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punctures but not distinctly striate; second tergite with small, moder- 

 ately dense punctures and some rugulosity; third through fifth 

 tergites smooth, subpolished, with only minute setiferous punctures. 



Black. Palpi dark brown; tegula blackish; coxae, trochanters, and 

 femora blackish brown to black, the trochanters sometimes partly 

 brown; tibiae and tarsi brown; wings subhyalme. 



Female: Front wing 5.2 to 6.8 mm. long; flagellum with 21 to 24 

 segments; head strongly depressed, about 0.77 as high as long; temple 

 rather long, bulging a little, moderately rounded; punctures on temple 

 of moderate size, separated by about 1.5 their diameter; punctures on 

 vertex a little smaller and sparser than on temple; notaulus foveolate 

 or not; hairs on lateral part of mesosternum moderately sparse, their 

 sockets separated by about 0.5 the length of the hairs; propodeal 

 areola with bounding carinae mostly indistinct; lateral areas of pro- 

 podeum weakly rugose; first abdominal tergite broad, evenly convex, 

 with small, weak, irregular punctures more or less confluent with fine, 

 rather weak striation; second and third tergites smooth except for 

 some fine, weak, transverse striation medially and basnlly: fourth 

 tergite almost smooth; ovipositor sheath about 1.45 as long as 

 front wing. 



Black. Palpi dark brown; tegula black; coxae, trochanters, and 

 femora blackish brown to black; tibiae and tarsi brownish fulvous; 

 abdomen ferruginous, its first tergite black, its second and third 

 tergites usually more or less infuscate and its fourth and following 

 tergites sometimes more or less infuscate; ovipositor sheath light 

 fulvous, its expanded apical part a little darker; wings weakly 

 infuscate. 



Specimens: 9, north rim of Grand Canyon, 8,000 ft., Ariz., June 1, 

 1946, R. M. Bohart (Townes). 9, Cisco, Calif., July 31, 1948, H., 

 M., G., and D. Townes (Townes). d\ Echo Lake, Calif., July 23, 

 1955, E. I. Schlinger (Davis). 2d 1 , 19, near Glacier Point, Yosemite 

 Park, Calif., July 18, 1948, H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Townes). 

 29, under bark, Herkey Creek in San Jacinto Mts., Calif., June 4, 

 1940, R. Husbands (Berkeley). <?, Leevining, Calif., June 22, 1948, 

 H., M., G., and D. Townes (Townes). 9, from Abies magnified, 

 Meyers, Calif., F. B. Herbert (¥/ashington) . cf, 3 miles southeast of 

 Mount Lassen, Calif., July 8, 1955, J. W. MacSwain (Berkeley). 

 29, San Jacinto Mt. trail, San Jacinto Mts., July 1, 1952, J. W. 

 MacSwain (Berkeley). 29 (type and paratype), reared from cocoons 

 in buprestid galleries in Cercocarpus parcif alius, Ashland, Oreg., 

 Jan. 30, 1914, G. Hofer (Washington). 



This species occurs from Washington to Arizona. It has been 

 taken in Transition and Canadian localities. 



