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Figures 41, 42. — Localities: 41 (left), Aritranis linnae linnae; 42 (right), A. I. pacifica. 



This subspecies occurs in open shrubby areas from the Atlantic 

 Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, mostly in the Transition zone. It is 

 adult from late in May to early in September. 



3b. Aritranis linnae pacifica, new subspecies 



Male: Head and its appendages colored as in subspecies linnae 

 except that white on frontal orbit is a httle more extensive, scape is 

 ferruginous in front, thorax ferruginous, the area around scutellum 

 fuscous and the white markings located as in the subspecies linnae 

 but these not quite so extensive, legs colored as in subspecies linnae 

 except that there is no fuscous on coxae, trochanters, or hind femur, 

 hind tibia is rather uniformly ferruginous, segment 1 of hind tarsus 

 ferruginous brown, segment 2 of hind tarsus with its basal 0.6 ± 

 often ferruginous brown, and segment 5 of hind tarsus entirely dark 

 brown; abdomen entirely ferruginous. 



Female: Ferruginous. Pedicel and flagellum blackish brown, fer- 

 ruginous brown basally, the flagellum with a dorsal white stripe 

 covering two of its median segments; areas next to scutellum infuscate; 

 fifth segments of tarsi dark brown. 



Tj^pe: d", Crane Flat, Yosemite Park, Cahf., July 25, 1948, H., 

 M., G., D., and J. Townes (Washington, USNM 63757). 



Paratypes: 2cf, same data as type (Townes). 9, Mill Valley, 

 Marin Co., Calif., June 19, 1950, H. B. Leech (San Francisco). 



4. Aritranis gracilis (Provancher) 



Cryptus ornatus Provancher, 1886, Additions et corrections au volume ii de la 

 faune entomologique du Canada traitant des hymenopteres, p. 63; ?. Name 

 preoccupied by Gravenhorst, 1829. Type: 9, Ottawa, Ont. (Ottawa). 



Cry plus scutellatus Provancher, 1886, Additions et corrections au volume ii de la 

 faune entomologique du Canada traitant des hymenopteres, p. 69; ?. 

 Lapsus for C. ornatus; the name C. scutellatus is preoccupied by Smith, 1858. 



