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with fulvous; front tarsus ^stramineous, brown toward apex; middle 

 coxa fulvous, its apical 0.3 ± whitish; middle tarsus brown; hind coxa 

 fulvous; hind first trochanter fulvous, fuscous above; hind second tro- 

 chanter mostly whitish ; hind femur fulvous, infuscate basally and sub- 

 apically, its apex whitish; hind tibia fuscous, stramineous at base- 

 hind tarsus fuscous, the base of each segment narrowly light brown. 



Specimens (3 cf, 349): From Florida (Crescent City) ; Massachusetts 

 (Amherst); New Hampshire (Squam Lake and White Mts.); New 

 Jersey- (Ramsey) ; New York (Ellis Hollow in Tompkins Co., Frontenac 

 Point on Cayuga Lake, Gowanda, Ithaca, Millwood, West Farms in 

 New York City, and Yonkers) ; North Carolina (Biltmore) ; Nova Scotia 

 (Kentville and Smith's Cove) ; Ontario (Merivale, Parry Sound, Sud- 

 bury, and Waubamik); Pennsylvania; Quebec (Aylmer and La 

 Trappe); and West Virginia (Lost River State Park in Hardy Co.). 



The above specimens were all collected between June 8 and July 13, 

 except for five dates outside of this range, as follows: May 28 at Ram- 

 sey, N. J.; June 1 at Ithaca, N. Y. ; June 2 at Yonkers, N. Y.; July 15 

 at Parry Sound, Ont.; and August 2 at Ellis Hollow, Tompkins Co., 

 N. Y. 



This subspecies occurs in the East, ranging from the Transition 

 zone to the Lower Austral zone. Adults occur mostly in June and 

 the first half of July. 



4. Poemenia pacifica Ilabeck and Townes, new species 



Male: Front wing 3.8 to 4.1 mm. long; punctation of head and 

 body moderately fine (unusually coarse for the genus); hind ocellus 

 separated from eye by about 0.9 its long diameter; flagellum with 27 

 to 31 segments, its tyloids linear, beginning on about the eighth seg- 

 ment and present on this and the next three or four segments ; areolet 

 absent; first tergite 2.8 to 3.5 as long as wide; first sternite about 0.55 

 as long as its tergite. 



Black. Apical half of clypeus and most of mandible tinged with 

 ferruginous; palpi white; front half of scape and pedicel white; broad 

 hind corner of pronotum, broad lower margin of pronotum, tegula, 

 sometimes obscure mark on sub tegular ridge, and front and middle 

 legs, white, the last segment of front tarsus brown and the middle 

 tarsus pale brown basally, shading to medium brown apically; meso- 

 scutum except its front and side margin, scutellum, mesopleurum, 

 mesosternum, and metapleurum, ferruginous; hind coxa fulvous; hind 

 trochanters stramineous, infuscate above; hind femur brownish ful- 

 vous, a little paler below and faintly darker basally and subapically; 

 hind tibia dark brown, stramineous at base; hind tarsus dark brown, 

 the base of each segment stramineous. 



