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Que.; June 23 at Chester, Calif.; August 12 on Dixie Mt. at 5,200 to 

 6,000 ft., in the Blue Mts., Oreg. ; August 19 and 31 on Diamond Head 

 Trail, near Squamish, B. C; and September 5 at Del Norte, Calif. 



Reared specimens are as follows: d\ from Laspeyresia toreuta (no 

 further data). 2d", 19, from Paratimia conicola in Pinus attenuata, 

 Del Norte, Calif., collected Oct. 12, 1913, emerged Mar. 18, 1914, 

 P. D. Sergent. 9, from Paratimia conicola, Mount St. Helena, Napa 

 Co., Calif., June 19, 1930, E. C. Van Dyke. d\ 9, from cones of Pinus 

 tuberculata, Mount St. Helena, Napa Co., Calif., Mar. 26, 1951, J. 

 Heifer, E. C. Van Dyke, J. W. Greene, and H. B. Leech. 



This subspecies occurs in the Canadian and Transition zones of 

 the West, and extends eastward in the Canadian zone to Quebec. It 

 has been reared from lepidopterous and coleopterous borers in cones 

 of Pinus. 



3b. Poemenia americana americana (Cresson) 



Euxorides americanus Cresson, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 167; 9 • 

 Type: 9 , Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). 



Male: Similar to the male of P. a. nebulosa except as stated in the 

 key. 



Female: Black. Scape and pedicel pale brown in front; apical 

 third of clypeus and most of mandible tinged with ferruginous; palpi 

 white; hind corner of pronotum white, with a narrow forward exten- 

 sion of white that reaches half way to notaulus; front lower edge of 

 pronotum with a broad white stripe; tegula white; front coxa white, 

 fulvous basally; front and middle trochanters white; front and middle 

 femora light fulvous, whitish at apex and at extreme base, and tinged 

 with white in front; front and middle tibiae whitish, faintly tinged 



Figures 167-169. — Localities: 167 (left), Poemenia americana nebulosa; 168 

 (center), P. a. americana; 169 (right), P. pacifica. 



