REVISION- OF THE GENUS EXETASTES — CUSHMAN 275 



posteriorly, absent anteriorly, spiracles small, elongate, situated far 

 above pleural carinae. 



Legs rather slender; hind femur three-fourths as long as tibia; inner 

 hind calcarium hardly reaching middle of basitarsus; tarsus a little 

 longer than tibia, apical joint shorter than third. 



Wings: Apical abscissa of radius moderately curved at base, barely 

 a half longer than basal abscissa; second discoidal cell rather broad, 

 basal abscissa of subdiscoideus much less than twice as long as second 

 recurrent, which is subgeniculate above ; nervulus postfurcal, strongly 

 inclivous; abscissula much less then twice as long as intercubitella. 



Abdomen poHshed, broad, weakly compressed at apex; first tergite 

 not nearly twice as long as broad at apex; second barely as long as 

 broad at base; ovipositor slightly recurved, sheath a Uttle longer than 

 first tergite. 



Ferruginous with thorax ventrally and sometimes in sutures more 

 or less black; flagellum blackish at base and apex, paler below at base, 

 with a yellowish annulus at about joints 8-13; hind tibia at apex and 

 basitarsus more or less fuscous, joints 2-4 of tarsus more or less 

 yellomsh; wings infumate, front wing with a transverse band below 

 parastigma and base of stigma and a triangular spot beyond stigma 

 hyaline; basal half of stigma yellow, apical half black; ovipositor 

 sheath black. 



Male. — Malar space barely half basal width of mandible; ocelU 

 larger; antennae slender, as long as body, all joints longer than thick; 

 apical carina of propodeum more distinct ; abdomen more slender, first 

 tergite nearly twice as long as broad at apex. Face, clypeus, and 

 mandibles yellow; occiput entirely, vertex and frons medially, black; 

 thorax more extensively black; scutellum yellow; hind tibia broadly at 

 apex and basal and apical joints of tarsus, black; wings hyaline, stigma 

 largely black. 



Type locality. — Indiana. 



Type. — Lost. 



Remarks. — A considerable series including both sexes is before me 

 from Washington, D. C, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Texas as 

 well as Jicoltepec and Baja Cahfomia, Mexico. 



Included are eight females and three males reared under Webster 

 no. 4606, from Feltia malejida Guenee at Mercedes, Tex., by T, D. 

 Urbahns late in April and early in May 1909; one female reared under 

 Chittenden no. 1057, from a noctuid at Brownsville, Tex., by D. K. 

 McMillan on May 25, 1908; one female reared from Agrotis sp. on 

 cabbage at Brownsville, Tex., by D. K. McMillan on January 9, 1909; 

 one female reared from "cutworm", April 4, 1911, at Lyford, Tex.; 

 one male from Bradenton, Fla., February 17, 1927, Truck Crop no. 

 3565, C. O. Bare. Included in the series are specimens in the collec- 

 tion of Kansas University. 



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