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Seeley, Sierraville in Sierra Co., Sisson, Snowline Camp near Camino 

 in El Dorado Co., Sobre Vista in Sonoma Co., Sonoma in Sonoma Co., 

 South Pasadena, Stanford University, Tanbark Flat in Los Angeles 

 Co., Tolay Creek in Sonoma Co., Trinity Co., Walnut Creek, Warner 

 Springs in San Diego Co., Watts Valley in Fresno Co., Woodlake in 

 Tulare Co., Woodland, Yoseraite at 3,880 to 4,000 ft., and Yucca 

 Creek in Sequoia National Park); Idaho (Bear Pass Creek in Butte 

 Co., Lewiston, Moscow, and Moscow Mt.); Montana (Helena); 

 Nevada (Verdi) ; Oregon (Blooming, Corvallis, Klamath Falls, 5 

 miles west of Lewisburg in Benton Co., Union Creek in Jackson Co., 

 PhoenLx, and The Dalles) ; South Dakota (2 miles south of Custer in 

 the Black Hills) ; Utah (Benson, City Creek Canyon in Salt Lake Co., 

 Lehi, Mill Creek Canyon in Salt Lake Co., Newton, Providence, Salt 

 Lake City, Tremonton, Utah Lake at Provo, and Wellsville Mts. 

 in Cache Co.) ; and Washington (Colfax, Dartford, Fishtrap Lake in 

 Lincoln Co., Grand Coulee on Columbia River, Husum, Pullman, 

 Toppenish, Uniontown, and Yakima). 



Collection dates are mostly in May, June, and July. Those out- 

 side of these three months are: March 24 at Lone Pine, Inj^o Co., 

 Calif.; April 19 at Walnut Creek, Calif.; August 1 at Gait, Calif., and 

 at Toppenish, Wash. ; August 4 and 23 at Moscow Mt., Idaho; August 

 8 at Helena, Mont.; August 9 at Oakley, Contra Costa Co., Calif.; 

 August 14 at Firebaugh, Fresno Co., Calif.; and September 1 to 15 at 

 Union Creek, Jackson Co., Oreg. 



There is one reared specimen: 9, from cocoons of white fir sawfly, 

 Rowland Flat, Calif., July 1953, R. L. Lyons and G. R. Struble. 

 Three lots of specimens were collected on Pastinaca saliva, one on 

 Foeniculum vulgare, and one on Eriodictyon sp. 



This species occurs abundantly from southern British Columbia to 

 southern California and sparingly eastward to the Black Hills of South 

 Dakota. 



19. Trychosis cyperia, new species 



Figure 399 



Front wing 5.3 to 8.5 mm. long; clypeus rather small, moderately 

 convex, its apical margin wealdy arcuate or subtruncate; cheek mod- 

 erately long, mat, its punctures of moderate size, very close; temple 

 wealdy convex, closely punctate; lateral and ventral portions of oc- 

 cipital carina raised as a narrow lamella, near its lower end the lamella 

 about as high as width of thhd segment of maxiUary palpus; second 

 segment of flagellum about 2.8 as long as wide in male, about 4.3 as 

 long as wide in female; prepectus with a short vertical carina opposite 

 lower corner of pronotum that is raised as a crescentic ridge, much 

 higher at middle than at ends (this ridge not raised at the middle in 

 any other Nearctic species except T. anagmus) ; notaulus weak, about 



