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moderately long; metapleurum polished, its hind 0.5 with rather 

 small punctures that are separated by about 2.5 their diameter; sub- 

 metapleural carina present only on front third of metapleurum; pro- 

 podeum short, in profile its basal 0.35 convex, the apical 0.65 approxi- 

 mately flat; propodeum polished, its punctures moderately fine, with- 

 out median longitudinal carinae; nervellus broken near its lower 0.33, 

 the discoidella rather weak; hind tibia about 1.05 as long as hind 

 femur; first tergite about 1.05 as long as wide, its median longitudinal 

 carinae distinct only near its base; second tergite polished, with sharp, 

 medium-sized punctures that are separated by about their diameter; 

 ovipositor of moderate stoutness, its basal 0.55 straight, its apical 

 0.45 upcurved. 



Black. Very short orbital marks at top of eye and opposite antennal 

 socket, longer orbital mark on frons (sometimes connected with orbital 

 mark at top of eye), sometimes spot just below antennal socket, 

 clypeus, maxilla, labium, tegula, stripe on upper margin of pronotum, 

 sometimes subtegular ridge, apex of scutellum, and postscutellum, 

 white; antenna blackish brown, paler beneath; mesosternum, meso- 

 pleurum except large quadrate mark above, side lobes of mesoscutum, 

 scutellum, and metapleurum, fulvous, the prepectus black except on 

 its upper ends; front leg ivory, the femur fulvous behind and the 

 tarsus pale fulvous; middle leg fulvous, the coxa apically, trochanters, 

 femur apically and in front, and tibia above except toward apex 

 white, the base of the tarsal segments pale fulvous or whitish; hind 

 coxa, trochanters, and femur fulvous, the second trochanter and apex 

 of femur whitish; hind tibia whitish, its apical 0.3, its lower edge, and 

 a suggestion of a narrow incomplete subbasal band brown or brownish 

 fulvous; hind tarsus light brown, the segments darker at apex and 

 paler at base. 



Specimens : 29 (type and paratype) reared from spider nest, Moun- 

 tain View, Calif., July 1898, Earhorn (Washington). 9, Salmon Arm, 

 B. C, Aug. 1, 1925, A. A. Dennys (Ottawa). 



This species has been collected in California and British Columbia. 



6. Clistopyga manni Cushman 



Clistopyga manni Cushman, 1921, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 60, art. 4, p. 12; ? . 

 Type: 9, Pacific Grove, Calif. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 3.8 to 4.0 mm. long, of female 4.0 to 6.9 mm. 

 long; body rather slender; temple of male without a transverse ridge 

 near lower corner of eye; temple rather flat, in profile about 0.35 as 

 long as eye; epomia rather short; metapleurum polished, its hind 

 0.3 to 0.7 with very fine, weak punctures; submetapleural carina 

 present only on front third of metapleurum; propodeum moderately 

 long, moderately convex longitudinally, rather strongly convex trans- 



