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Male: Black. Face, clypeus, cheek, mouth parts, mark on front of 

 scape and pedicel, most of propleurum, small stripe on lower margin of 

 pronotum, small hind corner of pronotum, tegula, and front and 

 middle coxae and trochanters, white; front legs beyond trochanters 

 light fulvous (apex of front tarsi of only available specimen missing) ; 

 middle femur and tibia light fulvous, the tibia paler basally; middle 

 tarsus brown; hind coxa and femur fulvous, the apical 0.25 of femur 

 faintly infuscate and its extreme apex whitish; first hind trochanter 

 fulvous, paler below and brownish above; second hind trochanter 

 whitish; hind tibia infuscate brown, its basal 0.18 whitish; hind tarsus 

 fuscous brown, lighter brown at the incisures. 



Female : Black. Face usually with a median whitish mark near its 

 upper margin; labrum whitish; mandible tinged with ferruginous; 

 basal 3 segments of palpi whitish, the rest infuscate; flagellum with a 

 white band covering about 2.3 segments, the band interrupted below; 

 extreme hind corner of pronotum stramineous; tegula white; front and 

 middle coxae, trochanters, and femora fulvous, the femora with a 

 faint apical infuscation except that extreme apex is stramineous ; front 

 tibia stramineous, with a brownish dorsal stripe; front tarsus fulvous 

 brown, its last segment dark brown; middle tibia fulvous brown, 

 paler at base; middle tarsus brown, darkest apically; hind coxa, 

 trochanters, and femur fulvous, the apical 0.25 of femur infuscate 

 except that extreme apex is stramineous; hind tibia fuscous, its basal 

 0.15 stramineous; hind tarsus black, the basitarsus light brown at 

 extreme base. 



Specunens: 9, "reared," Lyme, Conn., May 13, 1918, Champlain 

 (Washmgton). cf, Clare Co., Mich., July 23-28, 1959, K. K. Dreis- 

 bach (Dreisbach). 59, bred from Chamaecy parts, Rye, N.H., W. F. 

 Fiske (Washmgton). 9, Ithaca, N.Y., May 23, 1936, H. Townes 

 (Townes). cT, 9, reared Jan. 13, 1942, and Dec. 6, 1941, Larrimac 

 [Links], Que. (Ottawa). 9, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 

 6,600 ft., Tenn., July 2, 1955, H. and A. Howden (Townes). 



This subspecies occurs in the AUeghanian fauna. 



5. SUBTRIBE SPHECOPHAGINA 



Clypeus small, its apical niargm straight or concave, without a 

 median apical tooth or lobe; mandible about 1.6 as long as it is wide 

 at the middle, its teeth of about equal length; flagellum of moderate 

 thickness, in female less flexible than in other subtribes, its tip not 

 slender, its apex with a rounded point; thorax short; propodeum short, 

 the basal carina of propodeum strong, weak, or absent; apical carma 

 of propodeum weak, obscured by wrinkling, or sometimes moderately 

 strong, without sublateral crests; sometimes propodeum with some 

 longitudinal carinae or strong wrinkles (fig. 326,b) ; propodeal spiracle 



