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Que., June 24, 1929, L. J. Milne (Ottawa). 9, Knowlton, Que., 

 Aug. 6, 1929, G. S. Walley (Ottawa). 9, Strawberry Daniel Pass, 

 Utah, June 19, 1948, H., M., G., and D. Townes (Townes). 9, Mount 

 Rainier at 5,300 ft., Wash., Aug. 16, 1940, H. and M. Townes (Law- 

 rence), c?, 269, Mount Rainier at 1,700, 2,900, 4,200, 4,700, 5,300, 

 and at 6,500 ft., Wash., July 7, 11, 15, 21, aiid 22, 1940, and Aug. 15, 

 16, and 17, 1940, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 



This American subspecies is transcontinental in the Canadian and 

 Hudsonian zones. 



Figures 107, 108. — Localities: 107 (left), Polysphincta tuberosa bruneti; 108 



(right), P. koebelei. 



4. Polysphincta koebelei Howard 



Figure 324,d 



Polysphincta (Zaglyptus) koebelei Howard, 1892, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 2, p. 293; ?. Type: ?, Santa Cruz Mts., Calif. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 4.8 to 5.5 mm. long, of female 5.5 to 7.0 mm. 

 long; pronotum in profile with a forward-projecting tubercle just 

 below front end of mesoscutum (this structure present also in P. 

 eboripes but absent in the other Nearctic species of the genus) ; meso- 

 scutum with a very few scattered hairs but mostly hairless; meta- 

 pleurum with sparse, rather evenly distributed hairs; submetapleural 

 carina absent; propodeum smooth, polished, without carinae or 

 rugulae, its pleural carina absent; intercubitus about 0.3 as long as 

 second abscissa of cubitus; first tergite about 1.35 as long as wide in 

 male, about 1.30 as long as wide in female; second through fourth 

 tergites polished 



Male: Black. Most of mandible and apical half of clypeus stramin- 

 eous; palpi white; apex of scape and pedicel light brown in front; 

 tegula, hind corner of pronotum, and front and middle legs, white, 

 the front and middle femora partly pale fulvous; meso thorax fulvo- 



