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1933 (Ottawa). 9, reared from buprestid in Pseudotsuga taxifolia, 

 Metaline Falls, Wash., May 15, 1930, D. DeLeon (Washington). 

 9, Nekoosa, Wood Co., Wis., June 8, 1949, R. D. Shenefelt (Madison). 

 d\ Kirkman Creek, Yukon, June 13, 1928, R. E, Barrett (San Fran- 

 cisco). 9, Whitehorse, Yukon, July 25, 1948, Mason and Hughes 

 (Ottawa). 9, no data (Ottawa). 



This species is transcontinental in the Canadian and Transition 

 zones. Adults have been collected from June 13 to August 14. 



2. Neoxorides borealis (Cresson) 



Xorides borealis Cresson, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. vol. 3, p. 167; ? . Type: 9, 



Hudson Bay Territory (Philadelphia). 

 Xorides occidenlalis Cresson, 1878, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 1878, 



p. 380; ?. Type: ?, Vancouver Island, B. C. (Philadelphia). 



Front wing 8 to 15.5 mm. long; mesopleurum and metapleurum 

 weakly mat and with rather close, weak, moderate-sized punctures; 

 first tergite of male about 2.4 as long as wide, of female about 1.85 

 as long as wide; second and third tergites of male subpolished and 

 finely punctate, of female very finely transversely rugulose; hairs on 

 tergites of female sparse, usually separated by 2 to 3 times their 

 length; second through fourth sterna of male with a single large 

 sclerite; last tergite of female elongate; ovipositor sheath about 1.4 as 

 long as front wing. 



Black. Inner front margin of eye, front of scape of male, entire 

 face of male, palpi, sometimes lower part of propleurum of male, 

 broad stripe on lower edge of pronotum, upper part of mesepimeron, 

 and tegula, white, the apex of tegula often brown; face of female with 

 dim whitish blotches subdorsally ; front and middle coxae, trochanters, 

 and femora fulvous, the front coxa in front, front trochanters, second 

 trochanter of middle leg, and femora apically in front, whitish in male, 

 pale fulvous in female; front of scape of female and subtegular ridge 

 sometimes fulvous; front and middle tibiae pale whitish in front in 

 male, pale fulvous in front in female, the rest brownish, usually with 

 a short basal whitish stripe above; front and middle tarsi brownish, 

 the middle tarsus darker; hind coxa and trochanters fulvous, the 

 second trochanter more or less paler below and darker above and 

 apically; hind femur fulvous with its base and apex narrowly brownish, 

 to mostly brownish but paler subbasally ; hind tibia and tarsus fuscous, 

 the base of tibia more or less whitish or stramineous, especially in 

 females. 



This species is very close to the European N. collaris and may prove 

 to be a subspecies of it. 



Specimens (32 d\ 519): From Arizona (near Alpine and Workman 

 Creek in the Sierra Ancha); British Columbia (Aspen Grove, Cultus 



