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front and middle coxae, and all trochanters, pale yellow or whitish; 

 front and middle femora and tibiae light fulvous; front and middle 

 tarsi light brownish fulvous to light brown, darker apically; hind coxa 

 light brownish fulvous, pale yellow apically, a little darker basally; 

 hind femur fulvous, its apical margin paler; hind tibia brownish ful- 

 vous, brown apically and with a narrow, faint brownish band at its 

 basal 0.35; hind tarsus brown; abdomen dark brown or blackish 

 brown, the basal 0.5 ± of third to fifth tergites and raised apical margin 

 of second to sixth tergites, pale brown. 



Type: 9, McMinnville, Oreg., Aug. 19, 1947, K. M. Fender (Wash- 

 ington, USNM 63701). 



Paratypes (26 cf, 129): From Arizona (Oak Creek Canyon and 

 Parker Creek in the Sierra Ancha) ; British Columbia (Robson) ; Cali- 

 fornia (Crescent City) ; Maine (Casco) ; Minnesota (Itasca State Park) ; 

 New York (Farmingdale, Lake Mohonk in Ulster Co., Millwood, and 

 Poughkeepsie) ; North Carolina (Bald Knob in the Mitchell Range) ; 

 Oregon ("Boyer," Cannon Beach, and McMinnville) ; Quebec (Stone- 

 ham); and Washington (Ashford, Elbe, Christine Falls on Mount 

 Rainier, Lake Crescent at Fairholm, and Quilcene). 



Most collection dates are in July and August. Those outside of 

 these two months are: May 20 and 21 in Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz.; 

 June 21 at Bald Knob in the Mitchell Range, N. C, at Millwood, 

 N. Y., and at Stoneham, Que.; June 26 at Lake Crescent near Fair- 

 holm, Wash.; September 2 and 15 at McMinnville, Oreg.; and "Sept." 

 in Itasca State Park, Minn. 



This species is transcontinental in the Canadian and Transition 

 zones, occurring in moist woods with heavy vegetation. Adults occur 

 mostly in July and August. 



3. Eruga rufa, new species 



Figure 323,j 



Front wing 2.8 to 3.7 mm. long; propodeum rather strongly convex, 

 weakly mat, with a little weak rugulosity medially and laterally; hind 

 tarsus short, its third segment about 2.0 as long as deep; first tergite 

 1.6 as long as wide in male, about 1.4 as long as wide in female. 



Fulvous. Head black, the antennal socket rimmed with fulvous; 

 scape and flagellum stramineous or fulvous, light brown above; 

 flagellum dark brown, paler basally; mouth parts whitish; tegula, 

 subtegular ridge, hind corner of pronotum, broad anterolateral margin 

 of mesoscutum, front and middle coxae, and all trochanters, yellowish 

 stramineous; hind tarsus and apical 0.3 of hind tibia fulvous brown; 

 raised apical margin of second through fifth tergites and all of sixth 

 and seventh tergites, brown. 



The type specimen is accompanied by the cocoon from which it 



