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interspaces. Ovipositor: tip 0.18-0.20 as high at notch as long from 
notch to apex. 
Male. Differs from female as follows: Color: antenna brown- 
ish, more red-tinged below, with white only on scape below; cly- 
peus and face often almost completely pure white; white orbital ring 
very broad, reaching rearward to occipital carina on lower 0.6 of 
temple; propleuron largely white; mesopleuron with white irregu- 
larly below on prepectus, white on a large blotch in lower front 
quadrant just distad of prepectal carina, and also white on a broad 
band that parallels sternaulus below and reaches about 0.6 the dis- 
tance to apex of mesopleuron; mesepimeron white dorsally; scutel- 
lum white on basal 0.7; gaster with a broad white apical band on 
both 1st and 2nd tergites, a narrower and laterally aborted white 
apical band on 3rd tergite (or rarely without white on tergite 3), and 
a broad and laterally aborted white apical band on 4th tergite; fore 
tibia and tarsus tinged with whitish; 3rd and 4th hind tarsomeres 
white. 
Length of fore wing: 5. 3-5. 4 mm. First flagellomere: 3. 8-4.0 as 
long as deep at apex. Malar space: 0.53-0.66 as long as basal width 
of mandible. Mesoscutum: notauli narrow but well defined, trace- 
able about 0.8 the length of mesoscutum; surface coarsely puncto- 
reticulate throughout. Propodeum: spiracle 1.7 as long as wide; 
median longitudinal carinae weakly to rather strongly defined and 
more or less vaguely delimiting an areola and a median apical area; 
lateral longitudinal carinae weak and irregular; surface grossly 
reticulate. First gastric tergite: postpetiole 1.6-1. 7 as wide apically 
as long from spiracle to apex; surface of postpetiole with numerous 
large, coarse punctures which may be in great part subadjacent but 
sometimes are irregularly sparser or even mostly sparse; baso-lateral 
flange of petiole small and weak. Second gastric tergite: with even 
coarser, larger, and denser punctures than in female, most of which 
are adjacent to reticulo-confluent. 
Type Material. Holotype 9: ARGENTINA, Santiago del Es- 
tero Province, Santiago del Estero, reared from cocoon adhering 
to bark of Prosopis alba found by D. Havrylenko during VIII-1963. 
Paratypes: 29 and 55, same data as holotype. Holotype in Florida 
State Collection of Arthropods. Paratypes in Collection of Charles 
C. Porter (19, 15), in American Entomological Institute (19, 15). 
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (15). in the Snow Entomo- 
