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formly but sparsely covered by rather long setae; frontal tentorial 

 pits located slightly ventrad and laterad of antennal bases ; width of 

 malar space slightly less than one-third height of compound eye; 

 frontogenal suture almost straight; combined widths of compound 

 eyes almost equal to interocular width at level of antennal bases; 

 left mandible with two teeth, right with three ; diameter of posterior 

 ocellus three-sevenths interocellar width. 



Dorsum of thorax shallowly and irregularly pitted, punctures lack- 

 ing along anterior margin of mesopraescutum, areas between pits 

 minutely reticulated; pubescence long, dense at posterior margin of 

 pronotum, on meson and at posterior margin of mesopraescutum, 

 parapsidal furrows, and lateral margins of mesoscutellum ; antero- 

 lateral angles of pronotum slightly carinate, anterior dorsal margin 

 with a minute carina which is interrupted on mesal one-third; pa- 

 rapsidal furrows distinct; only a small triangular area of prepectus 

 visible at anterolateral angles of mesoscutum; mesoscutellum with a 

 very narrow apical lamina; metepisternum thickly punctured and 

 densely covered by long setae; metacoxa almost glabrous on outer 

 dorsal and inner surfaces, elsewhere shallowly punctured and setose; 

 metafemur with outer surface minutely reticulated, densely covered 

 by short setae ; outer ventral margin with 12 to 15 small teeth, basal 

 one slightly larger than others ; blunt inner tooth present. 



Propodeum with strong mesal and apical carinae, elsewhere mi- 

 nutely shagreened, a small tooth present at each posterolateral angle, 

 spiracular openings vertical; petiole short, only one and one-half 

 times as long as wide, dorsal surface glabrous, basal lamina narrow, 

 short lateral carinae present near base; gaster one-fourth to one- 

 third longer than metafemur, abdominal segments 5 to 7 each with 

 a pair of lateral patches of setae, segments 4 to 7 each with a double 

 row of setae on dorsal surface; eighth tergite minutely reticulated, 

 covered by rather long pubescence, spiracular openings round; epi- 

 pygium conspicuously setose, cerci oval, situated near posterior mar- 

 gin of epipygium; apex of ovipositor sheaths with dense, short, 

 ventral setae. 



Male : 4 mm. Antennal scape (fig. 9, c) slightly shorter than in 

 female; width of malar space one-third height of compound eye; 

 combined widths of compound eyes equal to interocular space; inner 

 tooth of metafemur small, obscure; petiole twice as long as wide. 



Type locality. — California. 



Types. — Holotype, female, Saticoy, Calif., November 29, 1930, ex 

 Gnorimoschema sp. pupa on Solanum; allotype, male, Childress, Tex., 

 September 9, 1908, ex Gnorimoschema sp. pupa from stem of Polyg- 

 onum pennsylvanicum, Hunter No. 1082, E. S. Tucker; paratypes, 

 Brownsville, Tex., November 19, 1911, in pasture in southern Texas 

 gardens, 1 female, November 23, 1910, sweeping on Indian Plains, 



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