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Aug. 5, 1951, W. D. Murray (Berkeley). 9, San Diego, Calif., Aug. 

 26, 1891, F. E. Blaisdell (San Francisco). 4d\ San Francisco, Calif., 

 Mar. 23, 25, and 29, 1926, H. H. Keifer (San Francisco). 9, Santa 

 Catalina Island, Calif., Aug. 31, 1936, T. D. A. Cockerell (San Fran- 

 cisco). 9, Tamarack Flat, Yosemite Park, Calif., July 24, 1948, 

 Townes family (Townes). 9, Tesla, Alameda Co., Calif., Sept. 19, 

 1950, F. Morishita (Berkeley). 9, Upper Santa Ana River, San 

 Bernardino Co., Calif., Sept. 23, 1946, G. H. and J. L. Sperry (Law- 

 rence). 3c?, 5 9, Ventura Calif., Aug. 5 and 6, and Sept. 1, 1932 

 (Berkeley). 9, Florissant, Colo., July 18, 1907, S. A. Rohwer (Cam- 

 bridge). 6d\ Minidoka Forest, Idaho, July 27 and Aug. 10, 1949, 

 and July 29 and Aug. 30, 1950 (Ottawa). 



Hosts: Reared from Recurvaria milleri Busck at Lake Tenaya, 

 Calif.; Recurvaria sp. at Minidoka Forest, Idaho; Stomopteryx nigrella 

 (Chambers) at San Francisco, Calif.; and Rhyacionia frusirana bush- 

 nelli at Fort Bayard, N. Mex., this reared specimen being the type 

 of aplopappi. 



This species occurs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, and 

 New Mexico. 



13. Scambus (Scambus) transgressus (Holmgren) 



Figure 312,e 



Pimpla transgressa Holmgren, 1868, Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies 

 resa . . . 1851-53, vol. 2 (Zoologi), pt. 12, Hymenoptera p. 405; $. Type 

 9 , California (Stockholm). 



Epiurus innominatus Viereck, 1912, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 149; 9 • 

 New synonymy. Type: 9 , Esquimalt, B. C. (Washington). 



Male: Front wing 3.5 to 4.5 mm. long; antenna with 21 to 22 

 segments; temple strongly rounded and rather strongly receding; 

 thorax and propodeum moderately stout, the latter with dorsomedial 

 carinae usually rather weak and extending a little beyond middle; 

 legs moderately stout; front femur with a weak, double excision be- 

 neath; front tibia very weakly, evenly bent; abdomen moderately 

 slender. 



Black, with abdomen usually more or less rufopiceous. Front and 

 middle legs entirely, or almost entirely, pale yellowish to whitish; 

 hind coxa reddish; hind trochanter whitish; hind tibia with narrow, 

 subbasal, fuscous annulus interrupted above. 



Female: Front wing 4.5 to 7.0 mm. long; antenna with 21 to 24 

 segments; cheek about 0.33 times breadth of mandible at base; temple 

 strongly rounded and moderately receding; thorax moderately stout; 

 propodeum rather short, with dorsomedial carinae weak to indistinct 

 except at base and not extending beyond middle; abdomen moderately 

 stout; segments 2-5 with unusually large sternites; sheath about as 

 long as abdomen; upper valve of ovipositor with a distinct nodus. 



