ART. 15». REVISION OF SUBFAMILY PLATYGASTEEIXAE^ — FOUTS. 101 



Male. — Length 1.2 mm. Antennae rather slender, dark brown in 

 color; pedicel one and one-half times as long as wide, as wide as but 

 distinctly shorter than, joint five; three nearly as wide as two, two- 

 thirds as long as two, half as long as four; fourth joint wider than 

 the second, about one-half longer than wide, moderately produced 

 below before the apex; joints five to nine nearly twice as long as wide, 

 as wide as the pedicel; ten as long as three and four united, conical, 

 subacute apically; abdomen elliptical, rounded behind, a little shorter 

 than the head and thorax united, slightly less than half as wide as 

 long, narrower than the thorax ; tergites three to seven united nearly 

 as long as the second; wings hyaline, extending the length of the 

 second tergite past the apex of the abdomen. 



Tyjie locality. — ^Hilt, California. 



Other localities. — Colestin and Ashland, Oregon. 



Type. — Cat. No. 25444, U.S.N.M. Three paratypes, one female 

 and two males, in Collection Fouts. 



The type series, consisting of three females and six males, was 

 reared from the cones of Abies concolor and Pinus lamhurtiana. 



More concise data is given in the field notes: Hopk. U. S. 10871*^^, 

 one female and three males from Hilt, California, reared, June 2, 1914, 

 by P. D. Sergent from the cones of Pinus lamhurtiana; Hopk. U. S. 

 125380-, two females and one male from Colestin, Oregon, reared by 

 J. M. Miller from the cones of Abies concolor; Hopk. U. S. 10833", 

 two males from Ashland, Oregon, 4,000 feet (1,220 meters) altitude, 

 reared June 4, 1914, by P. D. Sergent from the cones of Pinus 

 lamhurtiana. 



67. PLATYG ASTER HUACHUCAE (Ashmead), 



Folygnotus kuachucae Ashmead, Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 316. 



Female. — Length 1.3 mm. Head a little over twice as wide as 

 long, moderately emarginate behind, subconvex in front, as wide as 

 the thorax; occiput and cheeks above with fine wavy aciculae; vertex 

 subacute, unsculptured ; interocellar area aciculate laterally; space 

 around lateral ocelli polished ; frons for the most part polished, with 

 faint diagonal aciculae below ; antennae more slender than in vernoniae; 

 pedicel twice as long as wide, about as wide as joints four to six; joint 

 three half as wide as two, a little longer than wide, nearly as long as 

 four, which is two-thirds as long as two; joints five and six equal, 

 slightly longer than four; seven to nine a little longer than wide, 

 slightly wider than six; ten a little longer than three and four united, 

 conical, subacute at tip; thorax broader than in ve7moniae, scarcely 

 higher than wide; pronotum laterally with fine vertically directed 

 aciculae; mesonotum mostly polished, finely shagreened anteriorly; 

 notauli briefly indicated, not reaching the middle of the mesonotum, 



