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white stripe that covers about 8 segments; tyloids light brown; tegiila 

 white, its apex usually light brown; front and middle coxae and tro- 

 chanters whitish, the coxae more or less brown basally and mesally, and 

 sometimes with an external bro\\Tiish area; front and middle legs 

 beyond coxae pale fulvous, their tarsi even paler but brownish at the 

 tips; hind coxa blackish, with a whitish or pale fulvous area on apex 

 below, sometimes the apex more extensively pale; hind first trochanter 

 whitish to black, usually stramineous mth its hind side brown; hind 

 second trochanter and femur fulvoferruginous, the apical 0.18± of the 

 femur fuscous; hind tibia brown, blackish brown apically; segment 1 

 of hind tarsus fuscous, its basal 0.12 and usually its apical 0.2 to 0.6 

 white, rarely the entire segment white; segments 2-5 of hind tarsus 

 white, the fifth segment brown apically; wings hyaline; tergites 2-4 

 and usually the apical 0.15± of tergite 1, ferruginous, usually more or 

 less of apex of tergite 4 black. 



Female: Black. Alandible dark ferruginous apically; palpi fus- 

 cous but the apex of segments 2 and 3 of maxillary palpus usually 

 white; fiagellum blackish brown, with a median white band that covers 

 about 6 segments; front coxa, first trochanter, and front side of sec- 

 ond trochanter brown or fuscous; front femm* often with some infusca- 

 tion basally; rest of front and middle legs fulvoferruginous, their 

 fifth tarsal segments with a brownish tinge; hind coxa, trochp.nters, 

 and femur ferruginous, the apical 0.15 ± of femur fuscous; segment 1 

 of hind tarsus brownish, its base narrowly and its apex more broadly 

 whitish or pale bro\vn; segments 2-5 of hind tarsus whitish, the apical 

 part of fifth segment brown ; wings hyaline ; segments 1-3 of abdomen 

 ferruginous, the fu'st segment a little infuscate basally; segment 4 

 of abdomen more or less ferruginous, its apex always fuscous; tergite 

 7 with a very large median white spot. 



Specimens (132 cf, 2359): From British Columbia (Robson, Salmon 

 Arm, and Vancouver); Connecticut (Ledyard); District of Columbia 

 (Washington); Florida (Alachua Co.); Georgia (White Sulphur 

 Springs in Hall Co.); Illinois (Chicago); Kentucky (Mammoth Cave 

 National Park); Maine (Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Norway, and 

 Orono); Maryland (Cabin John, Club Hill, Plummers Island, and 

 Takoma Park); Massachusetts (Middlesex Fells, Sharon, and Taun- 

 ton); Michigan (Ann Arbor, Clare Co., Douglas Lake, East Lansing, 

 Huron Mts., Ionia Co., Loon Lake in Lake Co., Menominee Co., 

 Midland Co., Pinckney, Rudd's MUls in Oakland Co., and Saginaw 

 Co.); Minnesota (Hennepin Co., Olmsted Co., and St. Louis Co.); 

 New Brunswick (Campbellton) ; New Hampshire (Conway, Franconia, 

 Hanover, Holderness, and Mount Washington) ; New Jersey (Browns 

 Mills, Moorestown, Paterson, and Ringoes); New Mexico ("Hells 

 Canyon," Jemez Springs, "Monzano National Forest," and Rio 



