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PAKT b 



Figures 46, 47. — Localities: 46 (left), Ariiranis albicollaris albicollaris; 47 (right), ^. a. 



clypeata. 



June 16, 1933, W. J. Brown (Ottawa), cf, Kerrville, Tex., Apr. 18, 

 1959, W. Mason (Ottawa). cT, San Antonio, Tex., Apr. 3, 1947, 

 H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, Laurel Lake, near Jacksonville, Vt., 

 July 2, 1935, Harry D. Pratt (St. Paul), cf , reared from cocoon under 

 codlin moth band, Leesburg, Va., June 1, 1920, L.A.Stearns (Washing- 

 ton), c^, no data (Townes). 



This subspecies is known from widely scattered localities in the 

 United States east of the Rocky Mountains and from Manitoba, 

 Canada. It has been reared from Phlyctaenia tertialis. 



7b. Aritranis albicollaris clypeata, new subspecies 



Punctation a little finer than in subspecies albicollaris, especially on 

 temple and on tergites 2 and 3; groove between face and clypeus 

 rather weak. 



Male : Black. Mandible and central part of clypeus pale yellow or 

 fulvous; palpi whitish, brownish apically; scape blacldsh brown; col- 

 lar, tegula, subtegular ridge, hind corner of pronotum, scutellum, and 

 postscutellum, pale yellow, fulvous, or ferruginous; thorax often with 

 ferruginous stains or areas of various extent, especially on metapleu- 

 rum and propodeum; front and middle legs ferruginous, their tarsi 

 brown apically; hind coxa, trochanters, and femur ferruginous; hind 

 tibia and first two segments of hind tarsus ferruginous brown, the tibia 

 ferruginous basally and below and the second tarsal segment with its 

 apical 0.3 ± white; segments 3 and 4 of hind tarsus white, the fifth 

 segment blackish; wings with a faint reddish brown tinge; abdomen 

 uniformly ferruginous. 



Female: Ferruginous. Head black, the clypeus fulvous; mandible 

 fulvous ; palpi dark brown ; antenna black, the scape fulvous, and the 



