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China; and an undescribed species from the Philippines. The species 

 ornatus and vitosus have not previously been referred to Xorides (new 

 combinations) . 



13. Xorides (Xorides) calidus (Provaricher) 



Xylonomus calidus Provancher, 1886, Additions et corrections au volume n de la 



faune entomologique du Canada traitent des hymtSnopteres, p. 119; 9 • 



Type: 9, Ottawa, Ont, (Quebec). 

 Xylonomus pulcher Ashmead, 1889, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, p. 450; 9 . 



Type: 9, Cadet, Mo. (Washington). 

 Aplomerus nasonii Davis, 1895, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 22, p. 32; c?. Type: 



cf, Algonquin, 111. (Philadelphia). 

 Biology: Blackman and Stage, 1924, Techn. Publ. New York State Coll. 



Forestry, Syracuse Univ., no. 17, p. 180. 



Front wing of male 4.0 to 7.4 mm. long, of female 5.7 to 9.0 mm. 

 long; occipital carina complete above, with a small median dip; temple 

 with rather small punctures that are separated by about 1.5 their diam- 

 eter, its dorsal half otherwise smooth, its ventral half with rather 

 strong oblique striae; first tergite about 2.2 as long as wide in male, 

 about 2.0 as long as wide in female; second tergite with fine rugulosity. 



Male: Blackish brown; frontal orbit (interrupted at antennal 

 socket), sometimes a pair of median blotches on face and occasionally 

 entire face, hind orbit (very wide above and either continuous or 

 broken into a large dorsal and a small ventral spot) , tegula, and some- 

 times subtegular ridge, white; mandible ferruginous; front and middle 

 coxae and trochanters white, the coxae fulvous basally; front and 

 middle femora fulvous, white at base and apex; front and middle 

 tibiae whitish with a narrow subbasal brown band; front and middle 

 tarsi pale stramineous to brown, the base of their basitarsi white and 

 their apical segment fuscous; hind coxa and femur fulvous, the femur 

 with its extreme apex white and a subapical infuscation; hind tro- 

 chanters pale fulvous; hind tibia and tarsus fuscous, the basal 0.2 of 

 the tibia and basal 0.4 ± of the basitarsus white. 



Female: Ferruginous. Head blackish brown; broad frontal orbit 

 (interrupted at antennal socket), hind orbit which is enlarged dorsally 

 into a large spot, and sometimes median area on face, white; clypeus 

 and labrum whitish or light brown; mandible ferruginous, blackish 

 apically; palpi brown; antenna blackish with a white band covering 

 about 5 flagellar segments; propleurum, front part of pronotum, 

 mesonotum and more or less of adjacent sclerites, mesosternum, and 

 often front part of mesopleurum, black or infuscate, the scutellum, 

 tegula, and subtegular ridge white; front coxa dark brown; middle 

 coxa brownish ferruginous; hind coxa ferruginous, a little infuscate 

 apically; trochanters dark brown or partly brownish ferruginous; 

 femora ferruginous with the apex white and a subapical infuscation 

 which is weak on front femur and distinct on hind femur; front and 



