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area and areola confluent; first tergite in female short, its length not 

 twice its apical width, not constricted medianly; with strong carina 

 from spiracle to apex of segment in both sexes; the first three tergites 

 finely wrmkled or granular; base of third tergite in male with a 

 triangular area laterally. Black or dark piceous with some white 

 markings on head and thorax; legs black or black and red; abdomen 

 black, red and black, or entirely red; antenna of male black, of 

 female black or with a faint white annulus. 



XORIDES MAUDAE (Davis). 



Xylonoraus maudae Davis, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 22, 1895, p. 32. 



Type. — ^In the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Notes 

 from type and specimens listed below. 



Washington (Davis); both sexes from Corvallis, Oregon; female 

 from Menlo Park, California, June, 1905 (F. Hornung). 



XORIDES NEOCLYTI (Rohwer). 



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



Type.— C&t. No. 18421, U.S.N.M. Notes from unique male type 

 and female described below. 



Female. — Length of body 14.5 mm.; length of ovipositor 7.5 mm. 

 Postocellar line nearly twice as long as ocellocular line ; third antennal 

 jouit slightly shorter than fourth, fourth and fifth subequal; side of 

 pronotum wrinkled anteriorly, punctured posteriorly; mesepisternum 

 shining with irregular punctures medianly, irregularl}'' wrinkled an- 

 teriorly and posteriorly; first three tergites finely wrinkled. Black; 

 abdomen dark piceous; inner orbits to a line drawn tangent to an- 

 terior ocellus, thirteenth and fourteenth antennal joints and a small 

 spot at base of all tibiae whitish; tarsi piceous. Wings hyaline, a 

 spot around nervulus, one along first abcissa of radius connecting 

 with one around mtercubitus dusky ; venation black. 



Described from one female from Arizona. 



The male is from Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. 



Host. — Neoclytus capraea Say. 



Group FRIGIDTJS. 



Group characters. —Y&cvdl quadrangle much wider than long; face 

 finely Avrinkled; frons shinhig, punctured or finely wrinided; vertex 

 and posterior orbits shining, with at most a few scattered punctures ; 

 postocellar Ime longer than the ocellocular line; antennae of male 

 hairy; pronotum angulate but not dentate; prescutum shining not 

 depressed in middle; scutum laterally shining, medially it and pre- 

 scutum are somewhat wrinkled; propodeum coriaceous, without 

 prominent teeth; costulae present; basal area and areola confluent; 

 nervellus perpendicular or slightly reclivous, broken a little above the 

 middle; first segment rather short, constricted medially, and some- 



