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Mount Rainier at 2,900 ft., "Pelvis," San Juan Island, Sultan, and 

 Yelm) ; Wisconsin (Dunn Co. and Madison) ; and Yukon (IOuane and 

 Marsh Lake). 



Most collecting dates are in July and August and the great majority 

 of the specimens were taken from June 12 to September 12. The 

 only captures outside of this range were: May 22 at South Hadley, 

 Mass.; May 28 at Ottawa, Ont.; May 29 at Ithaca, N. Y.; June 1 at 

 Wellington, B. C; June 3 at Amherst, Mass.; June 7 at Sylva, N. C. 

 and at South Hadley, Mass.; June 8 at Manchester, Vt.; June 9 at 

 Elizabethtown, N. Y. ; September 13 at Liberty, Maine and at 

 Madison, Wis.; September 14 at Holliston, Mass.; and October 6 at 

 Inverness, Calif. 



This species is transcontinental in the Transition and Canadian 

 zones. It occurs in rank vegetation in damp deciduous woods. 

 It is adult from early to late summer. 



2. Laufeia navajo, new species 



Figure 323, a 



Front wing of male 3.2 to 5.7 mm. long, of female 4.2 to 5.8 mm. 

 long; body and legs a little more robust than in L. slossonae; lateral 

 longitudinal carina of propodeum distinct on apical 0.25 of propodeum; 

 median longitudinal carinae of propodeum absent; petiolar area not 

 defined; propodeum smooth or in some areas faintly rugulose; first 

 tergite about 1.77 as long as wide in male, about 1.25 as long as wide 

 in female, its median longitudinal carinae distinct on its basal 0.3 ±. 



Black. Antenna brown, paler basally, its scape and pedicel ivory 

 except above; palpi, tegula, hind corner of pronotum, often lower 

 corner of pronotum, and legs, ivory; pronotum more or less (especially 

 near hind corner and near lower corner), mesosternum, mesopleurum, 

 metapleurum, mesonotum, and sometimes additional parts of thorax, 

 fulvous; femora often with a vague stramineous stripe above; hind 

 tibia with narrow indistinct apical and subbasal infuscation; fifth 

 segment of front and middle tarsi pale brown, paler basally; fifth 

 segment of hind tarsus infuscate, paler basally; first four segments 

 of hind tarsus stramineous apically. 



Type: 9, Workman Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., May 8, 1947, 

 H. and M. Townes (Washington, USNM 63697). 



Paratj^pes: 39, Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., May 16, 1947, H. and 

 M. Townes (Townes). 22 <?, 279, Workman Creek, Parker Creek, 

 and Pocket Creek, all in the Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 21 to May 8, 

 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, Sunnyside Canyon in Cochise 

 Co., Ariz., July 9, 1940, It. H. Beamer (Lawrence). 9, Honduras, 

 1940, W. von Hagen (New York). 



