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ish fulvous, the hind coxae and to a lesser extent the middle and front 

 coxae more or less blackish brown basally and apically; front and 

 middle legs yellowish fulvous; hind trochanters and tarsus yellow; 

 hind femur fulvous, the extreme base brown and sometimes with a 

 faint brownish subapical area; hind tibia yellowish fulvous; abdomen 

 colored as in male but the colors a little less contrasted; subgenital 

 plate fulvous, its apex blackish, and with a thin blackish line extending 

 forward from the blackish tip just above the ventral edge; wings 

 colored as in male. 



Specimens (39 cf, 579): From Colorado; Idaho (Priest Lake); 

 Maine (Bangor, Bar Harbor, Baxter State Park, Brewer, Brooksville, 

 Lincoln Co., Machias, "Round Pond Mt.," and Waldoboro); Mani- 

 toba (Berens River); Massachusetts; Michigan (Cheboygan Co., 

 Gogebic Co., Isle Royale, Munising, Doyle Township in Schoolcraft 

 Co., and Whitefish Point in Chippewa Co.); Minnesota (Bovey and 

 Lake Itasca); New Brunswick (Bathurst and Nictau); New Hamp- 

 shire (Franconia and Randolph) ; New York (Bemus Point, Big Indian 

 Valley in the Catskill Mts., Bluff Island near Clayton, Ithaca, and 

 New Russia) ; Northwest Territories (Fort Simpson) ; Ontario (Footes 

 Bay, Frater, Hastings Co., Petawawa Reservation, Sudbury, and 

 Waubamik); Pennsylvania (Spring Brook); Prince Edward Island 

 (Brackley Beach and Dalvay House, both in Canadian National 

 Park); Quebec (Lac Tremblant Nord, Montreal, "N. Tumiskaming," 

 and Queens Park in Aylmer) ; Vermont (Laurel Lake near Jackson- 

 ville and Rutland); West Virginia ("Cranberry Gls."); and Wisconsin 

 (Sawyer Co.). 



Dates of collections are from July 11 to Aug. 18, except for the 

 following: April 14 at Willis, Tex.; June 21 at Nictau, N. B.; June 22 

 at Lake Itasca, Minn.; August 25 at Frater, Out., and in Baxter State 

 Park, Maine; September 15 at Bar Harbor, Maine; and September 20 

 at Footes Bay, Ont. 



A female was reared from Anoplodera nigrella at N. Tumiskaming, 

 Que., by F. C. Craighead. 



This subspecies is in northern coniferous woods, in the eastern 

 half of the continent. Adults occur mostly in mid-summer. 



3b. Spilopteron vicinum melanderi, new subspecies 



Head about 0.94 as wide across midlength of temples as across 

 eyes. Coloration as in S. vicinum vicinum except that the blackish 

 areas are restricted in area and largely replaced by fulvoferruginous 

 or reddish brown. The mesopleurum is usually less than 20 percent 

 black, the rest being reddish brown or paler, and the metapleurum 

 has its upper front 20 percent usually fulvoferruginous, the rest being 

 blackish brown. 



