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tarsi brown apically; hind coxa, trochanters, and femur ferruginous, 

 the apical 0.15± of the femur often weakly infuscate; hind tibia red- 

 dish brown, its basal 0.2 white; hind tarsus white, its last segment 

 black and as much as the basal 0.6 of its first segment fuscous; abdo- 

 men light ferruginous, the basal 0.5 and apical 0.1 of its first segment 

 yellowish, tergite 7 often infuscate, and a large apical spot on tergite 

 7 white. Sometimes the median apical part of tergite 6 is white. 



Female: Facial and frontal orbits, clypeus, and mandible usually 

 white but sometimes brown or black; palpi fulvous; antenna bro\vn, 

 paler basally, the flagellum with a median white stripe above that 

 covers about 6 segments; collar, lower margin of pronotum, usually 

 upper margm of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, scutellum, post- 

 scutellum, and spot of variable size below each propodeal crest, white; 

 front and middle legs fulvoferruginous, their fifth tarsal segments 

 brownish; hind coxa, trochanters, and femur ferrugmous, the apical 

 0.15± of the femur often weakly infuscate; hind tibia pale brownish 

 ferruginous, its basal 0.2 stramineous; hind tarsus fulvous; abdomen 

 light ferruginous, the fifth, sixth, and seventh tergites usually more or 

 less infuscate above, the seventh with a large median apical white 

 spot. Sometimes, in specimens tending toward the subspecies ontar- 

 iensis, the fourth and following tergites are infuscate. 



Norton's types were from eastern Connecticut, on the border of 

 the range of the subspecies ontariensis, and their characters are inter- 

 mediate. They seem a little closer to the southern form, however, 

 so the name is applied here. 



Specimens (23 cf, 259): From Alabama (Kuslila, Pyriton in Clay 

 Co., and Wilson Dam): Connecticut (New Haven); Florida (Gaines- 

 ville, Jacksonville, Monticello, and Torreya State Park) ; Georgia (At- 

 lanta, Billy's Island in Okefenokee Swamp, and Griffin) ; Illinois 

 (Shawnee National Forest near Harrisburg) ; Maryland (Patuxent Ref- 

 uge near Bowie); Massachusetts (Horseneck Beach near Westport); 

 New York (Sea Cliff); North Carolina (Kill Devil Hills, Southern 

 Pines, Wake Co., and Wilson Co.); Ohio (Bedford); Pennsylvania 

 (Sprmg Mills); South Carolina (Charleston and Greenville); and Vir- 

 gmia (Chincoteague Island, Dunn Loring, Petersburg, and Vienna). 



Dates of collection indicate an adult season from late spring to 

 mid-fall. Unusually early and late dates are: April 8 in Torreya 

 State Park, Fla.; April 11 at Gamesville, Fla.; May 4 in Wake Co., 

 N.C.; May 26 at Bowie, Md.; October 12 in Wilson Co., N.C.; and 

 October 29 at Vienna, Va. There are 3 lots of specimens reared from 

 Neodiprion lecontei, 1 from N. abbotii?, 2 from Diprion similis, and 1 

 from "pupa from under bark of pine stump." 



This subspecies occurs in the Carolinian and Austroriparian faunas. 



