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Froiitovertex orange yellow, with the occipital margin dusky ; 

 face, cheeks and sides of head yellowish white, the cheeks slightly 

 dusky on the sides ; the face with a narrow, dark brown band on 

 each side connecting the lower corner of the eye with the base 

 of the antenna ; occiput dilute blackish brown ; the notum of 

 thorax and apical half of abdomen above and below brownish 

 black, the lateral margin of mesoscutum and the axillae pale 

 orange yellow, the metanotum, propodeum, metapleura and basal 

 half of the dorsum of abdomen pale brown ; underparts of thorax 

 otherwise yellowish white, and most of the basal half of the venter 

 dusky white. Antennae dark brown, the scape with a white 

 triangular spot on the outer and inner surface beginning almost 

 at the base, not quite reaching the dorsal margin but reaching 

 to the middle on the ventral margin, with a narrow, oblique, 

 curved band running from the dorsal margin a trifle beyond the 

 middle to the ventral margin just before the apex. Legs yellow- 

 ish white, the middle coxae dark brown, the fore and hind tibiae 

 on dorsal margin, all femora on dorsal margin at apex, and the 

 fore and hind tarsi, pale brownish or dusky, the middle tibiae 

 and tarsi very dilute brownish yellow with the first tarsal joint 

 and the spur whitish. Wings hyaline, the veins brown. Pubes- 

 cence of thorax pale brown and inconspicuous. 



Described from two females (type and paratype) reared from 

 Pseudocaccus ryani (Coquillett), Pasadena. California (C. P. 

 Clausen), Clausen no. 56. 



Tanaomastix abnormis (Girault) 



Fig. 7, B 



Lepfomas1i.r sp. Viereek, Monthly Bulletin, Cal. State Comm. Hort., 



vol. 4, p. 208, fig. 36-38, April, 1915. 

 Paraleptomastix abnormis Girault, Entomologist, vol. 48, p. 184, 



August, 1915. 

 Paraleptomastix abnormis H. S. Smith, Jour. Econ. Ent., vol. 10, 



p. 262-68, figs. 9-13, pis. 13-14, April 21, 1917. 



As compared with T. claripcnnis this species has the fronto- 

 vertex no wider than long, the face longer than wide, with the 

 facial ridge more elevated, the antennae (fig. 7, B) much slen- 

 derer, each funicle joint being about three times longer than 

 thick, and the middle tibial spur considerably longer. It has 

 about the same coloration, excepting the following points: the 

 frontovertex paler orange yellow, the face without dark marks, 

 the notum of thorax varying from dark to pale brown, the base 



