96 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUIVI BULLETIN 2 1 6 paet s 



Fulvous. Temple and orbit in front yellowish; tarsi brownish 

 apically; wings hyaline. 



Female: Front wing 6.0 mm. long; mesoscutum weakly mat all 

 over, with moderately strong, medium-sized punctures that are sepa- 

 rated by about 0.6 their diameter; mesopleurum with moderately 

 coarse, sharp punctures all over except on speculum, the punctures 

 separated by about 0.4 their diameter; ovipositor tip as in figure 

 328,c. 



Fulvous. Orbit tinged with yellow; flagellum blackish, with an 

 incomplete white band that covers about 5 segments. 



It is not certain that the male and female described above belong 

 to the same species. 



Specimens: 9, Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., July 17, 1932, R. H. Beamer 

 (Lawrence), cf (type), Bosque Co., Tex, (Washington). 



3. Mallochia frontalis, new species 



Figures 328,d; 331, b 



Front wing 3.8 to 5.5 mm. long; punctures on mesoscutum rather 

 coarse, on front half separated by about 0.5 their diameter, behind 

 the middle much sparser, separated by several times their diameter; 

 punctures on mesopleurum rather small but sharp, lacking from the 

 posterodorsal 40% of mesopleurum, elsewhere separated by about 0.4 

 their diameter; ovipositor tip as in figure 328, d. 



Male: Head and body marked with black, white, and fulvous 

 about as in figure 331,b; palpi pale yellow, darkened apically; scape 

 and pedicel brown; flagellum fuscous; front and middle legs fulvous, 

 the front coxa and trochanters and usually the front side of middle 

 coxa pale yellow, their tarsi brownish, darker apically; hind coxa, tro- 

 chanters, and femur fulvous, the first trochanter brownish; hind tibia 

 light brown, darker at base and apically; hind tarsus fuscous, the 

 third segment, usually all or most of second segment, and often more 

 or less of basal part of fourth segment, white. 



Female: Fulvous. Broad orbital ring (narrowed on upper part 

 of temple and broadened on middle and lower part of temple) , usually 

 the clypeus medially, collar and anterior part of lower margin of 

 pronotum, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, a pair 

 of dashes near middle of mesoscutum, scutellum, postscutellum, upper 

 division of metapleurum, and a broadly oval subapicolateral spot on 

 propodeum, ivory white; frons fuscous, fulvous ventrally and white 

 laterally; vertex and occiput fuscous, the vertex white near eyes; 

 pedicel brown ; flagellum fuscous, with an incomplete white band that 

 covers about 4 segments; tarsi a Httle darkened apically; wings sub- 

 hyaline, the front wing with a pale subapical brown band; extreme 

 apex of first tergite sometimes whitish. 



