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a little more than twice its own diameter from eye margin; malar 

 space a little shorter than eye; clypeus very finely rugulose, its an- 

 terior margin straight ; supraclypeal area longer than broad, polished 

 medially below. Thorax alveolately punctate, the sculpture on scapu- 

 lae a little weaker than on prescutum ; parapsidal grooves and sutures 

 at base of scutellum weakly foveated; scutellum without a median 

 depression, the transverse furrow and lateral grooves weakly foveo- 

 late ; propodeum evenly alveolate, without carinae, the spiracular sulci 

 and posterior margins of propodeum foveated ; pleura sculptured like 

 dorsum, except that the upper half of mesepimeron and the meta- 

 pleura are for the most part smooth. Wings weakly ciliated, bare 

 basally and in the costal cell; stigmal vein short, about as broad as 

 long. Coxae outwardly sculptured like pleura. Abdominal petiole 

 very little longer than broad and finely punctate; gaster smaller 

 than thorax, smooth ; second sternite not seen. 



Male. — Length 2.2 mm. More slender than the female; flagellum 

 a little longer, the funicle joints after the first very slightly longer than 

 broad ; lateral ocellus not over twice its own diameter from eye margin ; 

 abdominal petiole about four times as long as broad, about one and 

 one-half times as long as hindcoxae ; gaster much smaller than thorax. 

 Scape metallic ; head and thorax strongly tinted with coppery. Other- 

 wise like the female. 



Type locality. — Albuquerque, N. Mex. 



ry/?e.— U.S.N.M. No. 53560. 



Described from 3 females (one holotype) and 5 males (one allotype) 

 collected by T. D. A. Cockerell, August 16, 1895, on Bigelovia. Two 

 of these females numbered 4613 and 4614, respectively, and two males 

 numbered 4611 are considerably greener in color than the holotype 

 and allotype but otherwise seem to be the same. 



In addition to the above series, the collection contains 2 specimens 

 swept by C. N. Ainslie at Sioux City, Iowa ; 1 specimen taken by H. C. 

 Knutson, August 7, 1934, in Iowa (Co. 43) ; 12 specimens collected by 

 C. F. Baker at Fort Collins, Colo., by miscellaneous sweepings in June 

 1894 and June 1895 ; and 1 specimen collected by E. A. Schwarz in the 

 Santa Rita Mountains in Arizona in July ( ?1898). One female taken 

 at Belen, N. Mex., August 19, 1927, by P. A. Readio, and 1 female from 

 Barton County, Kans., collected by S. G. Hunter were also identified 

 as this species and returned to the University of Kansas. All these 

 specimens may be considered paratypes. 



ORASEMA VIRIDIS Ashmead 



Orasema viridis Ashmead, Proc. California Acad. Sci., vol. 5, p. 553, 1895. 



Ora^ema viridis was originally described from one specimen col- 

 lected in Tepic, Mexico. The type is believed to have been destroyed 



