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Collection dates are evenly distributed through the growing season, 

 the earlier and later ones being: March 26 at Pasadena, Calif. ; April 3 

 at Davis, Calif.; April 16 at Covina, Calif, and at Sacramento, Calif.; 

 October 23 at Barino, N. Mex.; and December 13 at Sacramento, 

 Calif. We have found the species in grass in the damper spots of 

 semidesert areas. 



Rearing records comprise 2 rearings from Malacosoma sp., 1 rearing 

 or reared lot each from Diacrisia virginica, Carpocapsa pomonella, 

 Hemerocampa vetusta, Hemileuca sp., Malacosoma fragile , Prochoerodes 

 forficaria, Tholeria reversalis, Zophodia sp., and 1 lot (the type and 

 some of the paratypes) from a host on Abies concolor. 



This subspecies occurs in the Transition, Upper Austral, and Lower 

 Austral zones of the West, mostly in dry areas. It parasitizes a 

 variet}^ of medium-sized Lepidoptera. 



10. Coccygoniimus marginellus (Brulle) 



Pimpla marginella Brull£, 1846, in Lepeletier, Histoire naturelle des insects, 

 hymenopteres, vol. 4, p. 107; 9 . Type: 9 , Cuba (Paris). 



Front wing 4.5 to 8.0 mm. long; temple short, in a medium-sized 

 female its profile about 0.4 as long as eye in profile; cheek short, in a 

 medium-sized female about 0.85 as long as basal width of mandible; 

 metapleurum with dense small punctures and hairs posteriorly and in 

 its upper front corner, with moderately dense small punctures and 

 hairs along its upper edge, the rest of its surface smooth and hairless. 



Fulvoferruginous. Pedicel reddish brown; flagellum brown, reddish 

 brown basally; palpi brown; extreme hind corner of pronotum white; 

 tegula white, its apical 0.5 ± dark brown; pleura tinged with white next 

 to coxal attachments; first seven tergites black with an apical broad 

 white band, the basal half of first tergite more or less ferruginous; 

 abdomen of male blackish beyond seventh tergite, of female fulvo- 

 ferruginous beyond sixth tergite, except for the apical white band on 

 seventh tergite. 



Specimens: 2 c?, 9, Paradise Key, Fla., Apr. 9 and 12, 1951, H. and 

 M. Townes (Townes). d", 39, Matheson Hammock, Fla., Apr. 9 and 

 11, 1951, H. and M. Townes (Townes). Also: 13 <? , 119, from Cuba, 

 Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Our collections were from the undergrowth 

 of the mixed hardwood forests known in Florida as "hammock." 



This species occurs in southern Florida and the West Indies. 



IV. AEQUALIS GROUP 



Front wing 3.2 to 9.5 mm. long; bod}^ stout; nervulus interstitial or 

 briefly postfurcal; hind tibia usually with a submedian pale band; 

 propodeum rather short, rounded, most of it densely punctate and 

 often also with some fine transverse wrinkling; median longitudinal 



