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and middle tarsi of both sexes and hind tarsus of female light fulvous, 

 their last segment apically infuscate; hind tarsus of male fuscous, the 

 segments fulvous basally; first five tergites of male with a variable 

 amount of fulvous, usually almost entirely fulvous, but with the apex 

 of the first three tergites fuscous, sometimes entirely black; first five 

 tergites of female usually entirely fulvous but sometimes more or less 

 infuscate. 



Figure 94. — Localities for 

 Schizopyga pulchra. 



This species is very close to the European Schizopyga circulator 

 (Panzer), and may be a subspecies of it. 



Specimens: 3d 1 , 29, Hatzic Lake, B. C, July 20, 22, 26, and 30, 

 1953, W. R. M. Mason (Ottawa). 9, Stockton, Man., Aug. 25, 1928, 

 R. M. White (Washington). d\ Woods Hole, Mass. (Cambridge). 

 <?, Bay Co., Mich., May 26, 1951, R. R. Dreisbach (Dreisbach). 

 9, Taylors Falls, Minn., Aug. 5, 1922, H. H. Knight (Madison). cT, 

 Morgan, N. J., August 30, Weiss and West (Ottawa). 9, Long 

 Beach, Long Island, N. Y., July 9, 1927, F. M. Schott (Washington). 

 d", taken on ericaceous shrubs at edge of heath bog, McLean Bogs 

 Reserve, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1938, H. Townes (Townes). 

 9, Sea Cliff, N. Y., September 5 to 18, N. Banks (Townes). tf 1 , 

 Springlake, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July 20, 1918 (Ithaca). 2d 1 , 

 taken in short vegetation near beach, Morehead City, N. C, 

 Oct. 8, 1949, R. L. Rabb (Townes). d", Southport, N. C, Oct. 10, 

 1948, C. W. Sabrosky (Washington). 9 (type), Moosonee, Ont., 

 July 17, 1934, G. S. Walley (Ottawa). 



This species is transcontinental and occurs in all zones from the 

 Canadian to the Lower Austral, but is scarce. It seems that its 

 habitat is low plants in marshy places, and that adults are commonest 

 late in the season. 



