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carina; propodeal punctures rather small, separated by about 1.5 their 

 diameter; ovipositor sheath about 1.25 as long as front wing. 



Black. Scape and pedicel of male in front, palpi, tegula, stripe 

 on upper margin of pronotum extending from hind corner to in front of 

 notaulus, front and middle legs of male, front and middle coxae of 

 female, and hind trochanters of both sexes, whitish, the middle coxa 

 and first trochanter of hind leg of female tinged with fulvous; meso- 

 sternum, mesopleurum except above, mesoscutum except for lateral 

 margin and in female a broad median black stripe, scutellum, post- 

 scutellum, metapleurum of male, and hind corner of metapleurum of 

 female, f ulvof erruginous ; femora and hind coxa fulvous; tibiae 

 fulvous, whitish above, the hind tibia with a narrow subbasal band 

 brownish and its apex fulvous; middle tibia faintly repeating the 

 brownish subbasal band of the hind tibia; tarsi light fulvous, the basal 

 segments whitish above except at the apex. 



Specimens: cf, reared from gall, Camp Creek, Cavecreek, Ariz., 

 L. H. Weld (Washington), d", 89 (including type and para type), 

 reared from Anthonomus grandis thurberiae Stone Cabin Canyon (two 

 of the nine specimens labeled also McCleary's Ranch), Santa Rita 

 Mts., Ariz., Dec. 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1913 (not April 12 and March 12 as 

 reported erroneously in original description), E. A. Schwarz (Wash- 

 ington and Townes). 9, reared from Anthonomus grandis thurberiae, 

 Sawmill Canyon at 4,600 ft., Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., Dec. 5, 1913, 

 Barber and Schwarz (Washington). 9, from bolls of Gossypium 

 thurberi, Rincon Mts., Ariz., "3-11-46," W. KaufTman (Washington). 

 9, from gall of Disholcaspis on Quercus oblongifolia, "Sycamore Flat," 

 Ariz., Dec. 2, 1918, G. Hofer (Washington). 9, San Jose, Costa Rica, 

 July 21, 1926, H. Y. Gouldman (Washington). 9, 10 miles south of 

 Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Dec. 24, 1940, G. E. Bohart (San 

 Francisco). 9, Tlahualilo, Mexico, July 29, 1905, A. W. Morrill 

 (Washington). 2d", 29, intercepted in plant quarantine on avacado, 

 red haw, and wild apple from Mexico, May 7, 1939; July 16, 1942; 

 Oct. 12, 1926; and Nov. 27, 1940 (Washington). 



This species has been taken in southern Arizona, Mexico, and 

 Costa Rica. It has been reared from cynipid galls and from Antho- 

 nomus grandis thurberiae. 



II. GRAPHOLITHAE GROUP 



Mesoscutum practically without hairs; upper 0.4 of pleural suture 

 obsolete; nervellus broken near its lower 0.4; legs ivory white, with 

 dark brown markings more or less as described for C. grapholithae. 



This species group includes the Nearctic C. grapholithae, an unde- 

 termined species from Brazil, and three Antillean species, one of which 

 (C. ferrugineus) reaches southern Florida. 



