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Figures 40, 41. — Localities: 40 (left), Apistephialles dentatus; 41 (right), 



A. coracinas. 



(Townes). 9, reared from Enoclerus sphegeus in Pseudotsuga, Cow- 

 ichan Lake, B. C, May 25, 1941, K. Graham (Ottawa). 9, Sugar 

 Lake, B. C, Sept. 1, 1924, E. R. Buckell (Ottawa). 9, Vancouver, 

 B. C. (Washington). <?, Berkeley, Calif., May 17, 1937, R. M. and 

 G. E. Bohart (San Francisco). 9, Echo Lake, 7,400 ft., Calif., July 

 20, 1933, E. O. Essig (Berkeley). 39, near Glacier Point, Yosemite 

 Park, Calif., July 16 and 17, 1948, H., M., G., D., and J. Townes 

 (Townes). d\ Glendale, Calif., July 21, 1941, E. I. Schlinger (Davis). 

 9, Lompoc, Calif., Aug. 6, 1938, L. W. Hepner (Lawrence). 9, Menlo 

 Park, Calif., Jan. 1905, F. Hornung (Washington). cT, 9, reared 

 from Thanasimus nigriventris, North Fork, Calif., May 5, 1927, 

 H. L. Person (Washington). 9, Oakland, Calif., Apr. 1, 1950, R. 

 Schuster (Townes). 9, reared from Enoclerus sphegeus, Yosemite, 

 Calif., Jan. 27, 1938, G. R. Struble (Townes). 29, reared from Puea 

 engelmanni, New Castle, Colo. (Washington). 9, reared from Libo- 

 cedrus decurrens, Ashland, Oreg., Feb. 3, 1919, W. E. Glendinning 

 (Washington). 9, Corvallis, Oreg., Aug. 24, 1935, G. Ferguson (Wash- 

 ington). 9, Metaline Falls, Wash., June 10, 1931, W. D. Bedard 

 (Washington). 



This is a species of the Canadian and Transition zones of the West. 

 It is parasitic on clerids in Coniferae. 



8. Apistephialtes coracinus, new species 



Figures 331,m; 339 



Front wing of male 4.1 to 5.4 mm. long, of female 5.8 to 8.7 mm. 

 long; propodeum smooth, without rugulosity or longitudinal ridges, 

 its punctures separated by about 1.5 their diameter; male subgenital 

 plate and the preceding sternite as in figure 331,m; apo.v of male 

 clasper rather short (fig. 339); male eighth and ninth tergites com- 



