ceropalinae: tribe minaqeniini 



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Tex., Sept. 8, 1934, J. E. Gillaspy (College Station, Tex.). 4cf , 29, 

 on Baccharis salicina, Williamson County, Tex., Oct. 5, 1935, J. E. 

 Gillasp3' (Strandtmann, Townes, and College Station, Tex.), cf 

 (type of texanus), 9 (type of dorsalis), Texas (Philadelphia). 2cf 

 (paratypes of texanus), 29 (paratj^pes of dorsalis), Texas (Washington). 

 9, no data (Cambridge), cf , on Asclepias, 8 miles south of Camargo, 

 Chihuahua, Mexico, Aug. 10, 1951, H. E. Evans (Evans), d^, 69, on 

 Baccharis, vicinity of Chihuahua (city), Chihuahua, Mexico, Aug. 11 

 and 12, 1951, H. E. Evans and P. D. Hurd (Evans, Berkeley, and 

 Townes). 3 cT, 39, on flowers of Guardiola tulocarpa, 8 miles south of 

 Canutillo, Durango, Mexico, Aug. 9, 1951, P. D. Hurd and H. E. 



Figure 131. — Localities for Notocyphus dorsalis dorsalis. 



Evans (Berkeley and Evans). 4c?, 29, Nombre de Dios, Durango, 

 Mexico, Aug. 1 and 6, 1951, P. D. Hurd (Berkeley and Townes). 

 Cresson states that the types of both texanus and dorsalis were taken 

 on Solidago in September and October. 



Some of the specimens here reported from various locaUties in 

 Mexico tend in the direction of the other two subspecies, but are 

 closer to typical dorsalis than to the norm of the subspecies arizonicus 

 or restrict us. 



This subspecies is known from Texas and the adjacent parts of 

 Mexico. Adults occur from June to October. 



Tribe Minageniini 



Labrum short, briefly exposed ; eyes subparallel within ; thorax rather 

 short; flagellum flexible and not unusually thickened; propodeum 

 rather short, weakl}^ convex in profile; stigma moderate in size, about 

 3.5 as long as wide; nervellus ending distinctly basad of the juncture 

 of cubiteUa with discoidella (pi. 1, fig. 13); middle and hind femora 

 without spinelike bristles set in pits; spinelike bristles on outer 

 apical margin of hind tibia rather weak, forming an irregular or 



