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Coloration as described under the subspecies. 



There is a Nearctic and a European subspecies as keyed and de- 

 scribed below. 



1. Hind femur with or without a faint subapical infuscate band; coxae usually 

 partly fuscous, the rest fulvous; banding on hind tibia relatively obscure; 



range: Europe la. carbonator carbonator (Gravenhorst) 



Hind femur with a strong subapical infuscate band (fig. 323,1) ; coxae entirely 

 fulvous; banding on hind tibia relatively sharp; range: Nearctic America. 



lb. carbonator texana (Cresson) 



la. Oxyrrbexis carbonator carbonator (Gravenhorst) 



Cry plus carbonator Gravenhorst, 1807, Vergleichende Uebersicht des Linneischen 

 und einiger neuern zoologischen Systeme . . . , p. 264. Type: ?Germany 

 (lost during World War II) . 



Differs from the subspecies texana principally as noted in the key. 

 Described from a male and female from Sweden and a female from 

 Germany. 



lb. Oxyrrhexis carbonator texana (Cresson) 



Figure 323,1 



Polysphincta texana Cresson, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 149; 9- 



Type: 9, Texas (Philadelphia) . 

 Polysphincta vicina Provancher, 1873, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 5, p. 470; cf . 



Type: <?, Quebec Province (Quebec). 

 Polysphincta bicarinata Davis, 1898, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, p. 368; d". 



Name preoccupied. Type: d\ Moscow, Idaho (Philadelphia). 

 Biology: Cushman, 1913, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, p. 157. 



Black. Clypeus more or less reddish brown; mandible brown; palpi 

 white to pale brown; pedicel and flagellum dark brown; front coxa of 

 male mostly whitish, of female fulvous with the apical part whitish; 

 middle and hind coxae fulvous; trochanters of male whitish, of female 

 pale fulvous or partly whitish; front and middle femora fulvous, in 

 male their apex and the front of the front femur white, in female their 



Figure 104. — Localities for 



Oxyrrhexis carbonator 



texana. 



