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Specimens (13 d 1 , 389): From Alberta (Bilby, Frank, Wabamun, 

 and Waterton Lakes); British Columbia (Diamond Head Trail near 

 Squamish at 4,600 ft. and Mission City); California (Black Point in 

 Marin Co., Carmel, Monterey, and San Francisco); Connecticut 

 (Cheshire) ; Colorado (Phantom Valley in Rocky Mountain National 

 Park at 9,400 ft. and Rabbit Ears Pass) ; Iowa (Ames) ; Maine (Casco, 

 Mount Katahdin at 5,200 ft., and Oquossoc); Massachusetts (Hollis- 

 ton, South Hadley, Wellesley, and Wollaston) ; Michigan (Cheboygan 

 Co., Delta Co., Iron Co., Lapeer Co., Marquette Co., Midland Co., 

 Montcalm Co., Newaygo Co., Roscommon Co., and St. Clair Co.); 

 Minnesota (Plummer); New Hampshire (Mount Washington and 

 Pinkham Notch); New Jersey (Ramsey); New Mexico (Cimarron 

 Canyon) ; New York (Poughkeepsie, Quogue, and Troy) ; North Caro- 

 lina (Black Mt. and Crabtree Meadows in Yancey Co. at 3,600 ft.); 

 Ontario (Dows Swamp near Ottawa, and Ottawa) ; Oregon (Seaside) ; 

 Rhode Island (Westerly); Washington (Ashford, Elbe, and Mount 

 Rainier at 2,700 and 2,900 ft.); and Wisconsin (Green Lake Co. and 

 Madison). 



Dates of collection are distributed from late spring to mid-fall, the 

 earlier and later dates being as follows: March 24 at Carmel, Calif.; 

 May 21 and 29 at Ottawa, Ont.; May 22 at South Hadley, Mass.; 

 May 30 in Saint Clair Co., Mich., and at Hull, Que. ; June 1 at Wollas- 

 ton, Mass.; June 2 in Lapeer Co., Mich.; September 18 at Plummer, 

 Minn.; September 22 at Wellesley, Mass.; and October 10 and 21 at 

 Madison, Wis. In addition to American specimens, we have studied 

 two males from Ireland and two females from Germany. 



This species is transcontinental in the Transition zone and occurs 

 also in Europe. We have collected it usually by sweeping partly sunlit 

 low herbage under deciduous trees. 



2. Schizopyga pulchra Walley 



Figure 323,c 



Schizopyga pulchra Walley, 1936, Canadian Ent., vol. 68, p. 20; 9 . Type: 9 , 

 Moosonee, Ont. (Ottawa). 



Front wing of male 4.0 to 5.8 mm. long, of female 4.0 to 5.0 mm. 

 long; head about 1.42 as wide as long; propodeum mat, its petiolar 

 area subpolished; second tergite mat, without distinct rugulae. 



Black. Flagellum of male brown below; antenna of female brown, 

 paler below, basally stramineous below ; maxilla and labium whitish to 

 light brown ; tegula white to fulvous ; front coxa and front and middle 

 trochanters light fulvous to whitish; femora, hind trochanters, and 

 middle and hind coxae fulvous, the apex of hind femur broadly black- 

 ish; tibiae fulvous, the middle and hind tibiae blackish apically; front 



