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Coleocentrus minor Cushman, 1920, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 57, p. 507; 9. 



Type: 9, Pisgah Ridge, N. C. (Washington). 

 Coleocentrus niger Cushman, 1920, Proc. U. S. Mat. Mus., vol. 57, p. 508; 9. 



Type: 9, Whitefish Point, Mich. (Washington). 



Front wing 8.5 to 11 mm. long in male, 7.5 to 13 mm. long in female; 

 face with sparse hairs laterally, elsewhere with very sparse hairs or 

 none; clypeus about 2.5 as wide as long, subbasally with about 12 

 hairs in an irregular transverse row; prepectal carina completely 

 lacking; median longitudinal carinae of propodeum very weak; 

 areolet absent; second abdominal tergite of male about 1.8 as long as 

 wide; hairs on second abdominal tergite of female very sparse, absent 

 medially, elsewhere regularly spaced ; hairs on lateral sternite of third 

 abdominal segment of female irregularly spaced, not dense; male 

 clasper as in figure 378; ovipositor sheath about 1.02 as long as front 

 wing. We have seen one male in which the areolet is present (small, 

 with a long petiole, the second intercubitus weak). 



Male: Black. Face, palpi, scape and pedicel except above, tegula, 

 front coxa and trochanters, middle coxa and trochanters except above, 

 hind trochanters below, apex of front and middle femora, and much of 

 lower edge of clasper, white; hind femur infuscate apically, especially 

 above; hind tibia and tarsus fuscous, the tibia more or less fulvous 

 basally; legs fulvous except as described otherwise; wings hyaline or 

 subhyaline. 



Female: Black. Face laterally, clypeus, and under side of scape, 

 often suffused with dirty white; palpi light brown; tegula white to pale 

 brown ; legs fulvous, the apex of hind femur and hind tibia and tarsus 

 brown, the tibia paler basally; wings hyaline or faintly tinged with 

 brown. 



Specimens (19 <?, 339): From Maine (Brooksville) ; New Brunswick 

 ("Middle Brook," "Narrows Brook," Nictau, and Riley Brook); 

 New Hampshire (Mount Madison, Mount Monadnock, Mount 

 Washington, and Pickham Notch) ; New York (Heart Lake in Essex 

 Co., Lake Tear at 4,300 to 4,600 ft. in Essex Co., Maplecrest in the 

 Catskill Mts., McLean Reserve in Tompkins Co., and top of Mount 

 Whiteface); Nova Scotia (Cape Breton Highlands National Park 

 and Halifax) ; Ontario (Macdiarmid on Lake Nipigon, Moose Factory, 

 and Westree) ; Quebec (Brome, Cascapedia River, Gracefield, Harring- 

 ton Lake in Gatineau Park, Nominingue, and Wakefield) ; Tennessee 

 (Great Smoky Mountains National Park); and Vermont (Lake 

 Willoughby at 3,200 ft. and Mount Equinox). 



Dates of collection are from late spring to early August, with 

 most of the dates in June. Particularly early and late dates of 

 capture are: May 26 and 29 in McLean Reserve, Tompkins Co., 

 N. Y.; June 5 on Mount Equinox, Vt. and at Nominingue, Que.; 

 August 2 at Westree, Ont.; August 5 in Cape Breton Highlands 



