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Figures 4, 5. — Localities: 4 (left), Baryceros audax audax; 5 (right), B. a. saundersi. 



Gap, and Ingienook in Dauphin Co.); Rhode Island (Kingston and 

 Westerly); South Carohna (Greenville); Virginia (Arlington, Falls 

 Church, Great Falls, and Mountain Lake in Giles Co.) ; West Virginia 

 (Cheat Mt. in Randolph Co. at 2,000 ft. and Lost River State Park 

 in Hardy Co.); and Wisconsin (Sawyer Co.). 



Collection dates are mostly from August 1 to October 13. Those 

 outside of this range are: July 18 to 22 at Midland, Mich.; July 22 

 and 27 at McLean Reserve, Tompldns Co., N.Y.; July 27 at Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., and at Westerly, R.I.; October 22 and 24 at ArHngton, 

 Va.; and October 30 at Plummers Island, Md. 



This subspecies occurs in the Austroriparian and CaroUnian faunas. 

 It is adult from late summer to mid-fall. 



3b. Baryceros audax saundersi (Crcsson), new combination, new status 



Figure 330, d 



Mesostenus Saundersi Cresson, 1878, Canadian Ent., vol. 10, p. 208; 9. Type: 



9, "Canada West" (Philadelphia). 

 Mesostenus armatus Provancher, 1886. Additions et corrections au volume ii 



de la faune entomologique du Canada traitant des hym^noptSres, p. 76. 



New synonymy. Type: 9, Ottawa, Ont. (Ottawa). 



Male: Similar to color of male of B. audax audax except that 

 mesopleurum has a pair of white spots on its lower half instead of 

 either a curved stripe or a pair of elongate spots. 



Female: Colored like the female of B. audax audax but with less 

 extensive white marldngs, the white spots on head and thorax being 

 usually very small. See figure 330,d. 



Specimens: cf , Ann Arbor, Mich., August 1958, H. andM. Townes 

 (TowTies). 2 0^, 49, Midland Co., Mich., Aug. 22, 1944, Aug. 22, 

 1957, August 1944, Sept. 14, 1956, and Sept. 22, 1958, R. and K. 



