﻿NEARCTIC SPECIES OF GASTERUPTIIDAE — TOWNES 135 



2 9, Guaynias, Mexico, April 6 and 10, 1921, E. P. Van Duzee (San 

 Francisco and Townes). cf, Mesquital, Baja California, Mexico, 

 July 28, 1938, Michelbacher and Koss (Townes). 9, San Evaristo, 

 Baja California, Mexico (San Francisco). 



This seems primarily a Mexican species that occ^u's also in the 

 adjacent United States and in the far west as far north as Oregon. 



5. KHYDINOFOENUS NEVADAE (Bradley), new combination 



Foenus nevadae Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 34, p. 114, 1908. Type: 

 9 , Nevada (Philadelphia). 



Occipital carina high, weakly reflexed, not wrinkled basally; lateral 

 lobe of mesoscutum with a number of coarse punctures. 



Forewing about 6.0 mm. long; top of head with fine close punctures 

 and a suggestion of fine transverse wrinkling; head about 0.39 as wide 

 at occipital carina as at eyes; temple very weakly convex; occipital 

 carina not distinctly separated from the head, which merges with it 

 gradually, somewhat reflexed, about 0.25 as wide as the flagellum, 

 basally with very fine punctm'cs; propleurum about 1.05 as long as the 

 mesoscutum is wide, with close fine punctures and more or less trans- 

 versely or irregularly rugulose; lateral lobe of mesoscutum pohshed, 

 with numerous fine punctm-es and interspersed coarse deep punctures 

 that are separated by about their diameter; ovipositor sheath about 

 2.2 as long as the forewing. 



Blackish. Mandible brownish ferruginous; flagellum somewhat 

 stained with ferruginous, darkest basally; tegula ferruginous to brown- 

 ish ferruginous; fore and middle legs ferruginous to brown, their 

 coxae often darker than the rest and their tibiae whitish basally; 

 hind legs brownish ferruginous to blackish, their tibiae with a paler, 

 often whitish, band; hind tibia frequently blackish above and the rest 

 ferruginous brown except for the subbasal pale band; hind basi tarsus 

 of female sometimes marked with whitish; abdomen largely ferrugi- 

 nous, more or less infuscate basally, apically, and above, and usually 

 with some infuscation centrally on the second to fifth tergites. Apical 

 0.2 ± of ovipositor sheath whitish. 



Specimens. — cf, Colfax, Calif., June 18, 1936, R. M. Bohart 

 (Townes). 9, El Portal, Cahf., May 30, 1938, R. M. Bohart (Townes). 

 cf , Palm Springs, Calif., May 20, 1917, E. P. Van Duzee (Townes). 

 9, Placerville, Calif., June 25, 1937, G. P. Engelhardt (San Francisco), 

 cf , Arroyo Seco Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, Calif., July 6, 1912, 

 J. C. Bridwell (Washington). 9, Soboba Springs, Riverside County, 

 Calif., June 5, 1917, E. P. Van Duzee (San Francisco), cf , Sonoma 

 County, Cahf., June 26, 1919, J. A. Kusche (San Francisco), cf. 

 Strawberry VaUey, El Dorado County, Calif., August 5, 1912, E. C. 

 Van Dyke (San Francisco). 3 cf, 3 9, Yerington, Lyon County, 



