138 INSECUTOR INSCltl^ MENSTRUUS 



Townsendiella, new genus. 



Mandibles simple, labrum triangular, wider than long; rear 

 of occiput with a carina interrupted medially; labial palpi 

 4- jointed, the first joint over three times as long as the second 

 and about twice as long as joints 2-4 combined ; maxillary palpi 

 6-jointed, the first joint very short ; the second longest ; third 

 and fourth subequal, shorter than second ; fifth about half as 

 long as fourth; sixth slightly shorter than fifth; tongue elon- 

 gate, broadly linear, almost as long as the labial palpi ; axillae 

 not toothed ; scutellum slightly bilobed ; marginal cell obliquely 

 truncate at apex ; first cubital cell one and one-half times as 

 long as the second ; first recurrent vein at base of second cubital 

 cell (interstitial) ; second about one-third the length of second 

 cubital cell from its apex ; claws of female cleft, flattened. 



Townsendiella pulchra, new species. 



female. — Length about 5.5 mm. Head and thorax black, 

 abdomen red ; head rather finely, closely punctured, the punc- 

 tures on face crowded, those on clypeus becoming finer apically, 

 the apical margin of clypeus smooth, reddish ; labrum and man- 

 dibles, except apices, reddish ; head covered with dense white, 

 densely plumose pubescence, that on face above antennae 

 brownish ; antennas rather long, not thickened apically, reddish 

 beneath ; mesonotum closely punctured, covered with brownish 

 plumose pubescence ; pubescence on the margins of mesoscutum 

 and of scutellum, that on metanotum, propodeum, pleurae and a 

 short median line on mesoscutum, together with two lateral 

 lines at front of mesoscutum, white ; propodeum with a delicate 

 median carina ; triangle at base of propodeum without 

 pubescence and with an almost granular sculpture ; tubercles 

 and tegulae reddish ; wings dusky apically ; veins brown, stigma 

 darker ; legs reddish, femora dusky at bases ; coxae brown ; 

 abdomen closely punctured, base of first segment and apical 

 margins of first four segments with strong bands of appressed 

 white pubescence ; rest of surface of segments with short light 

 golden hairs ; fifth segment with apical margin smooth, brown ; 

 pygidial area sharply defined, broad, apex broadly rounded. 



