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17. Xorides (Xorides) neoclyti (Rohwer) 



Figures 313,i; 315,d; 316,g 



Moerophora neoclyti Rohwer, 1915, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 49, p. 223; o". 

 Type: d", Santa Catalina Mts., Ariz. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 7 to 9.5 mm. long, of female 11 to 12.5 mm. 

 long; top of head with weak, transverse rugulae. Otherwise struc- 

 turally similar to X. maudae. 



Abdomen, propodeum, and metapleurum dull brownish ferruginous, 

 the rest of body and appendages blackish to fuscoferruginous; front 

 orbit, usually a spot or stripe on subtegular ridge, and basal 0.1 of 

 tibiae, ivory; female flagellum with a white band coveiing about 

 2.5 of its segments; front wing with a small brownish cloud centered 

 on intercubitus and another centered over junction of basal vein and 

 nervulus with medius, these clouds distinct in female, faint in male. 



Specimens: 9, Fort Grant in the Pinaleno Mts., Ariz., July 15 to 

 19, 1917 (Townes). d\ Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., 

 Apr. 10, 1947, H. K. Townes (Townes). d", Oak Creek Canyon, 

 Ariz., May 21, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). cf (type), reared 

 from Neoclytus caprea in Quercus arizonica, Santa Catalina Mts., 

 Ariz., Nov. 17, 1913, Morris and Chrisman (Washington) . 9, Verde 

 River, Ariz., June 25, 1902, Oslar (Ithaca). 9, Arizona (Washington). 

 9, reared on Juniperus scopulorum, Ute Pass, Colo., May 31, 1916, 

 G. Hofer (Washington). 9, Tajique, N. Mex., June 25, 1941, R. H. 

 Beamer (Lawrence), cf , reared, no locality (Washington). 



This species is known from Arizona, New Mexcio, and Colorado. 



VI. STIGMAPTERUS GROUP 



Large species with body unusually slender; occipital carina broadly 

 interrupted above; top of head with small, close punctures and a 

 tendency toward transverse rugulosity; temple with moderate sized, 

 rather dense punctures, its lower two-thirds obliquely striatorugulose 

 (fig. 316,h); hypostomal carina very high; a carina extending dorsad 

 on temple from hind corner of mandible, somewhat parallel to 

 occipital carina, the carina fading out dorsally into strong acicula- 

 tions; temple near hypostomal carina with some coarse irregular 

 wrinkling paralleling hypostomal carina; tooth at upper end of epomia 

 moderate; areolet elongate ovoid, its basal end open; median longi- 

 tudinal carinae of propodeum approximate but separate at base of 

 areola (figs. 315,e,f); front tibia of female strongly swollen, cylindric 

 except on its basal 0.25; front face of tibia with numerous spinelike 

 bristles (fig. 313,j); bristles in comb on front of apex of front tibia 

 short, rather weak; first tergite moderately slender to very slender, 

 moderately curved basally, with a faint dorsolateral oblique groove 



