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Paratypes: 9, Aspen Beach, Alta., Aug. 23, 1944, O. Peck (Ottawa). 

 9, emerged Aug. 25, 1911, from pupa on Pinus, British Columbia 

 (Ottawa). 9, Leevining, Calif., Apr. 24, 1948, H., M., G., and D. 

 Townes (Townes). 9, near Sonora Pass, 8,500 ft., Calif., July 7, 

 1948, H., M., G., and D. Townes (Townes). 9, Mica, Wash., July 14, 

 1918, A. L. Melander (St. Paul). 9, Port Angeles, Mount Pleasant 

 District, Wash., July 16, 1945, R. D. Shenefelt (Madison). 



This subspecies occurs in the Canadian zone of western North 

 America. 



8. Trieces tcxauus (Crcsson) 

 Figures 165,b; 180,h 



Exochus texanus Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc, vol. 4, p. 168; "tf"^ ?. 

 Type: 9 , Bosque Co., Tex. (Washington). 



Front wing 4.0 to 5.2 mm. long; face about 1.3 as wide as high in 

 male, about 1.4 as wide as high in female; punctures of face rather 

 coarse and dense, separated by about 0.3 then diameter; face and 

 clypeus in profile moderately convex; attachment of front tentorial 

 arm making a long line dorsomesad from clypeal fovea; eye of male 

 almost without hairs, of female with very short, sparse hairs; meta- 

 pleurum with an elongate triangle of hairs in its upper hind portion, 

 without hairs in its upper front corner; striae of metapleurum extend- 

 ing forward nearly or quite to front of metapleurum, but not far 

 dorsad; propodeal spiracle long elliptic, its rim confluent with pleural 

 carina; front spin of middle tibia about 0.38 as long as hind spur; sec- 

 ond segment of middle tarsus about 1.8 as long as wide in male, 

 about 0.95 as long as wide in female; second abdominal tergite about 

 0.76 as long as wide in male, about 0.74 as long as wide in female, 

 with moderate sized, sharp, separate punctures; sublateral longitudi- 

 nal carina of third tergite extending about 0.4 the length of the tergite. 



Black. Face, clypeus, cheek, and mouth parts, yellow, except that 

 mandible of female is brown ; face with a small median dorsal area and 

 a crescent next each antennal socket brown; antenna dark brown, 

 paler beneath; tegula fulvous, yellow at base; front and middle legs 

 fulvous, the apex of then femora and basal 0.2 of their tibiae yellow- 

 ish; hind coxa blackish, apically ferruginous; hind trochanters fulvous; 

 hind femur blackish to fulvous; hind tibia and tarsus fulvous or some- 

 times somewhat infuscate, the basal 0.2 of the tibia yellowish. 



Specimens: 9, Florida, A. T. Slosson (New York), cf, Sandhills, 

 Medora, Ivans., June 29, 1923, R. H. Beamer (Lawrence). 9, Takoma 

 Park, Md., June 23, 1943, H. and M. Townes (Townes). d\ 39, 

 Moorestown, N. J., June 21, June 30, July 3, and July 12, all in 1939, 

 H. and M. Townes (Townes). cf (type), Bosque Co., Tex., G. W. 

 Belfrage (Washington). 



