60 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 paet 3 



There are three subspecies, differing in color as keyed and described 

 below: 



1. Hind coxa and femur black; tergites 2 and 3 mostly or entirely black; range: 



New Brunswick and Newfoundland . . 6b. lophyri obscurus, new subspecies 



Hind coxa, some or most of hind femur, and all of tergites 2 and 3 



ferruginous 2 



2. Apex of hind femur strongly infuscate or most of the femur fuscous; tergite 6 



of male and tergite 4 of female black; propodeum of female entirely black; 

 range: Quebec and New Jersey to British Columbia, mostly in the Canadian 



zone 6a. lophyri ontariensis, new subspecies 



Apex of hind femur weakly or not at all infuscate; tergite 6 of male and usually 

 tergite 4 of female ferruginous; propodeum of female usually marked with 

 white; range: Austroriparian and Carolinian faunas. 



6c. lophyri lophyri (Norton) 



6a. Agrolhereules lophyri ontariensis, new subspecies 



Punctures on head and thorax a little weaker than in the sub- 

 species lophyri. 



Male: Blaclc. Rather wide frontal and facial orbit (but narrowed 

 or interrupted just above antennal socket), part or all of clypeus, part 

 or all of mandible, palpi, collar, lower margin and hind corner of pro- 

 notum, usually a spot on upper end of epomia, tegula, subtegular 

 ridge, scutellum, postscutellum, and a mark like a broad inverted U 

 on propodeum, white; front of scape stramineous to light brown; 

 front and middle legs fulvous, the front coxa sometimes fuscous basall}^, 

 both coxae usually partly white, the trochanters mostly white but the 

 basal one infuscate above, the bases of tibiae whitish or pale fulvous, 

 and the tarsi light bro^vn with the last segment blackish brown ; hind 

 coxa, second trochanter, and femur ferruginous, the apical 0.18 to 0.3 

 of the femur fuscous; hind first trochanter fuscoferruginous to fuscous; 

 hind tibia fuscous or dark brown, its basal 0.2 white; hind tarsus 

 white, its fifth segment black, its first segment usually fuscous basally 

 but at least the apical 0.4 of the first segment white; first abdominal 

 segment ferruginous, its basal 0.5 and apical 0.1 yellowish fulvous; 

 tergites 2-5 ferruginous, the apex of fifth tergite black; tergites 6 and 

 7 black, the seventh with a large median apical white spot. 



Female: Black. Palpi bro\vn; antenna dark brown, lighter brown 

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

 about 5.5 segments; tegula dark brown, rarely white; collar usually 

 with some white; subtegulai ridge and lower margin of pronotum rarely 

 white; front and middle legs ferruginous but with a weak infuscation, 

 the bases of their tibiae stramineous; hind coxa, trochanters, and 

 femur ferruginous, the trochanters sometimes infuscate and the apical 

 0.3 to 0.7 of the femur fuscous; hind tibia and tarsus dark brown, 

 the basal 0.2 of the tibia white; wings weakly infuscate; first three 



