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blackish brown, a little paler at the joints; wings weakly infuscate; 

 abdomen entirely ferruginous. 



The male is distinguishable by the upper side of the front and middle 

 tibiae being white and hind femur and basitarsus black. The female 

 has a narrow clypeus, rather flat temple, notaulus absent or indistinct, 

 hind femur black, and no white at middle of fiagellum or sometimes a 

 very little white. See the key for fiu"ther female characters. 



Specimens (76 cT, 1139): From Colorado; Connecticut (East Hart- 

 ford and South Meriden) ; Florida (Daytona and Larkins in Dade Co.) ; 

 Indiana (Morgan Co.); Iowa (Ames); Kentucky (Louisville); Maine 

 (Salsbury Cove) ; Maryland (Takoma Park) ; Massachusetts (Am- 

 herst, Brookline, Holhston, Lexington, Nantucket, Petersham, and 

 Woods Hole); Michigan (Ann Arbor, Arenac Co., Bangor, Bay Co., 

 Cheboygan, Douglas Lake, East Lansing, George Reserve in Liv- 

 ingston Co., Midland Co., Montcalm Co., Otsego Co., Owosso, and 

 South Haven) ; New Hampshire (Hampton and Lake of the Clouds 

 on Mount Washington); New Jersey (Freehold, Jamesburg, Manas- 

 quan, Moorestown, and Ramsey); New York (Babylon, Bemus Point, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Farmingdale, Flatbush, Ludlowville, Mount 

 Marcy at 5,344 ft.. New Rochelle, Orient, Oswego, Potter Swamp in 

 Yates Co., Rochester Junction, and Six Mile Creek near Ithaca); 

 North Carolina (Balsam, summit of Black Mts., and Mount Mitchell 

 at 5,200 ft.); Ohio (Alum Creek in Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, 

 Delaware Co., Hocking Co., Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island, Scioto 

 Co., and Union Co.); Ontario (Elsinore in Bruce Co., Grand Bend, 

 Ottawa, and Vineland Station) ; Pennsylvania (Arcndtsville, Paupack, 

 and Philadelphia) ; Prince Edward Island (Dalvay House in Canadian 

 National Park) ; Quebec (Hemmingford) ; Rhode Island (Buttonwoods 

 and Westerly) ; Tennessee (Gatlinburg at 6,600 ft.) ; Texas (Mineral 

 Wells) ; Vermont (Rutland) ; Virginia (Chain Bridge, Dixie Landing, 

 Dunn Loring, Falls Church, and Vienna) ; West Vh'ginia (Rockport) ; 

 and Wisconsin (Gays MiUs, Milwaukee, and Sturgeon Bay). 



Most collection dates are in June and July. Those outside of these 

 two months are: April 8 at Daytona, Fla.; May 9 at FaUs Church, 

 Va.; May 12 at Vienna, Va.; May 20 in Hocking Co., Ohio, and in 

 Montcahii Co., Mich.; May 21 at Babylon, N.Y.; May 21 and 27 at 

 Dixie Landing, Va.; August 1 to 15 at Rutland, Vt.; August 4 at Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., and at Dalvay House, Canadian National Park, P.E.I. ; 

 August 6 at Elsinore, Ont.; August 13 at Potters Swamp, Yates Co., 

 N.Y.; August 20 at 5,200 ft. on Mount Mitchell, N.C.; and August 24 

 at Lake of the Clouds, Mount Washington, N.H. 



There is one reared specimen : 9, reared from head of Rudbeckia am- 

 plex, Mineral Wells, Tex., June 9, 1908, C. R. Jones. 



