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Figure 104. — Localities for 

 Synosis clepsydra. 



Black. Face, lower corner of irons, rarely narrow frontal orbit, 

 cheek, clypeus, mouth parts, scape and pedicel beneath, tegula, and 

 subtegular ridge, pale yellow; flagellum dark brown, light brown 

 beneath; hind corner of pronotum fulvous and yellow; legs fulvous; 

 first three abdominal tergites often stained with ferruginous apically. 



Type: 9, Camino, Calif., June 27, 1948, H., M., G., and D. Townes 

 (Washington, USNM 63644). 



Paratypes: 9, Kaslo, B. C, 1903, R. P. Currie (Washington). d\ 

 Crawford Co., Ind., May, C. H. Kennedy (Townes). 9, Auburndale, 

 Mass., June 17 (Townes). 9, Forest Hills, Mass., May 21, 1909 

 (Cambridge). d\ Midland Co., Mich., June 24, 1951, R. R. Dreisbach 

 (Dreisbach). d\ 9, Cranberry Lake, N. Y., June 22, 1924, E. A. 

 Hartley (Washington). 9, Flatbush, N. Y., June 10, 1890, J. L. 

 Zabriskie (Cambridge). 9, Kirks Ferry, Que., Aug. 10, 1950, B. P. 

 Beirne (Ottawa). 9, Knowlton, Que., July 28, 1936, G. S. Walley 

 (Ottawa). 9, Wright, Que,, June 10, 1935, F. A. Urquhart (Ottawa). 

 9, Mount Equinox, Bennington Co., Vt., June 5, 1910, C. W. Johnson 

 (Cambridge). 9, Saint Johnsbury, Vt., June 27, 1906 (Cambridge). 

 9, Griffith State Nursery, Wood Co., Wis., July 3, 1949, R. D. Shenefelt 

 (Madison). 



This species is transcontinental in the Transition zone. Most 

 adults have been taken in June and July. 



21. Genus Exochus 



Figures 163,b; 177,b 

 Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829, Ichneumonologia europaea, vol. 3, p. 328. Type: 



Ichneumon gravipes Gravenhorst; designated by Viereck, 1912. 

 Amesolytus Foerster, 1868, Verh. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, vol. 25, p. 161. Type: 



Amesolytus ferrugineus Ashmead; included by Ashmead, 1896. 

 Mima Davis, 1897, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, p. 206, 219; name preoccupied. 



Type: Mima washingtonensis Davis; monobasic. 

 Xanthexochus Morley, 1913, Fauna of British India . . , Hymenoptera, vol. 3, 



p. 292; new synonymy. Type: Xanthexochus scutellatus Morley; original 



designation. 



