﻿NEARCTIC SPECIES OF GASTERUPTIIDAE — TOWNES 145 



This species occurs in British Columbia and in the United States 

 from the Pacific to Montana, Utah, and Arizona. Most locaHty 

 records are in the Transition Zone. 



12. BHYDINOFOENUS KAWEAHENSIS Bradley 



Figure 15, k 



Rhydinofoenus kaweahensis Bradley, Deutsche Ent. Zeitscbr., 1909, p. 39. Type: 

 ? , Kaweah River, Tulare County, Calif. (Ithaca). 



First abscissa of subdiscoidal vein absent; pronotum more or less 

 ferruginous. 



Forewing about 5.0 mm. long, lacking the first abscissa of the sub- 

 discoidal vein (fig. 15, k, this vein present in all other Nearctic 

 species) ; mandible without the usual small preapical tooth (this tooth 

 present in all other Nearctic species); top of head with very fine, 

 close punctures; temple nearly flat; head about 0.38 as wide at occipital 

 carina as at eyes; occipital carina separated from head by a sharp 

 groove, sharply reflexed, about 0.12 as wide as the flagellum, unsculp- 

 tured; propleurum about 1.6 as long as the width of the mesoscutum, 

 mat and with close very fine punctures and some transverse wrinkling; 

 lateral lobe of mesoscutum of female mat and with weak fine punc- 

 tures, medially rugose; lateral lobe of mesoscutum of male polished, 

 or subpoHshed and finely rugosopunctate ; ovipositor sheath about 1.4 

 as long as forewing. 



Blackish. Mandible and tegula fulvous; apical edge of clypeus, all 

 or much of pronotum, and a little to most of mesopleurum, meta- 

 pleurum, and propodeum brownish ferruginous; legs brown to black- 

 ish, the hind coxa often ferruginous basally and the hind tibia with a 

 whitish subbasal band; apical 0.12 ± of second to fifth tergites tinged 

 with ferruginous; apical 0.2 ± of ovipositor sheath white. 



Specimens .—9 , Los Angeles County, Calif. (Washington), cf , Red- 

 lands, Cahf., F. R. Cole (Washington), cf , Turlock, Calif., April 9, 

 1936, G. E. and R. M. Boliart (Bohart). 9, Opelousas, La., June 15, 

 1897, G. R. Pilate (Washington), cf, Richmond, Tex., March 10, 

 1907, R. A. Cushman (Washington), d", Willis, Tex., 1903, J. C. 

 Bridwell (Washington), cf, 9, San Rafael Jicoltepec, Mexico (Wash- 

 ington). 



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