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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 



PART 3 



9b. Agrolhereutes mandator americanus, new subspecies 



Mesopleural punctures and wrinlding relatively strong. 



Male: Black. Face and frontal orbit white, the face usually 

 with a brown line on each side of the middle, extending from antennal 

 socket to clypeal fovea, the line often incomplete, sometimes absent; 

 clypeus white, its apical margin dark brown; front of scape white; 

 mandible white; palpi white, brownish apically; collar, often lower 

 part of propleurum, tegula, subtegular ridge, sometimes scutellum, 

 and postscutellum, and sometimes marks next to the sternaulus, 

 white; metapleurum sometimes with a postmedian ferruginous spot; 

 propodeum sometimes with a ferruginous or whitish spot below each 

 of its crests; front and middle coxae white, the coxae often with an 

 apical external fuscous spot; front and middle femora and tibiae 



Figure 23. — Localities for Jg- 

 rothereutes mandator ameri- 



canus. 



fulvous, the bases of the tibiae whitish; front and middle tarsi light 

 brown, pale at the joints, their fifth segments blackish; hind coxa 

 ferruginous, its apex paler; hind trochanters mostly pale fulvous; 

 hind femur ferruginous, its apical 0.2 more or less infuscate, its ex- 

 treme apex often white; hind tibia dark brown, its basal 0.2 white; 

 hind basitarsus varying from entirely white to black with its basal 

 0.1 and apical 0.25 white; segments 2-4 of hind tarsus white ; segment 

 5 of hind tarsus black; fu-st abdominal segment ferruginous, its basal 

 0.3 ± infuscate; tergites 2-5 ferruginous, the apex of the fifth usually 

 fuscous; tergites 6 and 7 black, the sixth ferruginous basolaterally 

 and the seventh with a median apical white spot. 



Female: Black. Sides of face and usually the ventral part of 

 clypeus white; mandible usually with a ferruginous or whitish mark; 

 palpi dark brown; basal three segments of flagellum mostly reddish 



