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much as in striatella, but the outer lobe is not so broad as in the 
latter, and the sagittae or median part somewhat different. 
This species varies in size from 6 to 9 mm. 
Type 1¢, 1916; numerous paratypes; all from College of Agri- 
culture, Los Banos, 1916-1917. 

De ita 
Fig. 12. Methoca punctata, 9, X 11. 
Methoca punctata, n. sp. (Figs. 3 and 12.) 
Female, type: Length, 7 mm. Head black, thorax red, abdo- 
men black with reddish apex, apex of mandibles dark brown, last 
5 or 6 articles of antennae with brown beneath, coxae reddish, 
tarsi brownish black. Fairly stout for the genus. Manduibles 
bidentate and with large confluent punctures except apically ; cly- 
peus long, subtruncate and consisting of a thinner, more opaque 
and impunctate apical portion and a thicker, more polished basal 
piece armed with a small median tubercle, disc impunctate except 
for the irregular marginal hair punctures ; front with a bitubercu- 
late process above antennae, the front except antennal fossae, 
