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flagellum with a white stripe above that covers 3 to 3.5 segments; 

 most of sterna, upper part of propleurum, and area around scutellum 

 fuscous; tarsi brown apically, the hind tarsus sometimes pale fulvous 

 or whitish medially; wings with a ferruginous brown tinge. A female 

 from Everett Lake, Washington, has the scape blackish brown and 

 the clypeus black except for a median apical ferruginous stain. 



Type: 9, Tamarack Flat, Yosemite Park, Cahf., July 24, 1948, 

 H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Washington, USNM 63759). 



Paratypes: c^ , Berkeley, Calif., Apr. 29, 1934 (Townes). d^, Ber- 

 keley, Calif., May 1, 1949, P. D. Hurd (Berkeley), c^. Cathedral 

 Lake, Tahoe, Calif., Feb. 6, 1915, E. P. Van Duzee (Berkeley), d", 

 Dardanelle, Calif., July 8, 1948, H., M., G., D., and J. Townes 

 (Townes). d", Felton, Cahf., Sept. 6, 1908, J. C. Bradley (Ithaca). 

 d", Fish Camp, Calif., July 11, 1948, H., M., G., and D. Townes 

 (Townes). cf, near Glacier Point, Yosemite Park, Calif., July 19, 

 1948, H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Townes). cf , Green Valley, 

 Solano Co., Calif., May 28, 1948, K. M. Bohart (Townes). 9, Lake 

 Tahoe, Calif., July 1934, L. W. Saylor (Patuxent). d, Mill Valley, 

 Marin Co., Calif., June 11, 1922, C. L. Fox (San Francisco), d, 

 Mount Hamilton, Calif., Apr. 14, 1936 (Townes). cf, Oakland, 

 Calif., May 22, 1955, B. Hudson (Berkeley). &, Tallac Lake, Tahoe, 

 Calif., Feb. 12, 1915, E. P. Van Duzee (Berkeley). 9, Strawberry, 

 Calif., June 28, 1948, H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Townes). 9, 

 Lake Stephens, near Everett, Wash., Aug. 3, 1917, A. L. Melander 

 (Cambridge). 



This subspecies occurs in the Pacific States. It is adult mostly 

 from spring to mid-summer. One specimen, however, was collected 

 in September. 



8. Aritranis notata (Provancher), new combination 



Front wing 3.7 to 8.0 mm. long; clypeus wealdy convex, with a 

 strong, blunt, median point which is a little accentuated by a weak 

 impression of the clypeal apex on each side; thorax of moderate 

 slenderness; mesoscutum polished, with medium sized, strong, rather 

 close punctures; apical carma of propodeum strongly sinuate, strongly 

 bowed forward in the middle, sublaterally strengthened to form 

 faint crests; areolet moderately smaU, irregularly pentagonal, the 

 second intercubitus usually shortened; second recurrent forming 

 a 105° angle with first abscissa of subdiscoideus; first tergite mod- 

 erately long, without a basolateral tooth, its median dorsal carinae 

 rather strong and sharp, fading at middle of postpetiole; dorso- 

 lateral carina of first tergite obsolescent a little basad of spiracle, 

 elsewhere rather strong and sharp; postpetiole wealdy mat, with 

 sparse, scattered, small punctures; second tergite wealdy mat, with 



