142 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Type locality, Maxwell, New Mexico. 



Described from a series reared from Malacosoma fragilis 

 by D. J. Caffrey mider Bureau of Entomology, Maxwell No. 

 16177. 



Type, Cat. No. 20823, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Genus PTINOBIUS 



P. dysphago" Girault, known from the male only, appears to 

 be magnificus. 



TABLE OP FEMALES 



1. Propodeum covered with thimble-like punctures . . . magnificus Ashm. 

 Propodeum smooth, polished 2 



2. Wings with a dusky band from near base of marginal to apex 



of stigmal calif ornicus n. sp. 



Wings with a dusky band from base of marginal almost to apex 

 of wing; a hyaline band, interrupted medially, across wing on 

 apical three-fourths of marginal vein texanus n. sp. 



Ptinobius californicus, new species. 



Female. — Length about 3 mm. Dark green with varying 

 shades of blue and purple especially on abdomen ; face with 

 fine crowded shallow punctures, rear of head with delicate 

 irregular rugulse ; scape testaceous, dark at apex ; flagellum 

 brown ; pronotum and mesonotum irregularly reticulated ; 

 median elevation of metanotum smooth ; propodeum smooth, 

 polished, with a row of pits at base and a strong median carina ; 

 wings subhyaline with a dusky band across forewing extending 

 from just beyond base of marginal vein to apex of stigmal vein ; 

 postmarginal slightly less than half as long as marginal ; 

 stigmal somewhat shorter than postmarginal ; coxae and hind 

 femora greenish, rest of legs reddish testaceous, fore and mid 

 tibia" with a violaceous sheen ; abdomen with delicate rather 

 large reticulations. 



Described from one specimen from Los Angeles, California. 



Type, Cat. No. 20820, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Ptinobius texanus, new species. 



Female. — Length, 3.5 mm. Bronzy green, head and thorax 

 rather finely reticulated with raised lines ; antennae reddish, 



