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County, May 7, 1931, E. C. Van Dyke (San Francisco). $ , Mount 

 Diablo, Contra Costa County, June 25, 1939, E. C. Van Dyke (San 

 Francisco), $ , Mount Wilson, 5,000 feet. May 26, 1918, J. O. Martin 

 (San Francisco). 5, Pinon Flat, Santa Rosa Mountains, May 27, 

 1941, D. J. and J. N. Knull (Washington) . 11 5 , Santa Rosa Moun- 

 tains, May 27 to July 4, 194G, D. J. and J. N. Knull (Columbus and 

 Townes). $, Switzer's Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, June 1927 

 (Cambridge). 



2. MEGISCHUS TEXANUS Cresson 



Plate 25, Figure 4 



Mcgischns texanus Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 190, 1872. Type: 

 9, Comal County, Tex. (Philadelphia). 



Mesopleurum mat and sparsely punctate- hody light hroion. 



Forewing of males 4r-5 mm. long, of females 5-8 mm. long ; temple 

 with a few weak punctures, weakly mat in its lower 0.6 ± and in its 

 upper 0.15 ±, the rest polished; pronotum mat, its anterior 0.3 to 0.4 

 with cross ridges (pi. 25, fig. 4) ; mesopleurum mat, with sparse large 

 shallow punctures; propodeum mat, its central part, especially api- 

 cally, more or less punctate to punctato-rugose ; brachial and sub- 

 discoidal veins subobsolete; outer face of hind femur with a few 

 shallow punctures, mat, most strongly mat toward its apex; hind 

 tibia of female pinched laterally at its basal 0.35, most strongly in- 

 dented on the outer side, beyond the pinch swollen to the width of 

 the femur, its inner edge without a noticeable median indentation; 

 hind basitarsus of female narrow, not expanded apically; first ter- 

 gite mat, smooth, in the female about 7.0 as long as wide; ovipositor 

 sheath about 0.9 as long as the body. 



Light brown. Wings tinged with brown ; tergites 2-5 with a more 

 or less distinct darker brown apical band, and the apical part of the 

 abdomen often darker brown than the rest of the body; ovipositor 

 sheath with a subapical white band. 



Specimens. — AmzoNA : 9 , Chiricahua Mountains, June 3, 1935, 

 J. N. Knull (Washington) . $ , Douglas, April 13, 1939, W. W. Jones 

 (Washington). $, Huachuca Mountains, June 11, 1933, R. H. 

 Beamer (Lawrence). 5 , Huachuca Mountains (Washington). 2, 

 Prescott, May 19, Barber and Schwarz (Washington). $ , Tucson, 

 July 20, 1940, D. J. and J. N. Knull (Washington). 5 , Sunnyside 

 Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, July 9, 1940, R. H. Beamer (Law- 

 rence). 5 , southern Arizona (Cambridge). 



California : 5,2$, Santa Rosa Mountains, July 4, 1946, D. J. and 

 J. N. ICnull (Columbus and Townes). 



Mexico: 5 , Nogales, Sonora, June 25, 1942 (Washington). 



Oklahoma : $ , Wichita National Forest, Jime 26, 1936, R. H. 

 Beamer (Lawrence). 



