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punctures. It may prove to be only a subspecies of P. notata. We 

 have compared our series of pacifica with two females of notata 

 from Europe, but not with males. 



Type: 9, on dead Pinus contorta, near Glacier Point, Yosemite 

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

 USNM 63717). 



Paratypes: 9, Bridge Creek Camp, Lassen Co., Calif., July 9, 1949, 

 J. E. Gillaspy (Berkeley). 9, Donner Pass, Calif., Aug. 1, 1948, H., 

 M., G., and D. Townes (Townes). 149, on dead Pinus contorta, near 

 Glacier Point, Yosemite Park, Calif., July 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, 1948, 

 H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Townes, Ottawa, and Madison). 2cf, 

 reared from galls of Disholcaspis truckeensis, Idyll wild, Calif., Apr. 

 5 and 8, 1923 (Washington). 9, Miami Ranger Station, Mariposa 

 Co., Calif., May 22, 1942, Arthur J. Walz (Berkeley). 9, reared from 

 Quercus wializenii, Upland, Calif., emerged May 24, 1918, L. H. Weld 

 (Washington). 9, reared from Quercus agrifolia, Walnut Creek, 

 Calif., Aug. 20, 1911, J. C. Bridwell (Berkeley). 9, Yosemite, Calif, 

 at 3,880 to 4,000 ft., May 16, 1931, E. O. Essig (Berkeley). 2d\ 

 reared from oak galls, Grants Pass, Oreg., emerged May 16, and 18, 

 1899, A. D. Hopkins (Washington). 9, La Grande, Wash., Aug. 6, 

 1945 (Townes). 29, Fort Lewis, Pierce Co. Wash., June 24 and 28, 

 1951, R. Schuster (Berkeley). 



This species occurs from Washington to California. It has been 

 reared from cynipid galls on Quercus. 



2. Genus Podoschistus 



Figure 301, b 



Podoschistus Townes, 1957, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 59, p. IS. Type: 

 Xorides vittifrons Cresson; original designation. 



Front wing 6 to 14 mm. long; clypeus small, quadrate, about 1.2 as 

 wide as long, basally convex, the rest impressed, its apex truncate or 

 concave; mandible short, its apex chisel-shaped, without teeth; 

 temple in profile about 0.55 as long as eye, its upper half coarsely 

 scabrous; mesoscutum rather strongly trilobed; notauli strong, con- 

 vergent and almost meeting on disc of mesoscutum; areolet absent, 

 the intercubitus about 0.5 as long as second abscissa of cubitus; 

 nervulus opposite basal vein; tarsal claws with a median, appressed, 

 pointed tooth; first tergite about 2.3 to 3.0 as long as wide; second and 

 third tergites mat, with moderate-sized punctures. 



This genus includes the European Xorides scutellaris Desvignes 

 1856, the Japanese Xorides alpensis Uchida 1928, and Xorides vittifrons 

 Cresson 1868 from North America, 



