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ward, the pale hind part of pronotum reaching about 0.6 the distance 

 to epomia; tegula pale yellow, its apical half fulvous; subtegular ridge 

 pale yellow; postscutellum and apex of scutellum fulvous yellow; 

 mesopleurum, metapleurum, hind half of mesoscutum, and scutellum 

 ferruginous, the metapleurum under base of hind wing and meso- 

 scutum laterally black; coxae fulvous, the front and middle coxae 

 pale yellowish apically, trochanters fulvous, the front first trochanter 

 pale yellowish above; femora fulvous, the apex of front and middle 

 femora and a tinge on apex of hind femur above, pale yellow; front and 

 middle tibiae and tarsi light fulvous, the tibiae pale yellowish basally; 

 hind tibia with a white stripe covering its dorsal face from almost the 

 extreme base to almost the extreme apex, brownish next to the white 

 stripe, elsewhere fulvous; hind tarsus very pale fulvous, the first four 

 tarsal segments light brown at apex, the fifth segment light brown 

 except basally. 



Type: 9, "Summit Prairie," Oreg., July 23, 1939, Schuh and Gray 

 (Corvallis). 



37. Exochus capnodes, new species 



Figures 179,1; 190,c; 194,i 



Male type: Front wing 3.8 mm. long; combined face and clypeus 

 0.98 as high as wide, rather strongly evenly convex in both vertical 

 and horizontal planes, their punctures moderate sized, moderately 

 strong, on face separated by about 0.5 their diameter, on clypeus a 

 little sparser; interantennal process of type specimen apparently 

 abnormal, with a small, median vertical groove and a small median 

 apical notch, the apical angle about 135 degrees; median swelling of 

 frons moderately strong; hind ocellus separated from eye by about 

 0.86 its long diameter; median 0.6 of clypeal margin weakly concave; 

 mandible with small sparse punctures, of moderate width, its apex 

 unusually wide and its ventral tooth unusually large, though much 

 smaller than upper tooth; costula incomplete; second lateral area of 

 propodeum with hairs on its lateral third; hind femur 2.30 as long as 

 deep; front spur of hind tibia 2.3 as long as wide; punctures on second 

 abdominal tergite moderately small, not strong, the sublateral ones 

 with interspaces about 0.7 their diameter, the median ones somewhat 

 sparser. 



Black. Face yellow, brown along its lower margin; no pale spot at 

 top of eye; clypeus dark brown with an indefinite yellowish apico- 

 lateral area; mouth parts stramineous; tegular brown with a large 

 basal yellow spot; trochanters and front and middle coxae brown; 

 front femur brown, paler in front, its apex brownish yellow; front 

 tibia and tarsus light brown, yellowish basally; middle femur brown, 

 its apex brownish yellow; middle tibia brownish yellow on basal half, 



