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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 



PART 3 



Figures 8, 9. — Localities: 8 (left), Apsilops hirtifrons; 9 (right), A. bicolor. 



fulvous to fuscous, darker apically; wings weakly infuscate; first ab- 

 dominal segment black, its apical 0.2 to 0.5 ferruginous; second and 

 following tergites ferruginous, in the male often partly infuscate and 

 sometimes mostly fuscous. 



Specimens (16 cf, 269): From Alberta (Wabamun); California (2 

 miles northwest of Blue Lake in Lassen Co., Crescent City, Davis 

 Creek in Modoc Co., Hackamore in Modoc Co., and 6 miles south of 

 Macdoel in Siskiyou Co.); Idaho (Chatcolet, Kellogg, Priest Lake, 

 and 6 miles north of Roberts); Manitoba (Aweme and Churchill); 

 Massachusetts (Nantucket); Michigan (Douglas Lake in Cheboygan 

 Co., George Reserve in Livingston Co., and Wexford Co.); Minnesota 

 (Big Trout Lake near Pine River); Ohio (Put-in-Bay on South Bass 

 Island); Ontario (Ottawa); Oregon (Siltcoos Lake); Saskatchewan 

 (Pike Lake and Regina); South Dakota (5 miles east of Britton); 

 Washington (Bonaparte Lake in Okanagon Co. at 3,600 ft.); and 

 Wyoming (Centennial at 8,000 ft.). 



Dates of collection are distributed from late spring to late summer. 

 The earliest and latest dates are: March 24 in Siskiyou Co., Calif.; 

 May 24 at Pike Lake, Sask. ; May 28 in the George Reserve, Living- 

 ston Co., Mich.; August 28 at Big Trout Lake, Pine River, Minn.; 

 and September 10 at Nantucket, Mass. There is one reared speci- 

 men: cf, from Schoenobius melinellus, Douglas Lake, Cheboygan Co., 

 Mich., Aug. 4, 1936, W. C. Frohne. 



We have collected the species only once, a female swept from a 

 marshy meadow of coarse grass at Crescent City, Calif. 



This species is transcontinental, in the Transition and Canadian 

 zones. 



