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hercyniae, 2 from Pristiphora erichsonii, and 1 each from Neodiprion 

 abietis, N. lecontei, and N. sertifer. 



This subspecies occm-s in the Canadian zone and cooler parts of 

 the Transition zone, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains 

 and Alaska. It has been reared from cocoons of several species of 

 sawflies. 



5c. Agrothereutes abbreviator rufopectus Cushman, new status 



Agrothereuies rufopectus Cushman, 1927, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 13, 

 p. 4; 9. Type: 9, Bilby, Alta. (Washington). 



Second tergite of female mat, with rather sharp microreticulation, 

 with short, moderately sparse, evenly distributed hairs, the hair 

 sockets separated by about 1.5 the length of the hairs. Twenty-six 

 females are known. Of these 6 have short wings, 19 long wings, 

 and 1 has wings of intermediate length. The specimen with in- 

 termediate wings was reared from a cocoon of Pristiphora erichsonii 

 at Phoenix, B.C., June 20, 1950 (Ottawa). Two long winged fe- 

 males were reared from the same batch of cocoons and are also in the 

 Ottawa collection. 



Male: Ground color black, or in two specimens from Glendale, 

 Calif., the ground color fulvous with the head mostly black. Cly- 

 peus black, or sometimes white; mandible entirely yellow to entirely 

 black ; palpi whitish to fuscous ; scape black or blackish brown ; tegula 

 white, brown, or blackish; subtegular ridge, scutellum, and post- 

 scutellum sometimes marked with yellow; propodum rarely with its 

 apical part ferruginous; front and middle coxae black, partly black, 

 or rarely entirely yellowish and fulvous; hind coxa black; trochanters 

 varying from mostly pale yellow to entirely black, the hind first tro- 

 chanter nearly always black or infuscate ; femora fulvous or ferruginous 

 the apical 0.2 of hind femur infuscate; front and middle tibiae ful- 

 vous; hind tibia reddish brown, its basal 0.2 ± often paler brown than 

 the rest; tarsi brown, paler at the joints, the hind tarsus darkest and 

 front tarsus palest; first abdominal segment black with its apex fer- 

 ruginous or entirely ferruginous; tergites 2-4 ferruginous, sometimes 

 fuscous basally; tergite 5 black, sometimes more or less ferruginous; 

 tergites 6 and 7 black, the seventh sometimes with a small median 

 apical white spot. 



Female : Head entirely black or the clypeus and sides of face stained 

 with ferruginous; mandible black; palpi fuscous; antenna brown, pale 

 brown basally, the flagellum sometimes with a median whitish stripe 

 above that covers as much as 4 segments; thorax entirely black to 

 entirely ferruginous or rarely fulvous, in short winged specimens from 

 southern British Columbia and Alberta often black with the meso- 

 scutum and more or less of other areas ferruginous; legs ferruginous or 



