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4. RHYDINOFOENUS VISALIAE (Bradley), new combination 



Foenus visaliae Bkadlet, Deutsche Ent, Zeitschr., 1909, p. 40. Type: 9 , 

 Claremont, Calif. (Ithaca). 



Occipital carina very high, weakly reilexed, not wrinkled hasally; 

 lateral lobe of mesoscutum with a few rather small punctures. 



Forewing about 5.5 mm. long; top of head with very fine close 

 punctures and a suggestion of fine transverse wrinkling ; temple nearly- 

 flat; head about 0.39 as wide at the occipital carina as at the eyes; 

 occipital carina not distinctly separated from the head which merges 

 with it gradually, weakly reflexed, about 0.25 as wide as the flagellum, 

 basally with very fine punctures ; propleurum about 1 .4 as long as the 

 width of the mesoscutum, with close fine punctures and more or less 

 transversely or irregularly rugulose; lateral lobe of mesoscutum pol- 

 ished, or in the female more often mat, smooth, finely punctate or 

 rugosopunctate and with some scattered larger punctures; ovipositor 

 sheath about 2.4 as long as the forewing. 



Blackish. Mandible, apical part of clypeus, and tegula ferruginous 

 to brownish ferruginous; fore and middle legs ferruginous to dark 

 brown, their tibiae with an external white stripe from base to apex, or 

 this stripe sometimes reduced to basal and apical marks ; fore and mid- 

 dle tarsi partly white; hind coxa sometimes more or less ferruginous; 

 hind tibia with a conspicuous subbasal white mark; hind tarsus of 

 female extensively marked with white, usually with the second, third, 

 and most of the fii"st segments white ; hind tarsus of male sometimes 

 marked with white; abdomen with the apical part of the second to 

 fifth segments more or less ferruginous, more broadly and brightly 

 so on the sides than above. Often the ground color itself of the second 

 to about the sixth tergites is dusky ferruginous. An occasional female 

 may have the mesepimeron and part of the pronotum ferruginous. 

 Apical 0.2 ± of ovipositor sheath white. 



Specimens. — cf , Patagonia, Ariz., July 1936, E. S. Ross (New York), 

 cf. Coffee Creek in Trmity County, Cahf., June 19, 1934 (Bohart). 

 cT, on Compositae, Murphys, 2,500 feet, Calaveras County, Calif., 

 September 8, 1937, F. E. Blaisdell (San Francisco), d", "Pom" 

 [=? Pomona, Calif.] (Cambridge), cf, Riverside, Calif., May 5, 



1935, A. L. Melander (Cambridge). 9, Riverside, Calif., May 23, 



1936, C. Dammers (Washington). 9, Sobre Vista, Sonoma County, 

 Calif., July 10, 1913, J. A. Kusche (Townes). cf , 10 miles south of 

 The Dalles, Oreg., June 15, 1938, Gray and Schuh (Corvallis). 2 cf, 

 9, on Polygonum, Brownsville, Tex., March 19, 1908, Jones and Pratt 

 (Washington and Townes). cf , Agua Verde, Baja California, Mexico, 

 May 26, 1921, E. P. Van Duzee (Townes). cf , Big Canyon, Sierra 

 Laguna, Baja California, Mexico, October 13, 1941, Ross and Bohart 

 (San Francisco). 9, Guadalupe Point, Concepcidn Bay, Gulf of 

 California, Mexico, June 17, 1921, E. P. Van Duzee (San Francisco). 



