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July 23, 1944, W. W. Baker (Madison). 39, Mount Rainier at 

 2,900, 3,500, and 3,800 ft,, Wash., July 7, 12, and 15, 1940, H. 

 and M. Townes (Townes). d\ Valleyford, Wash., June 25, 1924, 

 A. L. Melander (Cambridge). 



Hosts: This species has been reared on a number of occasions in 

 the Vancouver region of British Columbia from Acleris variana 

 (Fernald) and Choristoneura fumrferana (Clemens). Other records 

 include reanngs from Archips rosanus (Linnaeus) and Grapholitha 

 packardi (Zeller) at Vancouver, B. C, Anthophila pariana (Clemens) 

 at Bellingham, Wash., and a nematine stem gall on Salix at Valleyford, 

 Wash. 



This species occurs in the western part of the Transition zone, at 

 low elevations and especially in coastal regions, from southwestern 

 British Columbia to central California. 



14. Scambus (Scambus) tecumseh Viereck 



Figure 310,i,l; 312,f; 321, a 



Scambus (Sca?nbus) tecumseh Viereck, 1917, Bull. Connecticut Geol. Nat. Hist. 

 Surv., No. 22, p. 320; 9 . Type: 9 , West Haven, Conn. (Connecticut Agr. 

 Exp. Sta., New Haven). 



Male: Front wing 2.0 to 5.5 mm. long; antenna with 20 to 22 seg- 

 ments; temple moderately rounded and rather strongly receding; 

 thorax and propodeum rather stout, the latter usually with distinct 

 dorsomediai carinae extending a little beyond middle; front femur 

 rather stout, with a moderately distinct double excision beneath; 

 front tibia distinctly, evenly bent; abdomen moderately stout; tergite 

 1 about 1.3 times as long as broad. 



Black. Front and middle coxae, and all trochanters, whitish; hind 

 coxa reddish, occasionally varying to more or less fuscous; front femur 



Figures 23, 24. — Localities: 23 (left), Scambus (Scambus) transgressus; 24 



(right), S. (S.) tecumseh. 



