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pedicel, tegula, stripe on upper margin of pronotum, sometimes collar 

 and a pair of longitudinal dashes on center of mesoscutum, sometimes 

 lower part of propleurum, apex of scutellum, and postscutellum, white; 

 flagellum blackish brown, paler below, its base stramineous below; 

 mesosternum, mesopleurum except above, most or all of metapleurum, 

 sometimes mesoscutum except marginally, sometimes scutellum and 

 occasionally part of propodeum, fulvous, the prepectus usually mostly 

 black; hind coxa fulvous, its apex usually white; hind trochanters 

 white; hind femur fulvous with its apex broadly white to mostly white 

 with its base and much of hind side brownish fulvous; hind tibia 

 white with a broad apical and basal fuscous band, the basal band 

 sometimes more or less divided into narrow basal and subbasal bands ; 

 hind tarsus infuscate, the segments white basally, the basal segments 

 more broadly white at base; front and middle legs white, the middle 

 tibia and tarsus with a faint repetition of the fuscous marking of the 

 hind leg. 



Female: Black. Orbit in front and at top of eye, spot below 

 antennal socket (sometimes continuous with orbital mark), large spot 

 on cheek, clypeus, basal half of mandible, maxilla, labium, under 

 side of scape and pedicel, tegula, stripe on upper margin of pronotum, 

 sometimes spot on subtegular ridge and a pair of short median dashes 

 on mesoscutum, apex of scutellum, and postscutellum, white; flagellum 

 black to brown, paler beneath, especially at base; mesosternum, lower 

 part of mesopleurum, lobes of mesoscutum, metapleurum, and 

 dorsolateral areas on propodeum sometimes more or less ferruginous; 

 hind coxa, trochanters, and femur fulvous; hind tibia fuscous, its 

 median 0.3 white; first three segments of hind tarsus fuscous, white 

 basally; last two segments of hind tarsus brown, whitish at base; 

 middle leg fulvous, its trochanters and apex of femur whitish, its 

 tibia and tarsus with a weak repetition of the color pattern of hind 

 leg; front coxa and trochanters whitish; front femur pale fulvous, 

 paler in front; front tibia and tarsus pale fulvous, the apex of the 

 tarsal segments and the upper edge of tibia brownish fulvous, the stripe 

 on upper side of tibia with a subbasal interruption. 



There is one cocoon among our material. This is elongate elliptic, 

 white, moderately dense, with a little loose silk on the surface, and 

 no hole in the hind end. 



Specimens (19 cf, 419): From Arkansas (Rich Mt. Summit at 

 2,600 ft.) ; District of Columbia (Washington) ; Florida (Manatee Co. 

 and Seminole Co.) ; Georgia (Athens and Lost Mount in Cobb Co.) ; 

 Maryland (Bowie, Mayo, Plummers Island, and Takoma Park); 

 Massachusetts; Mississippi; Missouri (Van Buren) ; New Jersey 

 (Anglesea, Boonton, and Moorestown) ; New York (West Farms at 

 New York City); North Carolina (Raleigh, Southern Pines, and 



