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middle tarsus dark brown; hind coxa fulvous, its apex faintly infuscate; 

 first hind trochanter brownish fulvous; second hind trochanter 

 yellowish fulvous; hind femur brown, often fulvous basally; hind 

 tibia fuscous, its basal 0.15 stramiDeous; hind tarsus blackish, the 

 base of its basitarsus paler. 



The above description of female coloration applies particularly to 

 specimens from eastern North America. In some specimens from 

 western North America the legs are more uniformly colored, the coxae, 

 trochanters, and femora being fulvous with the apex of the hind 

 femur fuscous, and the pale marking at the bases of the tibiae and 

 hind tarsus lacking or obscured. This coloration is rather like that 

 of the European subspecies. 



Specimens (51 cf, 83 9): From Alberta (Brazeau Reserve on the 

 Cardinal River, Lake Agnes at 6,900 ft., McMurray, and Waterton); 

 Arizona (near Alpine) ; British Columbia (Cedarvale, Kootena3 T 

 Crossing in Kootenay National Park, Lorna, Lower Post, Mount Apex 

 near Hedley, Mount Revelstoke, Robson, Round Lake near Smithers, 

 Skeena, Trinity Valley, Vancouver, and Victoria) ; California (Yosem- 

 ite Valley); Colorado (North Cheyenne Canyon); Idaho (Smiths 

 Feny) ; Maine (Bar Harbor) ; Manitoba (Aweme and Onah) ; Mich- 

 igan (Grand Isle, Seney, and Negaunee) ; Montana (Columbia Falls 

 and Corlett) ; New Brunswick (Bathurst, Chatham, and Fredericton) ; 

 Newfoundland (St. Johns) ; New Hampshire (Mount Washington at 

 2,000 to 4,000 ft., Rye, and Tamworth) ; New York (top of Mount 

 Maclntyre in Essex Co. and top of Mount Whiteface at 4,872 ft. in 

 the Adirondacks) ; North Carolina (Mount Mitchell at 6,600 ft., 

 Pisgah Ridge, and "Silver Mt.") ; Nova Scotia (Kentville) ; Ontario 

 (Chalk River, Fort Francis, Sand Lake, and Victoria County Forest) ; 

 Quebec (Aylmer, Cascapedia River, Lac J.-Cartier at 2,600 ft. in 

 Laurentian Park, and Laniel) ; Virginia (Falls Church) ; Washington 

 ("Pialschie") ; Wisconsin (Lac de Flambeau and Nekoosa); and 

 Wyoming (Jenny Lake in the Grand Teton Mts.). 



Although there are many locality records among this material, the 

 majority of the specimens are reared so give little that is reliable 

 about the seasonal distribution. Collection dates for adults that were 

 taken in the open (not reared) are mostly from early June to mid-July. 

 Unusually early and late dates are: May 3 at Negaunee, Mich.; 

 May 23 near Alpine, Ariz.; June 4 at Victoria, B. C; June 11 at 

 McMurray, Alta. and on Mount Maclntyre in Essex Co., N. Y.; 

 July 22 at Nekoosa, Wis.; July 24 at Robson, B. C; July 30 in the 

 Laurentian Park, Que.; and August 15 at Lake Agnes, 6,900 ft., 

 Alberta. 



Rearing records are as follows: 3 from Pissodes dubius, 4 from 

 P. engelmanni, 1 from P. -fasciatus, 1 from P. rotundatus, 15 from 



