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lotus but paler, usually with a ferruginous or fulvous and white 

 pattern but often the first trochanters largely infuscate or brown. 



Specimens (41 cf, 579): From Connecticut (Green Falls, Volun- 

 town, and Westport); Kansas; Maine (summit of Mount Katahdin 

 at 5,215 ft., and Orono); Maryland (Takoma Park); Massachusetts 

 (Holliston and Princeton); Michigan (Alcona Co., Ann Arbor, Delta 

 Co., Douglas Lake, Houghton Co., Manistee Co., Midland Co., 

 Montcalm Co., Ogemaw Co., and Schoolcraft Co.); Minnesota (Hast- 

 ings and Itasca State Park); New Hampshire (Jaffrey, Lakes of the 

 Clouds on Mount Washington, and summit of Mount Washington at 

 6,100 to 6,288 ft.); New Jersey (Ramsey); New York (Bemus Point, 

 Connecticut Hill near Trumbull Corner at 2,095 ft. in Tompkins Co., 

 Farmingdale, Greene Co., Hancock, McLean Reservation, Millwood, 

 Oliverea in the Catsldlls, Oneonta, Ringwood near Dryden, Six Mile 

 Creek near Ithaca, and Taughannock near Ithaca); North Carolina 

 (Clingmans Dome at 6,600 ft., Crabtree Meadows in Yancey Co. at 

 3,600 ft., Crestmont in Haywood Co. at 5,100 ft., Hamrick, and Mount 

 Mitchell at 5,200 ft.); Ontario (Georgetown, Ottawa, and Tweed); 

 Pennsylvania (North East); Quebec (Alcove, Aylmer, Brome, Hem- 

 mingford, and Knowlton); Rhode Island (Westerly); Virginia (Falls 

 Church, Galax, and base of Stony Man on Skyline Drive in Shen- 

 andoah National Park at 3,500 ft.); West Virginia (Cheat Mt. at 

 2,000 ft. in Randolph Co.); and Wisconsin (Polk Co.). 



Most collection dates are from June to September 7. Those out- 

 side this range are : May 6 at Ann Arbor, Mich. ; May 9 at Takoma 

 Park, Md.; May 18 at Jaffrey, N.H.; May 24 at Hemmingford, Que.; 

 May 25 at McLean, N.Y.; May 26 at Falls Church, Va.; May 30 in 

 Newaygo Co., Mich.; September 21 at Aylmer, Que.; September 29 

 in New York State; and September 24 and October 2 and 27 at Ring- 

 wood, near Ithaca, N.Y. 



This subspecies occurs in the AUeghanian fauna. 



2. Ischnus cinctipes (Walsh) 



Cryptus cinctipes Walsh, 1873, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 3, p. 72; cf, ?. 



Types: cT, 9, Illinois? (destroyed in Chicago fire of 1871). 

 Phygadeuon f rater cuius Provancher, 1886, Additions et corrections au volume ii 



de la fauna entomologique du Canada traitant des hymenopteres, p. 55; 9- 



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

 Spilocryptus polychrosidis Cushman, 1917, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 



461; cf, 9. Type: 9, North East, Pa. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 3.4 to 6.8 mm. long, of female 3.2 to 6.0 mm. 

 long; body moderately slender; clj^peus narrow; tyloids on about 5 or 

 6 segments, extending about 0.75 the length of each of the segments, 

 rather blunt, set slightly oblique to the long axis of the segments; 

 mesoscutum mat, the median lobe a little more strongly mat than the 



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