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tion; hind tibia brown, its basal 0.15 stramineous and its median 

 0.33 stramineous except below; hind tarsus brown, the segments 

 stramineous at base; abdominal tergites brown, their median rhombic 

 areas darker brown. 



Specimens: cf, Vancouver, B. C, July 9, 1938, W. G. Mathers 

 (Ottawa). 9, Whitehall, Mont., July 11, 1917, H. G. Dyar (Wash- 

 ington). 9, no data (Washington). 9, near Limassol, Cyprus, Nov. 

 15, 1946, Mavroumoustakis (Townes). 



This species has been taken in British Columbia and Montana, and 

 is widespread in Europe. 



2. Zatypota parva (Cresson) 



Figure 324,j 



Glypta? parva Cresson, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 155; 9. Type: 9, 

 Illinois (Philadelphia). 



Front wing of male 3.7 to 4.5 mm. long, of female 3.7 to 5.0 mm. 

 long; clypeus rather narrow, a little projecting, sharply separated 

 from face by a deep groove, its foveae deeply impressed; eye large, 

 bulging; temple weakly convex; upper 0.6 ± of epomia vertical, the 

 ventral 0.4 ± curved obliquely backward onto marginal swelling of 

 pronotum; mesoscutum polished, with very sparse, scattered hairs, 

 the hairs a little denser on front part of its median lobe ; metapleurum 

 polished; propodeum entirely mat but less strongly mat near base; 

 median longitudinal carinae of propodeum lacking, or represented 

 only by faint longitudinal ridges; lateral longitudinal carinae of pro- 

 podeum present only on apical 0.2 ± of propodeum; petiolar area of 

 propodeum not distinctly defined basally; hind femur about 5.75 as 

 long as deep; hair on upper side of hind tarsus about 0.8 as long as 

 depth of tarsus; third segment of hind tarsus about 2.5 as long as deep; 

 nervulus usually distad of basal vein by about 0.35 its length; dis- 

 coidella always present, usually distinctly pigmented; third tergite 

 polished, its grooves with fine longitudinal wrinkles and its rhombic 

 area mat; ovipositor rather abruptly tapered from just basad of 

 middle to apex, its apical 0.4 very slender. 



Black. Rim of antennal socket light brown; mouth parts white; 

 antenna dark brown, its scape and pedicel white except above and 

 base of its flagellum whitish below; propleurum of male, often more 

 or less of propleurum of female, anteroventral part of pronotum of 

 male, often narrow anteroventral margin of pronotum of female, 

 tegula, hind corner of pronotum, mesepimeron, much of prepectus of 

 male, and indefinite spot on mesepisternum next to hind coxa, white 

 or whitish; meso thorax fulvous, blackish near wing base; postscutellum 



