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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 



PART 3 



Figures 18-20. — Localities: 18 (left), Agrothereutes lophyri ontariensis; 19 (center), A. I' 



obscurus; 20 (right), A. I. lophyri. 



Female: Black. Palpi and antenna blackish bro^vn, the flagellum 

 with a median white stripe above that covers about 5 segments; 

 tegula and legs dark brown or blackish, the bases of the front and mid- 

 dle tibiae stramineous and the basal 0.15 of the hind tibia white; 

 wings weakly infuscate; apex of first tergite and base and apex of 

 second tergite tinged with ferruginous; seventh tergite with a large 

 median white spot. 



Type: 9, reared from Neodiprion abietis, Black Duck, St. George, 

 Newfoundland, Sept. 8, 1947 (Ottawa). 



Paratypes: 2cf , reared from Neodi/prion abietis, Fredericton, N.B., 

 Sept. 6 and 17, 1934, C. E. Atwood (Ottawa). 9, reared from Neodi- 

 prion abietis, "GoUant's" (Nfld.?), June 25, 1947 (Ottawa). 



6c. Agrothereutes lophyri lophyri (Norton) 



Cryplus Lophyri Norton, 1869, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, p. 326; cT, ?. 

 Lectotype: 9, Connecticut (Philadelphia). 



Punctures on head and thorax a little stronger than in the other 

 two subspecies. 



Male: Black. Wide orbits on front, face, and lower part of temple, 

 sometimes a central spot on face, cheek, clypeus, mouth parts, often 

 lower part of propleurum, collar, stripes on lower and upper margins 

 of pronotum (the stripe on upper margin sometimes interrupted), 

 tegula, subtegular ridge, scutellum, postscutellum, often small spot 

 on mesopleurum and metapleurum next to their coxal sockets, part of 

 upper division of metapleurum, much or all of hind face of propodeum, 

 and front and middle coxae and trochanters, white, the coxae more or 

 less fulvous basally; scape fulvous, brownish above; front and middle 

 legs beyond trochanters fulvous, their tibiae paler at base and their 



