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fuscous; tegula and subtegular ridge ivory; mesopleurum and meso- 

 sternum ferruginous except that much or all of prepectus, median 

 stripe on mesosternum, sternaulus, and area just below and behind sub- 

 tegular ridge are black; metapleurum and propodeum ferruginous; 

 front and middle legs ferruginous, the front coxa and trochanters 

 sometimes partly infuscate, the fifth tarsal segments brownish ferrugi- 

 nous; hind leg except tarsus ferruginous, the apical 0,1 ± of femur and 

 apical 0.25 ± of tibia infuscate; first and last segments of hind 

 tarsus brovvTiish ferruginous, the apex of first segment often whitish; 

 segments 2-4 of hind tarsus white, often with ferruginous brown 

 tinges; first three abdominal segments ferruginous; fourth segment 

 ferruginous, usually infuscate apically and often with a small median 

 apical white mark; fifth and following segments black, the sixth 

 usually and fifth sometimes with median apical white marks, the 

 seventh with a large dorsal white mark and the eighth with a smaller 

 one. 



Type: 9, Westerly, R. I., Aug. 25, 1946, M. Townes (Washmgton, 

 USNM 63755). 



Paratypes (61 cf, 389): From Alabama (Langdale); Connecticut 

 (Stonington) ; Georgia (Pomona); Illinois (Decatur and Urbana); 

 Iowa (Iowa Co. and Mount Pleasant); Kansas (Lawrence); Kentucky 

 (Lexington) ; Louisiana (Baton Rouge) ; Maryland (Patuxent Refuge 

 near Bowie and Takoma Park) ; Massachusetts (HoUiston, Mount 

 Toby, and South Hadley); Michigan (Ann Arbor, Grosse He in 

 Wayne Co., and Midland Co.) ; Missouri (New Hartford) ; New Jersey 

 (Moorestown) ; New York (Canajoharie, Cortland, Farmingdale, 

 Gowanda, Ithaca, Laborador Lake in Cortland Co., New RocheUe, 

 and Poughkeepsie) ; North Carolina (Mount Pisgah at 4,600 ft. 

 and Wake Co.) ; Ohio (Akron, Bedford, Columbus, Greenville Town- 

 ship, Hocking Co., and Oak Harbor) ; Ontario (Kearney and Toronto) ; 

 Pennsylvania (Jeannette, North East, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 

 and Progress) ; Quebec (Montreal) ; Rhode Island (Buttonwoods, 

 Kingston, and Westerly); South Carolina (Greenville); Virginia 

 (Charlottesville and Rosslyn) ; West Virginia (Bolivar) ; and Wisconsin 

 (Forest Co. and Madison). 



Dates of collection are mostly in the summer, but range from mid- 

 spring to mid-faU. The earliest and latest records are: April 8 at 

 Pomona, Ga.; May 4 at Bowie, Md.; May 9 at Takoma Park, Md.; 

 May 10 at Mount Pleasant, Iowa and at Toronto, Ont.; September 

 19 at Montreal, Que.; September 29 on Grosse He, Mich.; October 2 

 at Bowie, Md.; October 26 at Charlottesville, Va.; and November 7 

 at Takoma Park, Md. 



Specimens with host data are as follows: cf , reared from Oberea in 

 raspberry stem. Progress, Pa., June 4, H. B. Kirk. 9, reared from 

 Papaipema in Sambucus pith, Decatur, lU., Apr. 4, 1911. 9, reared 



