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5. Coleocentrus rufocoxatus Pratt 



Figure 375 



Coleocentrus rufocoxatus Pratt, 1936, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 31, p. 11; 

 9. Type: ?, Laurel Lake, 1700 ft., near Jacksonville, Vt. (Washington). 



Front wing of male 12 mm. long, of female 12 to 13.5 mm. long; 

 face with moderately dense hairs; clypeus about 2.3 as wide as long, 

 subbasally with an irregular transverse row of about 18 hairs; prepectal 

 carina present ventrally; median longitudinal carinae of propodeum 

 strong; areolet present; second tergite of male 2.1 as long as wide; 

 hairs on second abdominal tergite of female sparse, rather regularly 

 spaced; hairs on lateral sternite of third abdominal segment of female 

 sparse and irregularly spaced, to dense and regularly spaced; male 

 clasper as in figure 375; ovipositor sheath about 0.95 as long as front 

 wing. 



Male: Black. Face, tinge on cheek, clypeus, palpi, under side of 

 scape aDd pedicel, tegula, front and middle coxae, and front and middle 

 trochanters, ivory, the front and middle coxae tinged with pale fulvous; 

 flagellum blackish brown, brown beneath; front and middle legs 

 beyond trochanters ivo^-yellow, their femora tinged with fulvous 

 except in front; hind coxa fulvous, ivory beneath; hind trochanters 

 ivory; hind femur fulvous; hind tibia brownish fulvous; hind tarsus 

 pale yellow, the basal 0.4 of its basal segment suffused with fulvous; 

 apical 0.25 ± of first two tergites and sides of second and third tergites 

 partly fulvous; wings hyaline. 



Female: Black. Clypeus, palpi, front of scape, tegula, and legs 

 fulvous, the hind tibia brownish above except towards base; wings 

 hyaline. 



Specimens: 9, Middle Brook, N. B., July 17, 1936 (MacDonald). 

 9, Halfway House, Mount Washington, N. H., July 6, 1914, C. W. 

 Johnson (Washington) . 9, Rockaway, Long Island, N. Y. (New York) . 

 9, Norman Wells, N. W. T., July 8, 1949, W. R. M. Mason, (Ottawa). 

 9, Kentville, N. S., June 18, 1914 (Cambridge). 9, Macdiarmid, Ont., 

 June 26, 1921, R. K. B. (Ottawa). 9, Thunder Bay Beach, Ont., June 

 11, 1939, H. S. Parish (Townes). cT, North Mt., Pa., "6.9" (Wash- 

 ington). 9, Hunter River, P. E. I., July 5, 1947, R. H. Wigmore 

 (Ottawa). 9, Godbout, Que., Aug. 17, 1918, E. M. Walker (Washing- 

 ton). 39, Laurel Lake, near Jacksonville, Vt., June 27, 1935, July 1, 

 1936, and July 23, 1935, H. D. Pratt (Washington, Townes, and 

 (Ottawa) . 



This species occurs in the Transition and Canadian zones of the 

 East, and is known also from Northwest Territories. 



