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notum wrinkled, the anterior swelling punctatorugose; forward edge 

 of pronotum without a forward-projecting tooth near its midlength, 

 but at its upper end with a weak toothlike projection; hind coxa 

 above with close transverse ridges and some indistinct punctures; 

 tarsal claws each with three teeth; ovipositor sheath of unique female 

 curled and not measurable, but apparently about 1 .3 as long as fore- 

 wing. 



Black. Clypeus brown laterally; mandible mostly hght brown; 

 fore and middle legs beyond first trochanters brownish ferruginous, 

 paler stramineous brown distally; hind second trochanter and base 

 and apex of hind femur brown; hind tibia dark brown, its ends yellow- 

 ish brown; hind tarsus fulvous; forewing with a fuscous spot below 

 the stigma, a smaller one at the end of the radius, and a very small 

 one on the nervulus; abdomen ferruginous, the basal part of the first 

 segment black, in the female the fifth and following tergites fuscous 

 dorsally, in the male the thnd tergite with a small transverse subapical 

 spot, the fourth tergite with a similar but larger spot, and the fifth 

 and following segments black. 



Type: U. S. N. M. no. 58824, 9, Patricks Creek, Calif., September 14, 

 1916, J. E. Patterson, reared from old cones of Pinus attenuata infested 

 with Paratimia conicola and Chrysophania placida (Washington). 



Paratype: cf, Copper, Calif., June 16, 1915, I. D. Sergent, reared 

 from Paratimia conicola in Pinus attenuata (Washington) . 



12. AULACOSTETHUS CANADENSIS, new species 



Figure 16, / 



Tarsal claws with three teeth; upper side oj hind coxa with transverse 

 wrinkles; frons with rather small, close punctures; head about 0.88 as 

 long as wide. 



Forewdng about 9.5 mm. long; as seen from above, head about 

 0.88 as long as wide; frons with small, rather close punctures; top of 

 head with fine, moderately sparse punctures; as seen from above, 

 temple longer than the eye, moderately convex (fig. 16,/) ; median lobe 

 of mesoscutum without or with weak transverse ridges; ovipositor 

 sheath about 1.35 as long as the forewing. Otherwise structurally 

 similar to A. stigmaterus. 



Colored like A. stigmaterus except as follows: Wing spots averaging 

 a little smaller and paler ; hind tibia fuscous with paler ends ; subapical 

 transverse mark on second tergite a little larger and darker. 



Type: 9, Aweme, "NE," Manitoba, July 13, 1925, "Spruce" 

 (Ottawa). 



Paratypes: cf, 9, same data as the type (Ottawa). 9, Bangor, 

 Maine, July, F. A. Eddy (Cambridge). 9, "Frisland," July 17, 1897 

 (St. Paul). 



