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4a. Exochus pictus pictus Holmgren 



Exochus pictus Holmgren, 1856, Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl., ser. 4, vol. 1, 

 p. 312; c?, 9- Types: d\ ?, northern Sweden (? Stockholm). 



Male: Black. Face, frontal orbit (to top of eye and expanded there), 

 clypeus, cheek, lower 0.7 ± of hind orbit, mouth parts, under side of 

 scape, large cuneate mark on upper margin of pronotum which reaches 

 from hind corner to vicinity of notaulus, rarely a vertical mark on 

 prepectus, tegula, often part of scutellum and most of postscutellum, 

 and most or much of legs, lemon yellow; front and middle coxae basally 

 or mostly black; hind coxa black; front trochanter more or less fulvous; 

 middle and hind trochanters blackish to fulvous; femora basally 

 fulvous or fulvous with only the apical part yellow, the hind femur 

 sometimes brownish basally; tibiae, especially the hind tibia, often 

 fulvous; hind tibia often brownish basally and apically; hind tarsus 

 brown. Often there are median fuscous spots on the face, on the 

 clypeal suture, and on the clypeus, and sometimes also a fuscous 

 spot above the clypeal fovea. 



Female: Black. Face except above and usually median part of 

 clypeus dark brown; face above, frontal orbit (to top of eye and 

 expanded there), clypeus laterally, cheek, much of hind orbit, mouth 

 parts except palpi, large cuneate mark on upper margin of pronotum 

 (reaching from hind corner to vicinity of notaulus) , tegula, sometimes 

 tinge on postscutellum and on apex of scutellum, and front apical 

 part of front and middle coxae, lemon yellow; palpi brown; trochanters 

 brownish; legs beyond trochanters fulvous, the apex of femora in 

 front yellow, and tarsi, especially the hind tarsus, more or less brown- 

 ish. 



Described from seven males and five females from Ireland, Belgium, 

 and Germany. 



4b. Exochus pictus xanthopsis Ashmead, new status 



Exochus xanthopsis Ashmead, 1896, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 23, p. 201; 

 d\ Type: d", Victoria, B. C. (Washington). 



Male: Black. Frontal orbit (to top of eye and expanded there), 

 clypeus, cheek, lower 0.7 ± of hind orbit, mouth parts, under side of 

 scape and sometimes of pedicel, broad margin of pronotum (narrowed 

 anteriorly and reaching epomia) , sometimes vertical mark on prepectus 

 and rarely adjacent splotch on mesopleurum, tegula, subtegular ridge, 

 usually postscutellum and apical part of scutellum, and much of legs, 

 lemon yellow; front and middle coxae often fulvous basally; hind coxa 

 fulvous to black, most often black in specimens from eastern North 

 America, often fulvous with the posterobasal part fuscous; front and 



