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Figures 62, 63. — Localities: 62 (left), Dolichomitus vitticras; 63 (right), D. 



pygmaeus 



fused in the other Nearctic species of the genus) ; subgenital plate as 

 in figure 333,1; genitalia as in figure 355. 



Black. Clypeus f ulvof erruginous ; mandible usually stained with 

 ferruginous; front of pedicel and of apical margin of scape, pale yel- 

 lowish; palpi, tegula, and trochanters whitish; extreme hind corner 

 of pronotum fulvous to black; front coxa whitish, fulvous behind; 

 middle coxa fulvous, its apex whitish; front and middle femora ful- 

 vous, whitish apically in front; front and middle tibiae whitish, more 

 or less fulvous or pale brownish behind toward the apex; front tarsus 

 whitish, the apical half of its last segment brownish; middle tarsus 

 fuscous, its basitarsus stramineous basally; hind coxa fulvous; hind 

 femur dark brown, its apical margin stramineous; hind tibia whitish 

 on its basal 0.15, distad of which is an obscure infuscate band that 

 is a little paler below, distad of the fuscous band infuscate but whit- 

 ish below, the apical 0.3 of tibia entirely fuscous; hind tarsus fuscous, 

 the base of its basitarsus pale. 



Female: Front wing 7 to 12 mm. long; face moderately narrow, 

 with rather fine punctures whose interspaces are about 1.4 their 

 diameter; temple unusually long and swollen; propodeum rather 

 long, a little rugulose near its median carinae and beyond the mid- 

 dle, its punctures rather small and sparse, the sublateral punctures 

 separated by about their diameter; median longitudinal carinae of 

 propodeum rather strong, moderately divergent, extending about 0.75 

 the length of propodeum; hind femur about 5.2 as long as deep; first 

 tergite about 1.75 as long as wide; second tergite about 1.2 as long 

 as wide ; ovipositor sheath about 1 .45 as long as front wing. Structure 

 otherwise as described for female of D. californicus. 



