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near Kamloops, Nicola, Okanagan, Oliver, Osoyoos, Vaseaux Lake 

 12 miles south of Pentictou, and Vernon); California (Blanco's 

 Corral on White Mt. in Mono Co. at 10,000 ft., Doyle, Leavitt Meadow 

 in Mono Co., Sagehen near Hobart MiUs, and Spaldings in Lassen 

 Co.) ; Colorado (Castle Park in Dinosaur National Monument, 

 Cripple Creek, Florissant, east of Lake George, and Moffat Co. at 

 G,000 to 7,000 ft.); Idaho (7 miles northwest of Aberdeen, 5 miles 

 north of Bliss, 3 miles south of Gooding, Hot Springs 9 miles north 

 of Mountain Home, Malad, 3 miles northwest of Malta, St. Maries, 

 Shoshone, and 18 miles south of Twin Falls at 3,700 ft.); Montana 

 (Helena and Missoula) ; Nevada (Eureka, and Lamoille Canyon 

 in Ruby Mts., Pequop Summit, and Secret Pass in Ruby Mts. at 

 6,500 ft., all in Elko Co.) ; Oregon C'Cody Ranch" in Harney Co., 

 Fish Lake and French Glen at 4,300 ft. in Steens Mts., ToUgate, and 

 Virginia Valley near Foll3"farm in Steens Mts.) ; Saskatchewan (Great 

 Deer, Saskatchewan Landing, and Saskatoon) ; Utah (Beaver Canyon, 

 Beaver Valley, Blue Creek, Brj'ce Canyon, Fort Duchesne, Jordan 

 Narrows, Logan Canyon, Magna, Provo, and St. George) ; 

 Washington (Grand Coulee, Pullman, Wenatchee, and Yaldma Co.) ; 

 and Wyoming (Laramie). 



Collection dates are mostly from May 10 to July 20. Those out- 

 side of this range are: April 30 at Grand Coulee, Wash.; Alay 1 at 

 Yakima, Wash.; May 4 at Wenatchee, Wash.; May 9 thi'ee miles 

 south of Gooding, Idaho, and in Yaldma Co., Wash.; July 27 at 

 Cripple Creek, Colo.; and August 7 in the Blackfoot Hills, Alta. 



This subspecies occurs in western North America from Saskatche- 

 wan and British Columbia southward in the Rocky Mountain area 

 to northern Arizona, and also in the higher parts of the Sierra Nevada 

 of California. We ourselves have never taken it, but judging from the 

 locality data it seems to be generally distributed in the Canadian 

 zone. 



12b. Trachysphyrus asymmetricus mirabilis (Pratt), new status 



Cryptus mirabilis Pratt, 1945, Amer. Midi. Xat., vol. 34, p. 589; 9 • Type: 9 , 

 Crestline, San Bernardino Co., Calif. (Washington). 



Male: Black. Face except for a sublateral fuscous stripe, mouth 

 parts, narrow stripe on hind orbit, and front of scape, yellow; scutel- 

 lum, most of mesoscutum, tegula, subtegular ridge, hind corner of 

 pronotiun, and small spot on lower part of mesopleurum, red; legs 

 and abdomen red, the hind tibia and tarsus a little infuscate, seg- 

 ments 3-4 of hind tarsus and apical half of segment 2, yellow; wings 

 moderately infuscate. 



Female: Black. Head largely or almost entirely, mouth parts, 

 scape, pedicel, base of flagellum, much to nearly all of mesoscutum, 



