REVISION OF GENTJS EUCERCERIS CRESSON 27 



11a. Eucerceris elegans elegans Cresson 



Figures 13, 68 a, b; c 



Eucerceris elegans Cresson, 1879, p. xxiii, cf •; 1882, pp. vi, vii; 1887, p. 281. — 

 Ashmead, 1899, p. 295.— Cresson, 1916, p. 100.— Mickel, 1916, p. 413; 

 1917, pp. 454, 456.— Scullen, 1939, pp. 32-34; 1948, pp. 156, 159, 171; 1951, 

 p. 1011; 1965, pp. 132-135. 



Cerceris eleganiissima Schletterer, 1887, p. 490. — Dalla Torre, C. G., 1897, p. 458. 



Cerceris nevadensis Dalla Torre, K. W. von, 200-201. 



A revised synonymy of E. elegans Cresson and closely related 

 species {E. apicata Banks and E. jpimarum Rohwer) has recently 

 been published by the ^^Tite^ (Scullen, 1965, pp. 132-135). 



Type. — The holotype male of E. elegans Cresson is at the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natiu-al Sciences, no. 1968. It was taken in 

 Nevada. 



Figure 13. Western U.S. E. elegans elegans Cresson 



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Distribution. — Western Nevada. (Record as given in my 1965 

 paper, pp. 134-5.) 



Nevada: 9, Dayton, Lyon Co., June 28, 1959 (T. Haig) ; 2 cf cf , 7 mi. N. 

 Dyer, Esmeralda County, July 2, 1958, at Melilotus alba (R. C. Bechtel); 2 cf cf , 

 23 mi. E. Fallon, Churchill County, June 20, 1958, at Dalea polyadenia (J. W. 

 IMacSwain) ; cf, same locality, June 20, 1958 (E. G. Linsley) ; 9 , Fernley, Lyon 

 County, Aug. 15, 1953 (R. M. Bohart); c?, 4 mi. NE. Fernley, Lyon County, 

 May 30, 1958 (T. R. Haig); cf, Nixon, Washoe County, June 20, 1927 (E. C. 

 Van Dyke); 4 cf cf , same locality, June 21, 1960, June 24, 1961 at Tetradymia 

 canescens (F. D. Parker); 9,5 d^ cf , same locality, June 22, July 3, 1962 (R. J. 

 Gill); 2 cf cf , same locality, June 22, 1962 (R. M. Bohart); cT, same locality, 

 July 3, 1962 {U. E. Irwin); cf, same locality, Aug. 14, 1963 (E. J. Montgomery); 

 9, Pyramid Lake, Washoe County, July 19, 1954 (R. M. Bohart); cf, Reno, 

 Washoe County, July 15, 1962 (F. D. Parker); cf, Sandy, Clark County, July 24, 

 1958 (R. C. Bechtel); cf, same locality, July 30, 1959 (F. D. Parker); 9, 3 mi. 

 SE. Schurz, Mineral County, June 27, 1961 (F. D. Parker); cf, Smith, Lyon 

 County, July 3, 1960 (F. D. Parker); cf, same locality, June 26, 1961 (F. D. 

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