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16. Coccygominius punicipes (Cresson) 



Figure 327,h 



Pimpla punicipes Cresson, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 25, 



p. 398; ?. Type: ?, Orizaba, Mexico (Philadelphia). 

 Pimpla feralis Cresson, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 25, p. 399 ; 



d*. Type: d\ Orizaba, Mexico (Philadelphia). 

 Pimpla hawaiiensis Cameron, 1887, Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc, 



ser. 3, vol. 10, p. 239; o". Type: d\ Oahu, Hawaii (London). 

 Pimpla puniceipes Dalla Torre, 1901, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 3, p. 446. 



Emendation. 



Male: Front wing 3.8 to 7.0 mm. long; epipleura of second, third, 

 and fourth tergites respectively about 2.2, 2.2, and 1.7 as long as wide. 



Black. Labial palpus stramineous; maxillary palpus white; tegula 

 white; front coxa blackish, its apical 0.3 ± fulvous; front leg beyond 

 coxa fulvous; middle leg fulvous, its tibia with an indistinct paler 

 subbasal band; hind coxa, trochanters, and femur fulvous, the femur 

 without apical infuscation; hind tibia and tarsus black or blackish, 

 the tibia with a submedian whitish band occupying about 0.21 its 

 length; wings subhy aline. 



Female: Front wing 4.7 to 8.7 mm. long; face rather densely punc- 

 tate, submedially the punctures separated by about 0.8 their diameter; 

 temple in profile about 0.5 as long as eye in profile; mesoscutum with 

 moderately dense hairs; lower half of mesopleurum with small punc- 

 tures that are separated by about 1.7 their diameter; metapleurum 

 with small weak punctures that are separated by about 1.5 their 

 diameter, near the hind coxa with weak, fine, oblique wrinkling; front 

 tibia with a rather strong median swelling; epipleura of second, third, 

 and fourth tergites respectively about 2.0, 1.5, and 1.5 as long as 

 wide. 



Black. Labial palpus dark brown; maxillary palpus light brown; 

 tegula ivory, its apex brown, usually about half white and half dark 

 brown; legs uniformly fulvous, the front coxa blackish basally and 

 the tarsi brownish apically; wings faintly infuscate. 



Specimens: d\ Brownsville, Tex., J. C. Bridwell (Washington) 

 9, Brownsville, Tex., 1929 (Washington), d", reared from Malachra 

 capitata, Brownsville, Tex., Nov. 16, 1942, Shiller (Washington). 

 9, Crystal City, Tex., Feb. 4, 1950, J. B. Duncan (Washington). 

 10 cf, Hidalgo, Tex., Dec. 28, 1945, R. H. Beamer (Lawrence). 

 9, Padre Island, Tex., May 29, 1952, K. O'Neill (Washington). 

 29, 10 miles north of Rockport, Tex., Apr. 18, 1952, Michener, 

 Beamers, Wille, and La Berge (Lawrence). Also 35 d 1 , 299 from 

 Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela, and Hawaii. 



This species is in southern Texas and ranges southward into South 

 America. It occurs also in Hawaii. 



