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kota (Greenwood's Slough near Grand Forks and Stevens Town- 

 ship in Ramsey Co.); Ohio (Cleveland, Greene Co., and Puritas 

 Springs in Cuyahoga Co.); Ontario (Constance Bay, Dow's Swamp 

 near Ottawa, Gananoque, Orilha, and Ottawa) ; Pennsylvania (Crisp 

 m Westmoreland Co., and Spring Brook); Quebec (Hemmingford 

 and Queen's Park in Aylmer) ; Tennessee (Great Smoky Mountains 

 state road to Newfound Gap at 3,500 ft.) ; Virginia (Falls Church and 

 Rosslyn); West Virginia (Bolivar and Cheat Mt. at 2,000 ft. in Ran- 

 dolph Co.); and Wisconsin (Rib Mountain State Park). 



Dates of collection are from mid-spring to late summer. The 

 earliest and latest dates are: May 8 at Aylmer, Que.; May 15 at South 

 Hadley, Mass., at Ithaca, N.Y., and at McLean Bogs Reserve, Tomp- 

 kins Co., N.Y.; May 22 at Preston, Minn., and at SjTacuse, N.Y.; 

 September 10 at Cleveland, Ohio; and September 21, 22, and 25 at 

 Bolivar, W. Va. 



There is one reared specimen : 9, from Carpocapsa pomonella, Carver 

 Co., Minn., material collected Aug. 8, 1940, emergence Aug. 21,1940, 

 Philip Marvin. 



This species occurs in the Alleghanian famia. 



9. Ischnus minor, new species 



Front wing of male 3.3 to 6.5 mm. long, of female 3.4 to 6.1 mm. 

 long; body slender to moderately stout; clypeus moderately narrow to 

 very narrow; segments of female flagellum slender to moderateh^ 

 stout; tyloids on 4 or 5 segments, strong, rather sharp, placed almost 

 in line with long axes of the segments and extending about 0.85 the 

 length of the segments; mesoscutum weakly to strongly mat, or some- 

 times subpolished, with small, moderately strong punctures, the 

 punctures on lateral lobe separated by about their diameter, on me- 

 dian lobe slightly denser; scutellum with lateral carinae only at its 

 basal corners; metapleurum with rather close, moderate sized punc- 

 tures, in female with strong interspersed, irregular wrinkling that 

 obscures the punctures; propodeum rugulose; apical carina of propo- 

 deum with its median 0.35 ± lacking, sublaterally sharp but not 

 strong, sometimes the entire carina almost or quite lacking; post- 

 petiole mat, with small, weak punctures that are separated by about 

 1.5 their diameter; second tergite mat, with fine, weak punctures that 

 are separated by about 0.5 to 2.5 their diameter, being denser on the 

 basal part of the tergite than on the apical part. 



Male: Black. Entire face or sometimes only the sides of face, 

 cheek, more or less of an orbital mark but always interrupted on up- 

 per part of temple and always with some mark at top of eye and bottom 

 of temple, and mandible, white; palpi white, brownish apically; 

 flagellum with a narrow white band, rarely the band obscure or ab- 



