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1912, Josef Brunner. 9, ovipositing on pupa of Acanthocinus, Meta- 

 line Falls, Wash., July 3, 1930, DeLeon. 



This species is transcontinental in northern coniferous forests but 

 is much commoner in the West. It is adult throughout the growing 

 season. The hosts are coleopterous borers under the bark of Coniferae. 



Figures 60, 61. — Localities: 60 (left), Dolichomitus foxleei; 61 (right), D. cali- 



fornicus. 



14. Dolichomitus californicus, new species 



Figures 333, j; 353 



Male: Front wing 6.2 to 9.8 mm. long; face of moderate width, 

 with rather small, sharp punctures whose interspaces are about 0.8 

 then* diameter; prepectal carina weak above, often traceable to a 

 little above mid-height of hind margin of pronotum, where it curves 

 forward toward front margin of mesopleurum; propodeum rather long, 

 with rather sparse large punctures, its median longitudinal carinae 

 rather strong, moderately divergent, extending about 0.7 its length; 

 front coxa not specialized; front first trochanter a little concave; 

 under side of front trochanters and of base of front femur with small 

 sharp punctures whose interspaces are about 0.7 their diameter; outer 

 edge of middle coxa with a faint median swelling and a narrow vertical 

 band of moderately dense, fine punctures; first tergite about 2.1 as 

 long as wide; second tergite about 1.7 as long as wide; subgenital 

 plate as in figure 333, j ; genitalia as in figure 353. 



Black. Clypeus and mandible stained with ferruginous; front of 

 scape and pedicel varying from entirely black to entirely whitish; 

 palpi white; tegula and hind corner of pronotum white; front and mid- 

 dle coxae and trochanters white, the coxae fulvous basally behind; 

 front and middle femora fulvous, whitish apically in front; front and 

 middle tibiae and tarsi whitish or very pale fulvous, the tibiae more or 

 less fulvous below and behind, and the middle tarsus brownish apically; 



