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Host. — Catabena lineolata Walker. 



Tijpe locality. — Los Ang^eles County, Calif, 



Type.— U.S.l^.M. no. 51795. 



Paratypes. — Cornell University; Oregon State Agricultural College. 



Remarks. — Three females and three males (one of the latter without 

 abdomen) including holotype and allotj^pe, reared under Bureau of 

 Entomology no. 174°; one male reared at vSaticoy, Calif., by S. E. 

 Flanders, ostensibly, but very doubtfully, from Carpocapsa pomonella 

 (Linnaeus); one male taken July 5, 1930, at Phoenix, Oreg., by H, A. 

 Scullen; one female from San Juan Capistrano, Calif., July 9, 1930, 

 J. C. Elmore; two females from Felton, Santa Cruz Mountains, 

 Calif., Alay 15-19, 1907, J. C. Bradley; and one female from Priest 

 Valley, Monterey County, Calif., 2,500 feet, August 1927, J. C. 

 Bradley. 



3. EXETASTES CARINATUS, new species 



Female. — Length 10 mm, antennae 8.5 mm. 



Very similar to septum but with temples more strongly receding; 

 cheeks straight; In^postomal carina lower; postocellar line distinctly 

 longer than occllocular line and fulh^ twice the diameter of lateral 

 ocellus; antenna with 46 joints; hind femur extending distinctly 

 beyond apex of abdomen; ovipositor sheath distinctly a little shorter 

 than first tergite. 



Wings hyaline, the front wing with two distinct fuscous fasciae. 



Type locality. — Dimmit County, Tex. 



Type.— U.S.N. M. no. 51796. 



One female taken March 30, 1933, by S. E. Jones. 



4. EXETASTES LASIUS, new species 



Plate 17, Figures 16, 30; Plate 18, Figure 56; Plate 19, Figure 75; Plate 

 20, Figure 79; Plate 21, Figure 118 



Very distinct in form and color and in the sculpture and pilosity of 

 head and thorax, as well as in several structural details. 



Female. — Length 10 mm, antenna 7 mm. 



Head and thorax mat, very finely and densely punctate and with 

 dense silvery pubescence, longest on lower part of head and very short 

 on dorsum of thorax, this sculpture and vestiture also embracing coxae. 



Head very thin medially; temples strongly receding, nearly flat, 

 little more than half as long as short diameter of eye; occiput rather 

 deeply concave; frons moderately concave; face more than twice as 

 broad as long, flat with a small median elevation; clypeus more than 

 twice as broad as long, distinctly divided by differences in slope, 

 sculpture, and color of the basal and apical portions, broadly sube- 

 marginate apically; cheeks in front view nearlj^ straight; malar space 

 about as long as basal width of mandible; mouth as broad as face; 



