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as long as wide; clasper elongate, its apical part rather broadly 

 spatulate. 



Colored like the male of P. decumbens except that the subapical 

 fuscous mark on the hind femur is a little more extensive, occupying 

 about 0.14 the length of the femur. 



Female: Front wing 7.7 to 13.8 mm. long; clypeus about 2.35 as 

 wide as long; nervellus broken near its upper 0.32; first tergite about 

 1.25 as long as wide; ovipositor sheath 1.8 to 3.0 as long as front wing; 

 dorsal part of basal three teeth of ovipositor tip turned forward almost 

 horizontally. 



Black. Clypeus light reddish brown; palpi stramineous; hind 

 corner of pronotum (with a short forward extension along upper mar- 

 gin of pronotum), and tegula, white; coxae fulvous; second trochanters 

 whitish, the second trochanter of hind leg fulvous above; first tro- 

 chanter of front leg whitish in front; femora fulvous, the extreme apex 

 of femora whitish, the hind femur narrowly brownish at base and with 

 a subapical fuscous area that occupies about 0.15 its length; front and 

 middle tibiae fulvous, obscurely varied with whitish and pale fuscous; 

 hind tibia infuscate, a little paler below and its basal 0.2 ± stramin- 

 eous; front and middle tarsi pale brownish, infuscate apically (espe- 

 cially the middle tarsus) ; hind tarsus fuscous, pale at extreme base. 



Figure 45. — Localities for 

 Pimpla spatulata. 



We have seen a short series of males of this species from Finland 

 (Helsinki museum), which differ from Nearctic males in having the 

 long hairs on the costal and subcostal veins a little shorter and less 

 erect. They seem to represent a distinguishable race. European 

 museums doubtless possess females of spatulata in some numbers but 

 these are not easy to distinguish from females of the commoner P. 

 "manifestator." 



Type: <?, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 15, 1938, A. E. Brower (Wash- 

 ington, USNM 63685). 



