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at Ithaca, N.Y.; August 18 at Hornerstown, N.J.; August 19 at Gor- 

 ham, N.H.; and August 19 to 22 in Poudre Canyon at 5,200 ft., 

 Larimer Co., Colo. 



We find the species among the coarse grasses and sedges of marshy 

 meadows. 



This species is transcontinental in the Canadian and Transition 

 zones and occm's also in Eurasia. 



2. Hidryta nigricoxus (Provancher) 



Cryptus nigricoxus Provancher, 1888, Additions et corrections au volume ii de la 

 faune entomologique du Canada traitant des hymenopteres, p. 361; d^. 

 T3'pe: d^. Cap Rouge, Que. (Quebec). 



Brachycryptus niger Cushman, 1926, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 67, art. 23, p. 7; 

 c?, ?. Type: ?, Ohio ( Wasliington) . 



Front wing 3.1 to 5.0 mm. long; mesopleurum mostly with distinct 

 punctures; fu'st tergite about 4.2 as long as wide in male, about 3.7 

 as long as wide in female; spiracle of second tergite separated from 

 margin of tergite by about 0.3 its diameter m male, by about 1.0 its 

 diameter in female; tip of ovipositor about 4.0 as long from nodus to 

 apex as it is deep at nodus. 



Black. Apical part of mandible stained with ferrugmous; femora 

 fulvous to brownish black, usually fulvous; if hind femur is fulvous, 

 its apical 0.2 ± is infuscate; front and middle tibiae fulvous; front and 

 middle tarsi brown, paler at the joints; hind tibia and tarsus fuscous; 

 wings wealdy infuscate; abdomen blackish, the apex of fu'st tergite, 

 apical 0.1 to 0.4 of second tergite, and usuall}^ apical margin to apical 

 0.3 of third tergite fulvous or dusky fulvous; tergites 6 and 7 of female 

 with a median apical white spot. 



Specimens (30 cT, 99) : From Massachusetts (Framingham and War- 

 wick); Michigan (Clare Co., Huron Co., Ogemaw Co., 2 miles west 

 of Remus, and Wexford Co.) ; Minnesota (Itasca Park) ; New Jersey 

 (Clementon, Pemberton, and Thompsons Beach near Heislerville) ; 

 New York (Beaver Creek on McLean Reservation, Greene Co., 

 Peekskill, Poughkeepsie, Rome, and Yonkcrs) ; North Carolina (High- 

 lands at 3,800 ft.); Nova Scotia (Hunter Creek near Baddeck); 

 Ontario (Dow's Swamp near Ottawa); Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh); 

 Quebec (Parke Reserve in Kamouraska Co. at 950 ft.) ; and Rhode 

 Island (Kingston and Westerly) . 



Most collection dates are in June and Jul3^ Those outside of this 

 range are: May 24 at Clementon, N.J.; May 30 in Huron Co., Mich.; 

 August 3 at Rome, N.Y.; August 11 in Ogemaw Co., Mich.; and 

 August 24 and 26 in Parke Reserve, Kamouraska Co., Que. 



This species occurs in the Alleghanian fauna. 



