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(0.39) mm. high, shining testaceous yellow with a pair of round brown 

 spots at apex, and covered with short brown appressed hairs. Only 

 extreme apex of apical part of ovipositor visible; in the allotype it is 

 more acutely pointed than in monostigma, and is translucent testaceous 

 yellow. 



Types: Holotype cf (USMN 61718), California, Ontario, 1940, "ex 

 peach," L. D. Christensen. Allotype 9, California, Pasadena, J. M. 

 Aldrich. Paratypes: cf , Arizona, Sedona, June 20, 1938, "foliage," 

 L. D. Christensen; 2 99, California, Banning, "ex peach," L. D. Christ- 

 ensen. (Holotype, allotype, 2 paratypes in USNM; paratype in 

 FML.) 



Tomoplagia deflorata Hering 



Figures 92; 97,/; Plate 19, figure 3 

 Tomoplagia deflorata Hering, 1937, p. 296. 



Belongs to the obliqua group and is readUy distinguished from its 

 allies by the black markings, having two little black spots on the 

 pleura, one on inferior part of ventral pleurotergite and a larger one 

 above hind coxa; by the spotless abdomen in the female; and by the 

 unique pair of small black spots on fifth tergite in male. 



Male (First description of male): Length 4.5 (4.4) mm.; wing 

 4.4 (4.6) mm. long and 2.0 (1.8) mm. wide, 2.2 (2.5) times as long as 

 wide. 



Head entirely pale yellowish ochraceous, sometimes infuscated, 

 0.79 (0.73) mm. long, 1.43 (1.39) mm. wide and 1.13 (1.11) mm. high. 

 Ocelli very clear transparent yellow, nearly whitish. Frons at vertex 

 0.61 (0.59) and at anterior margin 0.41 (0.36) mm. wide, and in median 

 line slightly longer (0.50 (0.45) mm.) than wide at anterior margin. 

 Oral margin of the impressed mesofacial plate raised and slightly 

 prominent. Postpedicel wide-oval, 0.22 (0.18) mm. long and 0.18 

 (0.16) mm. wide, only 1.1 (1.2) times as long as wide; seta brownish 

 black, bare and shining, except the thickened basal part, which is 

 brownish yellow, only 1.5 times as long as postpedicel. Eyes in pro- 

 file slightly more than twice as high as wide, sparsely beset with tiny 

 erect and whitish hairs. Maxillary palpi wide, sickle-shaped. 



Head bristles brownish yellow with golden shine, slightly flattened ; 

 the weak posterior pair of the recurved upper orbital bristles (ors) 

 is shortest, equal in length to the parallel postvertical bristles; an- 

 terior pair of ors slightly longer than the three pairs of the incurved 

 lower orbital bristles; outer verticals and divergent ocellar bristles 

 about the same length and slightly longer than the anterior ors; the 

 relatively short inner verticals the longest of all. One distinct pair 

 of genal bristles present. 



Thorax 2.2 (2.0) mm, long and 1.6 (1.6) mm. wide, ochraceous 

 yellow in ground color; mesonotum densely covered with clear brass- 

 yellow dusting and with short and shining appressed hairs of the same 



