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5b. Agrothereutes abbreviator similaris (Provancher), new status 



Phygadeuon similaris Provancher, 1886, Additions et corrections au volume ii 



de la faune entomologique du Canada traitant des hymenopteres, p. 57; c?. 



Type: cf, Ottawa, Ont. (Ottawa). 

 Aptesis major Davis, 1893, Ent. News, vol. 4, p. 32; 9 . Type: 9 , East Lansing, 



Mich. (East Lansing). 

 Agrothereutes microalatus Cushman, 1927, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 



13, p. 4; 9 . Type: 9 , New England (Washington). 

 Agrothereutes slossonae Cushman, 1927, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 13, 



p. 4; 9. Type: 9i Franconia, N.H. (Washington). 



Second tergite of female rather wealdy mat, with sparse, short, 

 evenly distributed hairs, the hair sockets separated by about 2.0 

 the length of the hairs. All females but one are short winged. The 

 single long winged specimen was laboratory reared from a Neo- 

 diprion lecontei cocoon, collected at Gananoque, Ont., 1938 (Ottawa). 



Male: Black. Frons sometimes with a small whitish orbital 

 mark; clypeus usually black, rarely yellow; mandible entirely black 

 to entirely yellow; palpi stramineous to white; front of scape light 

 brown to black; tegula, usually subtegular ridge, sometimes tip 

 of scutellum, and sometimes postscutellum pale yellow, the tegula 

 sometimes partly or entirely brown; scutellum sometimes ferru- 

 ginous; coxae and trochanters varying from entirely black to entirely 

 ferruginous, the front and middle trochanters usually pale yellow; 

 front and middle femora and tibiae ferruginous, the base of middle 

 tibia paler; front and middle tarsi brown, the middle tarsus darker, 

 both tarsi paler at the joints: hind trochanters usually fuscofer- 

 ruginous or fuscous, the base of the second trochanter paler, often 

 yellow; hind femur ferruginous, its apical 0.2 ± fuscous, sometimes 

 most of the femur brownish; hind tibia brown or fuscous, its basal 

 0.18± whitish, stramineous, or light brown, distinctly paler than 

 the rest of the tibia; hind tarsus fuscous, light brown at the joints; 

 first abdominal segment ferruginous or more or less infuscate, its 

 basal 0.5 and apical 0.1 usually a little paler; tergites 2-4 ferru- 

 ginous, more or less fuscous basally; tergites 5 and following black, 

 the seventh usually with a median apical white spot. 



Female: Black. Antenna brown, light brown basally, the fla- 

 gellum with a median dorsal white stripe that covers about 5.5 seg- 

 ments; palpi brown; tegula fulvous or brown; front and middle legs 

 fulvous or partly or mostly light brown, the bases of their tibiae 

 with an indistinct, narrow, pale band; hind coxa and trochanters 

 fulvous; hind femur brown or fuscous, fulvous, or ferruginous basally ; 

 hind tibia brown, its basal 0.18 with a stramineous or light brown 

 band; second and third tergites ferruginous, or the third tergite 

 partly or entirely fuscous; apicomedian area on seventh tergite 

 white. 



