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adjacent; notaulus very weak anteriorly, stronger medially, extending 

 about 0.33 the distance to scutellum; apical transverse carina of 

 propodeum sharp, obsolescent, or weak medially and next to pleural 

 carma, sublaterall}^ making a moderately strong crest; propodeum 

 wi'inkled near to and apicad of its apical transverse carina; second 

 tergite strongly mat, with fine, adjacent punctures; ovipositor tip as 

 in L. deserti (fig. 329,d). 



Brownish ferruginous, or sometimes paler ferruginous. Flagellum 

 dark brown, with a pale j^ellow band that covers 5 to 7 segments; 

 often median part of occiput, more or less of thoracic sutures, and 

 always basal 0.35 ± of third tergite black; tegula sometimes infuscate; 

 front coxa and trochanters sometimes weakly infuscate; middle and 

 hmd coxae and trochanters usually more or less infuscate; hind femur 

 and tibia fulvo ferruginous to dark brown; hmd tarsus pale fulvous, 

 its fifth segment and basal 0.7 ± of fii^st segment fulvous to dark 

 brown; wings yellow, the front wing banded with brown as in figure 

 345, the hind wing brownish medially and apically; basal 0.6 ± of 

 fii'st abdominal segment and basal 0.3 d: of second abdominal segment 

 more or less infuscate. 



The female recorded below from the Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., has 

 an unusually pale ground color (fulvoferruginous) and the fuscous 

 or blackish markings unusually pale and restricted. It seems to 

 represent a pale-colored race of southwestern United States. 



Type: 9, on grass, Brownsville, Tex., Jan. 21, 1954, Brown (Wash- 

 mgton, USNM 63787). 



Paratypes: cf , Nogales, Ai-iz., Aug. 7, 1946 (Ottawa), cf , 5 miles 

 west of Portal, Chiricahua Mts., Ai'iz., Aug. 7, 1956, R. M. Bohart 

 (Davis). 9, Santa Rita Mts., 5,000 to 8,000 ft., Ariz., July, F. H. Snow 

 (Townes). 6", Austin, Tex., Apr. 12, 1902, A. L. Alelander (St. Paul). 

 9, The Basm, Big Bend National Park, Tex., May 29, 1959, H. F. 

 Howden and E. C. Becker (Ottawa), cf. Black Gap Refuge Head- 

 quarters in West Texas near Big Bend National Park, May 16, 1959, 

 H. F. Howden and E. C. Becker (Ottawa), 9, Corpus Christi Lake, 

 Tex., March 28, 1952, D. J. and J. N. Knull (Columbus), cf , Dugout 

 Wells at 3,500 ft.. Big Bend National Park, Tex., May 13, 1959, 

 J. F. McAlpine (Ottawa). 9, Dugout Wells at 3,000 ft.. Big Bend 

 National Park, Tex., May 13, 1959, W. R. M. Mason (Ottawa), 

 cf , 9, Kerrville, Tex., April 5 and 16, 1959, W. R. M. Mason (Ottawa), 

 cf , Kerrville, Tex., April 4, 1959, H. F. Howden and E. C. Becker 

 (Ottawa). 9, "Neuecest," Tex., Apr. 26, 1896, Marlatt (Washmgton). 

 9, Oak Spring at 4,000 ft.. Big Bend National Park, Tex., May 2, 1959, 

 H, F. Howden and E. C. Becker (Ottawa). 9, Morelia, Mexico, 

 R. and K. Dreisbach (Dreisbach). 9, 17 kilometers southeast of 

 Oaxaca, 1,610 m., Mexico, July 8, 1953, University of Kansas Expedi- 



