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CREMASTUS (ZALEPTOPYGUS) CLERIDIVORUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 7 mm., antennae 5 mm., ovipositor 2.7 mm. 

 Head in dorsal view half as long as wide; temples strongly romided; 

 occipital carina faintly complete; eyes about as long as width of face, 

 fully three-fourths as wide as long, parallel; face punctate, shghtly 

 elevated in middle; clj'peus broad, nearly straight at apex, about 

 two-thirds as long as interfoveal line and equal to foveo-ocular line; 

 malar space about two-thirds as long as basal width of mandible; 

 cheeks from in front slightly rounded below eyes; ocell-ocular and 

 postocellar lines about equal and nearly twice as long as diameter of 

 ocelh; thorax stout, propodeum strongly arched and not nearly reach- 

 ing middle of coxae; pronotum lateral!}^ shagreen ed and weakly punc- 

 tate; notauli strong and strongly, densely punctate, mesoscutum other- 

 wise finely, rather sparsely, punctate; scutellum likewise, without 

 lateral carinae; mesopleura finely punctate, except in longitudinal 

 impression which is polished; sternauli very weak; metapleura rather 

 more densely punctate; propodeal carinae strong, areola and petiolar 

 areas punctate, the latter slightly the shorter and transversely striate, 

 other areas punctate, areola barely half as wide as petiolar area; head 

 and thorax with short, dense, silvery pubescence; stigma about three- 

 fifths as wide as long, radius far beyond middle; second abscissa of 

 radius and basal vein nearly straight; second recurrent postfurcal; 

 nervulus interstitial; nervellus antef ureal and weakly broken below 

 middle; legs slender, hind basitarsus about two-thirds as long as tibia, 

 and nearly as long as other four joints combined. Abdomen barely 

 one and one-half times as long as head and thorax united; first tergite 

 longer than second, its ventral edges subparallcl and not enclosing 

 the sternite, the lateral foveae verj^ strong and extending to middle, 

 evenly curved above, the postpetiole not elevated above level of peti- 

 ole, gradually increasing in width from basal fourth to about apical 

 fourth where the sides become parallel to end, about one-third 

 as wide at apex as long; second tergite slightly less than three times 

 as long as basal width, slightly wider at apex, longitudinally striate; 

 first two tergites slightly longer than others miited; ovipositor twice 

 as long as first tergite. 



Black; orbits and mouth region yellow; face brown in middle; 

 pronotum rufo-testaceous; tegulae and wing bases stramineous; 

 tergites one and two black, others brownish piceous more or less 

 yellowish apically and laterally; wings hj'aline, veins and stigma 

 brown, front and middle legs nearly stramineous; hind legs fusco- 

 testaceous, trochanter and apex of femur pale, tibia in middle and 

 tarsus at base somewhat paler. 



Type-locality. — Kanawha Station, West Virginia. 



Oilier localities. — Try on. North Carolina, Lawrence, Kansas. 



Type.— Cat. No. 20267, U.S.N.M. 



