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spot on the mesoscutum on each side, the lower margin of the 

 mesoepimeron in part sometimes, small posterior medial portion of 

 pectus, and the metascutum anterior to cenchri; tegulae and 

 metaepisternum pale yellow. Mesoscutellum only slightly convex; 

 mesoepisternum from fairly sharply to quite sharply pointed. 



Abdomen — Dark ferruginous; sides of basal tergum yellowish- 

 white. 



Legs — Darkish ferruginous (paler towards the extremities) ; 

 anterior pair yellowish before; coxae sometimes slightly at the base, 

 and approximately the apical half of the posterior femora except 

 beneath, black. 



Wings — Front wings pale honey-yellow; stigma brown, basal 

 half paler; costal cell from fairly to quite strongly translucent; 

 veins black, or blackish, brown towards base of wing. Hind wings 

 faintly honey-yellow; veins brown. 



Length 10.5 — 11 mm. 



Described from two specimens. 



The four specimens which I have seen are quite constant, and 

 are apparently quite distinct from mellina (Norton). 



Habitat — Norway (Norton), Me.; Twin Mountain, N. H.; 

 Gloversville, N. Y. (Aug.); "Can." 



Tenthredella cinctitibiis abdominalis, n. subsp. 



The type is in the collection of the United States National 

 Museum; No. 19094. 



Type locality — "Carriage Road," Mt. Wasington, N. H: 

 (Mr. Geo. Dimmock). 



Female — Differs from cinctitibiis cinctitibiis in having the abdo- 

 men beyond the fourth segment ferruginous and the mesoscutellum 

 only very slightly convex. 



Length 11 mm. 



Described from one specimen. . 



There is another specimen of the same sex in the National 

 Museum, but it bears no locality label. 



Tenthredella lobata maculosa, n. subsp. 



Allantus lobatiis var. a. Norton, Bost. Jourii. Nat. Hist. VH. 

 1860, p. 25:3,. n. 32, 9 . 



