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punctures coarse and strong, their interspaces about 0.3 their diameter; 

 point of interantennal process with an angle of about 95 degrees; 

 median swollen area of frons very weakly defined; clypeus very wide, 

 its apical margin broadly but weakly concave; mandible heavy, its 

 outer face closely punctate, tapered uniformly to a broad apex, the 

 two teeth only a little unequal; hind ocellus separated from eye by 

 about 1.0 its long diameter in male, by about 1.4 its long diameter in 

 female; temple more roundly swollen than in any other member of the 

 tibialis group, the head about as wide across midlength of temples as 

 across eyes; flagellum of female short and blunt-tipped, its post- 

 median segments wider than long; costula incomplete; second lateral 

 area of propodeum bare or with a few hairs basally and apicolaterally; 

 hind femur about 2.25 as long as deep in male, about 2.15 as long as 

 deep in female; front spur of hind tibia about 3.3 as long as wide in 

 male, about 3.6 as long as wide in female; punctures of second tergite 

 rather coarse, sharp, and dense, sublaterally their interspaces about 

 equal their diameter, medially their interspaces about 1.3 their 

 diameter; apex of male clasper tapered to a blunt point. 



Black. Palpi brown; a small brown spot at top of eye; tegula 

 brown; legs beyond first trochanters uniformly dark fulvous. 





Figures 127, 128. — Localities: 127 (left), Exochus evetriae; 128 (right), E. hiulcus. 



Specimens: 2cf, reared from Barbara colfaxiana, Coeur d'Alene, 

 Idaho, May 24, 1935, H. J. Rust (Washington). 39, reared from hosts 

 on Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Ashland, Oreg., 1913 and 1915, F. P. Keen 

 and J. E. Patterson (Washington). 9, reared from host in Polyporus 

 dryophilus, Applegate River, Oreg., 1916, J. E. Patterson (Wash- 

 ington) . 9 (type), reared from pupa of Barbara colfaxiana siskiyouana, 

 Butte Falls, Oreg., J. M. Miller and P. D. Sargent (Washington). 

 5 c?, reared from pupae of B. colfaxiana taxifoliella, Grants Pass, 



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