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piceous medially; first tergite reddish piceous at apex and sides; hind tibia 

 yellow, broadly fuscous at apex, calcaria yellow; hind tarsus fuscous, paler 

 at apex; wings hyaline, venation brown. 



Host. Spruce sawfly. 



Type-locality. Aweme, Manitoba. 



Type. Cat. No. 22202, U. S. N. M. 



Described from two females reared May 31 and June 1, 1915, 

 by N. Criddle. 



The paratype has the yellow color much more extensive, in- 

 cluding two broad longitudinal stripes on the face coalescing 

 laterally with the orbital marks, malar space and cheeks, and 

 most of propleura; scutellar spot also yellow. 



Hyposoter fugitivus variety pacificus, new variety. 



Differs constantly from the typical fugitivus in color as fol- 

 lows : 



Female. Legs darker testaceous, almost brown, front coxae arid front 

 and middle trochanters testaceous instead of white; femora only very ob- 

 scurely tipped with white, the hind femur also only obscurely infuscate 

 subapically; hind tibia with a distinct brownish ventral stripe in the larger 

 white annulus; basal annulus of hind tarsus occupying only about a fourth of 

 the basitarsus; apical third of tibial spurs brownish; humeral angle of 

 pronotum brownish instead of whitish. 



Male. -Differs from female in having the legs paler, the front coxae and 

 front and middle trochanters whitish; hind basitarsus with \vhite annulus 

 almost wanting. From male of the typical fugitivus it differs in having the 

 middle coxae testaceous, by the small tarsal annulus, and by the darker 

 humeral angle of pronotum. 



Type host. Malacosoma pluvialis Dyar. 



Other host. Malacosoma ambisimillis Dyar. 



Type-locality. Takoma, Washington . 



Other localities. San Francisco Co., California; Monterey Co., 

 California; Santa Cruz Mts., California. 



Type. Cat. No. 22146, U. S. N. M. 



Described from two females and one male (Bureau of Ento- 

 mology No. 568) from the type-locality and type host, one 

 female from San Francisco Co. (Bureau of Entomology No. 

 360) evidently reared from a species of Malacosoma, one female 

 from Monterey Co. (Bureau of Entomology No. 415) from 

 Malacosoma ambisimilis Dyar, one male, the allotype (Bureau of 

 Entomology No. 415) from Santa Cruz Mts. from Malacosoma 

 ambisimilis, and one female without locality and bearing only the 

 number 368 and the host remains. All but the last were reared 

 bv Albert Koebele. 



