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pubescent, margin ciliate, not reaching to tip of abdomen. Hind 

 tarsus longer than tibia, second and fifth subequal, claws weak and 

 simple. Abdomen smooth and shining, strongly laterally compressed, 

 longer than head and thorax, second tergite not tongue-shaped, not 

 striate, bare, as long as third and fourth united, the latter subequal, 

 fifth longer than fourth, sixth longer than fifth, seventh short and 

 triangular, the last three being microscopically punctate on sides 

 with a few white hairs near dorsal margin, ventral valves protruding 

 posteriorly, hypopygium plowshare-shaped. 



Length, 5.3 mm. Abdomen, 3.25 mm. by 1.45 mm. wide. Wing, 

 3.5 mm. 



Described from one female. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23454, U.S.N.M. Type female on tag and parts 

 on slide. 



Type locality. — Santa Cruz Mountains, California. C. F. Baker, 

 collector. 



Genus (THYREOCERA Ashmead=)FIGITES Latreille. 

 Thyrcocera Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, 1887, p. 154. — Dalla 

 Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 2, 1893, p. 4. — Kieffer in Andre Spec. Hym. Eur., 

 vol. 7, 1902, p. 247, footnote. — Dalla Torre and Kieffer inWytsman, Gen. 

 Ins. Cynipidae, 1902, p. 7.— Ashmead, Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, p. 10.— Dalla 

 Torre and Kieffer, Das. Tierreich, Lief. 24, 1910, pp. 95, 890.— Rohwer and 

 Fagan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, 1917, p. 376. 



Genotype. — Figiteslaeviscutiim.I'rovaiich.er ( = nigrifemora Ashmead) . 



This genus was distingusihed from all other known Figitinae by 

 having "a small erect club on its disk posteriorly near the tip." It was 

 proposed in September and TTiyreocera nigrifemora Ashmead, de- 

 scribed from one specimen from Ontario, was the only included 

 species. In January of the same year, however, Provancher's de- 

 scription under the name of Figites laeviscutum had preceded 

 Ashmead's 3 so that the type must be known as Thyreocera laeviscu- 

 tum Provancher. The specimen on which Ashmead founded the new 

 genus is in the United States National Museum (Cat. No. 23607), and 

 an examination shows that the erect club on the scutellum is nothing 

 more than a small black cinder stuck on at that point. The speci- 

 men is a true Figites and should be placed in that genus and the name 

 Thyreocera should disappear in synonomy. 



Genus (FIGITODES Ashmead=)TRISCHIZA Foerster. 



Figitodes, Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. vol. 14, 1887, p. 150. — Dalla 

 Torre and Kieffer, Wytsman Gen. Ins. Cynpidae, 1902, pp. 4, 8. — Ashmead, 

 Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, p. 11. — Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Das. Tierroich, 

 Lief. 24. 1910, pp. 98, 886.— Rohwer and Fagan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 

 53, 1917, p. 367. 

 Firjiiides, (\mkkki.u , Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 16, 1899, p. 213. 

 This genus was first proposed by Ashmead in 1887 in a key sepa- 

 rating it from Figites, but no species was mentioned. In 1896 he 



1 Addit. faun, Canad. Hym., 1SS7, p. 170. 



