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tion dates are in July and August. Those outside these months are 

 May 1 at CorvaUis, Oreg.; June 14 in the Santa Cruz Mountains of 

 Cahfornia; and June 20 at Alpine, Calif. Also there are rearing dates 

 noted below. Keared specimens comprise: cf, from Trachykele 

 hlondeli gallery in Thuja plicata, Stone Lake, British Columbia, July 

 28, 1925, N. L. Cutler; cT, 9, from Paratimia conicola in cones of 

 Pinus attenuata, Copper, Calif., September 15, 1916, P. D. Sergent; 

 cf, from Paratimia conicola in cones of Pinus attenuata, Del Norte, 

 Calif., October 2, 1913, P. D. Sergent; 2 cT, reared from cone of Pinus 

 attenuata perhaps as parasites of Chrysophana placida or Paratimia 

 conicola, Boulder Creek, Calif. ; 2 9, from Chrysophana placida in cones 

 of Pinu^ attenuata, Orcus Island, Wash., July 14 to 30, 1909, W. M. 

 Mann. 



This species occurs m British Columbia and the Northwestern 

 United States. Its usual hosts are buprestids and cerambycids in pine 

 cones. 



21. AULACOSTETHUS MINOR (Cresson), new combination 



Aulacus minor Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 8, proc. vi, 1880. 

 Type : ? , Nevada (Philadelphia) . 



Tarsal claws each with two teeth; hind femur ferruginous; hind tibia 

 distinctly darker than its femur and tarsus. 



Forewing about 7.5 mm. long; top of head usually a little more 

 shining than in A. editus; wings weakly infumate; otherwise similar to 

 A. editus in color and structui-e except as noted in the key. 



Specimens. — Many males and females from British Columbia 

 (Castlegar Mills, Inverness, Midday Valley at Merritt, Nanaimo 

 Biological Station, Pavilion Lake, Paxton Valley, Revelstoke in the 

 Selkirk Mountains, Robson, Trinity Valley at Lumby, and Victoria); 

 California (Blocksburg, Carrville in Trinity County at 2,400 to 2,500 

 feet, Colfax, Fallen Leaf Lake at 6,300 feet, Fort Seward, Hedge 

 Creek Canyon in the Siskiyou Mountains, Humboldt County, Los 

 Gatos, Meyers, Mineralking, Mosquito, North Fork, Placerville, 

 Pyramid Ranger Station, Santa Cruz Mountains, Shasta Springs, 

 Trinity County at 6,000 feet and at 5,500 feet, and Yosemite at 3,880 

 to 4,000 feet); Idaho (Hartley, McCall, Moscow, Salmon, and 

 Wallace) ; Montana (Lake Roman in Lake County) ; Oregon (Alsea, 

 Alsea Mountain, Antelope Mountain in Harney County at 6,500 feet, 

 Ashland, Black Trail Springs near Elk Lake in Deschutes County at 

 5,000 feet, CorvaUis, Glenwood, Grant County, Lincoln Mountain at 

 Milton, near summit of Marys Peak in Benton County, Melhorn's 

 Mill near Halfway, Oakridge, Oregon Trail Camp in Whitman 

 National Forest at 5,000 feet, Portland, Sandy River at Brightwood, 

 Santiam Pass in Linn County, Sulphur Springs in Benton County, 

 Suttle Lake at 3,435 feet, and Wallowa Mountains in Baker County); 

 Utah (Kamas); Washington (Blue Mountains, Buckeye, Chinook 



