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32. Antenna normally 22 to 23 segmented; length 4 to 6 mm.; tarsal claws with 



basal tooth not at all distinct; ovipositor sheaths as long as the body 



30. brevicornis, new species. 

 Antenna normally 25 to 27 segmented; length, 2.5 to 4 mm.; tarsal claws 

 with basal tooth weak but distinct; ovipositor sheaths shorter 



31. tibiator (Provancher). 



33. Temples with a prominent bulge or rounded tubercule; scutellum more or 



less distinctly carinately margined at apex; propodeum with two median 

 longitudinal carinae setting off a long narrow median area; all coxae 

 entirely yellow; wings hyaline; color of the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 varying from entirely black to entirely testaceous 



32. annulipes (Cresson). 



Temples without such a bulge, receding strongly; otherwise, not the above 



combination of characters 34. 



34. Abdomen stout; first abdominal tergite much broader at apex than the sec- 



ond is long; the second tergite broader than long, in the female nearly 

 twice as broad as long, completely polished; color of the abdomen varying 

 from entirely testaceous to black with the second and third tergites pale; 

 face usually more or less testaceous; the superior orbits narrowly ferru- 

 ginous even when the head is otherwise entirely black 



33. carpocapsae Cushman. 

 Abdomen slender; first abdominal tergite not distinctly broader at apex than 

 the second tergite is long; second tergite usually about as long as broad 

 and usually weakly striate; abdomen black, with more or less of the sec- 

 ond tergite usually yellowish; head black, the superior orbits not pale 



34. laticinctus (Cresson) . 



35. Propodeum very finely evenly granular like the first adbominal tergite, and 



without carinae; head, thorax, and abdomen uniformly yellow 



35. immaculatus Gahan. 

 Propodeum more or less rugose, more coarsely sculptured than the first ab- 

 dominal tergite, or with two median longitudinal carinae 36. 



36. Face elongate, subrostriform; head strongly hollowed out behind; thorax 



depressed, hardly higher than broad; propodeum mostly granular, with 

 two conspicuous very slightly divergent median longitudinal carinae; pro- 

 pleura mostly and the metapleura closely granular and oiDaque; antenna 

 normally 26 to 30 segmented; head and thorax black; abdomen black, 

 with the second segment more or less rufous; all coxae black; remainder 



of legs ferruginous 36. rubripes (Cresson). 



Face not subrostriform; head only very slightly hollowed out behind; an- 

 tenna usually more than 30 segmented; at leas tnot agreeing entirely 

 with the above 37. 



37. Posterior femora black or blackish; all coxae, black; head, thorax, and ab- 



domen wholly black, the second abdominal tergite rarely more or less 



brownish __38. 



Posterior femora reddish testaceous 39. 



38. Second and base of third abdominal tergites closely granular and opaque; 



tegulae black; basal segment of all trochanters black; abdomen completely 

 black, the second tergite not at all brownish 



37. nigricoxus (Provancher). 



Second and third tergites polished, the second with a faint suggestion of 



reticulation, and sometimes more or less brown; tegulae yellow; all 



trochanters entirely yellow 38. coleophorae Rohwer. 



