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12. Coccygomimus stricklandi, new species 



Figure 327 ,f 



Male: Front wing 4.0 to 6.2 mm. long; epipleura of second, third, 

 and fourth tergites respectively about 4.0, 2.8, and 1.8 as long as wide. 



Black. Labial palpus dark brown; maxillary palpus brownish to 

 whitish; tegula entirely brown or blackish; front coxa black; front 

 trochanters blackish or infuscate fulvous; front legs beyond trochanters 

 fulvous, a little darker apically; middle coxa fulvous to black; middle 

 trochanters fulvous or more or less infuscate; middle leg beyond 

 trochanters fulvous, its tibia and tarsus often weakly infuscate, the 

 tibia with a faint subbasal paler band; hind coxa fulvous to black; 

 hind trochanters and femur fulvous, the femur without apical infus- 

 cation; hind tibia and tarsus blackish, the tibia with a narrow sub- 

 median whitish band; wings subhyaline. 



Female: Front wing 3.0 to 6.8 mm. long; face sparsely punctate, 

 the punctures separated by about 2.5 their diameter; temple in pro- 

 file about 0.70 as long as eye in profile; mesoscutum with very sparse 

 hairs but these denser anteriorly, on most of its surface the hair sockets 

 separated by about three times the length of the hairs; lower half of 

 mesopleurum with small sparse punctures that are separated by about 

 three times their diameter; metapleurum with small weak punctures 

 that are separated by about 1.7 their diameter, near the hind coxa 

 with weak, fine, irregular, oblique wrinkling; front tibia with a moder- 

 ately strong median swelling; epipleura of second, third, and fourth 

 tergites respectively about 2.0, 1.7, and 1.2 as long as wide. 



Black. Labial palpus dark brown; maxillary palpus light brown; 

 tegula blackish; front coxa brown to black; front leg beyond coxa 

 fulvous, the trochanters and tarsus somewhat brownish; middle leg 

 fulvous, the tarsus somewhat brownish; hind coxa, trochanters, and 

 femur fulvous, the femur without apical infuscation; hind tibia and 

 tarsus blackish, the tibia with a rather narrow, indefinite, obscurely 

 fulvous, submedian band; wings weakly infuscate. 



Type: 9, Edmonton, Alta., July 12, 1948, E. H. Strickland (Wash- 

 ington, USNM 63715). 



Paratypes: 9, Edmonton, Alta., Aug. 9, 1938, W. R. M. Mason 

 (Townes). 29, Edmonton, Alta., July 25, 1948, E. H. Strickland 

 (Townes). 9, Clymont, Alta., Aug. 1, 1948, E. H. Strickland 

 (Townes). 9, Cheboygan Co., Mich., Aug. 10, 1932, J. O. Notting- 

 ham (Townes). 9, Delta Co., Mich., Aug. 31, 1946, R. R. Dreisbach 

 (Dreisbach). 9, Houghton Co., Mich., Aug. 27, 1947, R. R. Dreisbach 

 (Dreisbach). 9, Schoolcraft Co., Mich., Aug. 15, 1953, R. R. Dreis- 

 bach (Dreisbach). 9, Gravenhurst in the Muskoka District, Ont., 

 Aug. 12, 1918 (New York). d\ Ellis Bay, Anticosti Island, Quebec, 

 September 4 (Cambridge). 9, Dafoe, Sask., July 7, 1943, J. G. Rempel 



