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Figures 101, 102. — Localities, subspecies of Hypsicera cuneata: 101 (left), cuneata: 102 



(right), opaca. 



Shaker Heights, Ohio, Aug. 26, 1939, E. D. McDonald (Townes). 

 d\ Waubamick, Ont., 1915, H. S. Parish (Ithaca). 9, Westerly, 

 R. I., Aug. 25, 1946, M. Townes (Townes). 



This subspecies is known from Ontario and northeastern United 

 States. 



4b. Hypsicera cuneata opaca, new subspecies 



Figure 182,h 



Male: Black. Upper 0.65 of face and lower lateral part of frons 

 pale yellow; scape and pedicel brown, the scape yellow below; flagel- 

 lum blackish brown; mandible ferruginous; palpi pale stramineous; 

 legs fulvous, the hind tibia infuscate at extreme base and the basal 

 0.6 of hind coxa brown. 



Female: Black. Face near antennal sockets strongly stained 

 with fulvous; antenna medium brown basally, shading to dark brown 

 apically; mandible and palpi light brown; tegula light fulvous; 

 pronotum next to tegula narrowly stained with ferruginous; legs 

 brown, the front pair palest and hind pair darkest brown; hind coxa 

 dark brown, darker than the rest of hind leg. 



Type: 9, Grizzly Mt. at 3,000 ft., Slave Lake, Alta., Aug. 15, 1924, 

 O. Bryant (Washington, USNM 63642). 



Paratypes: 9, Lower Tonsina, Alaska, July 15, 1953, W. C. Frohne 

 (Washington). 9, Rustler Park at 8,000 to 9,000 ft,, Chiricahua 

 Mts., Ariz., July 26, 1927, J. A. Kusche (San Francisco), d", Moun- 

 tain Home, San Bernadino Co., Calif., Sept. 12, 1953, E. I. Schlinger 

 (Davis). 



This subspecies occurs in western North America, apparently in 

 the Canadian zone. 



