 

 ocelli and twice as great as ocell-ocular line. 



Pronotum polished; mesoscutiim as wide as long, densely though 

 weakly punctured, with very short, fine, whitish pubescence, and with 

 practically no trace of notauli; mesopleura and mcsonotum sculptured 

 and clothed about as mesoscutuni except in region of punctiforra 

 fovea, where it is highly polished and without vestiture, the fovea 

 very deep; metapleura polished, almost without sculpture or vesti- 

 ture; propodeum laterally with dense punctuation and vestiture, 

 medially and posteriorly polished and without vestiture, the longi- 

 tudinal carinae very short, divergent and widely separated at base; 

 spiracles large, oval, about two-thirds as wide as long; legs very 

 stout, frorft tibiae much shorter than their femora, front claws 

 toothed at base. 



Abdomen finely, very dehsely punctured and clothed with very 

 short whitish pubescence; first tergite about as wide as long, dorsal 

 carinae weak except at extreme base, anterior declivity embracing 

 two-thirds of total dorsal length; other tergites, especially second 

 and third, with apical impression and lateral elevations well devel- 

 oped; terminal tergites subpolished and weakly punctate; ovipositor 

 short, stout, the sheath with very short, dense, black pubescence. 



Black, with legs largely red, apices of tergites 2-4 very narrowly 

 dark piceous; humeral spot, wing bases, and tegulae white, the latter 

 brown at apex; antennae black, slightly paler at extreme apex; 

 labial palpi black, labial palpi blackish at base; wings hyaline, veins 

 and stigma blackish, the latter pale at apex and base; front coxae 

 black except at apex, hind femora black at apex, hind tibiae black 

 with a white annulus in about the second fourth, their tarsi black, the 

 first three joints white at base, front and middle tibiae and tarsi with 

 same color pattern but less distinct, the black being replaced by ferru- 

 ginous on the middle legs and by stramineous on the front legs, 

 except that the basal annulus of the middle tibia is black. 



Male. — Length, 6 mm. 



Differs from female as follows: Less stout, the thorax considerably 

 longer than wide, malar space somewhat longer; all coxae black, hind 

 pair pale only at apex, middle and front pair pale at apex and in front; 

 all palpi white. 



The single paratype female is very like the type. 



Host. — Type and paratype from fruit-tree leaf-roller. Allotype 

 from bud-moth. 



Type-locality. — Wenatchee, Washington. 



Type.— Cut. No. 20779, U.S.N.M. 



Described from the above-mentioned two females and one male 

 reared from pupae of the hosts June 17 (paratype), June 19 (type), and 

 July 9 (allotype) by E. J. Newcomer, under Quaintance Nos. 11436 

 and 11440. 



