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weak, their interspaces about half their diameter; ovipositor sheath 

 about 1.6 as long as front wing. Structure otherwise as in the female 

 of D. calif ornicus. 



Colored like the female of D. californicus except that entire upper 

 side of front and middle tibiae is whitish. 



Type: 9, Cornell University Campus, Ithaca, N. Y., June 4, 1938, 

 P. P. Babiy (Washington, USNM 63693). 



Paratypes: 9, Lawrence, Kans., May 24, 1941, H. K. Townes 

 (Townes). 9, Aweme, Man., June (Washington). 29, Forest Hills, 

 near Boston, Mass., June 1916, A. M. Wilcox (Washington). 29, 

 Midland Co., Mich., June 16, 1957, R. and K. Dreisbach (Dreisbach). 

 9, Big Indian Valley, Catskill Mts., N. Y., Sept. 1918 (Washington). 

 9, Grand Island, N. Y., June 26, 1910, M. C. Van Duzee (San Fran- 

 cisco), cf, Ithaca, N. Y., June 9, 1916 (Ithaca). 69, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 May 30, 1938, June 3, 1939, June 4, 1938, June 19, 1937, and July 

 1937, P. P. Babiy (Townes). 9, Ithaca, N. Y., June 29, 1947 (Ottawa). 

 9, Ottawa, Ont., May 30, 1941, G. S. Walley (Ottawa). <?, Harris- 

 burg, Pa., June 6, J. N. Knull (Washington). 9, Deschenes, Que., 

 June 23, 1933, G. S. Walley (Ottawa). 9, Hemmingford, Que., June 

 15, 1926, G. H. Hammond (Ottawa). d\ Manchester, Vt., June 8, 

 1910, W. Johnson (Cambridge). 9, Gays Mills, Wis., June 3, 1933 

 (Madison). 



This species occurs in the Alleghanian fauua. 



16. Dolichomitus pygmaeus (Walsh), new combination 



Figures 333,1; 355 



Ephialtes pygmaeus Walsh, 1873, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 3, p. Ill; ? . 

 Type: 9 , ? Illinois (destroyed in Chicago fire of 1871). 



Male: Front wing 5.4 to 6.4 mm. long; face rather narrow, with 

 fine punctures whose interspaces are about 0.8 their diameter; dorsal 

 end of prepectal carina a little above midheight of hind margin of 

 pronotum, curved forward toward front edge of mesopleurum; pro- 

 podeum rather long, with medium-sized scattered punctures; median 

 longitudinal carinae of propodeum rather strong, moderately diver- 

 gent, extending most of the length of propodeum; apex of front coxa 

 on inner side somewhat truncate and with very small, very dense, 

 setiferous punctures; front first trochanter a little flattened below, 

 with very small, very dense punctures; under side of front second 

 trochanter and of base of front femur with moderately small, rather 

 dense punctures; outer side of middle coxa with the punctures toward 

 its base a little denser than elsewhere on the coxa, otherwise unspe- 

 cialized; first tergite about 2.3 as long as wide; second tergite about 

 2.0 as long as wide; eighth and ninth tergites completely fused (not 



