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Many together on leaf. 
Paired at base of blade of leaf; extending from middle to edge. 
9. resinicola n. sp. 
Distributed irregularly along blade on either side of midrib, rarely on edge 
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1. Pontania cressoni new species. 
Female.—Length4.5mm.; not very robust; clypeus deeply emarginate; 
lobes small, pointed; ocellar basin distinctly defined, breaking rather 
broadly into prominent antennal fovea; antennze normal, third joint 
a little longer than fourth; sheath acuminate, emarginate beneath; 
claws deeply cleft; venation normal, except that outer veins of discal 
cells of posterior wings are interstitial. Color black, shining, including 
pronotum, orbits, and femora; tegulwe, mouth parts, tibiew and tarsi pale, 
more or less infuseated, especially at tips of posterior tibie and their 
tarsi; wings nearly hyaline; stigma and costa brown, the former hyaline 
at base. 
One female, Washington. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) 
2. Pontania parva Cresson. 
1880. Nematus parvus Cresson. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., vi, p. 5. 
Female.—Length 3.5 to 4 mm.; not robust; clypeus shallowly and 
broadly exavated; lobes short, minute; mouth parts with very long and 
rather numerous light hairs; lateral furrows of vertex very broad and 
deep; ocellar basin distinctly defined; frontal crest indistinct, broken by 
the broad, oval, deeply excavated antennal fovea; antennze very slender, 
joints 4 and 5 as long as or longer than 3; sheath strongly acuminate at 
tip, circularly emarginate beneath, rounded above; cerci tapering; claws 
small, deeply and finely notched, rays almost parallel; venation normal. 
Color black, shining; mouth parts, spot beneath antennz, outer third of 
pronotum, tegulie, apices of coxe, trochanters, and legs for the most part 
yellowish; upper and lower margins of femora, tips of tibiz, particularly 
