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middle femora often partly fulvous; hind femur fulvous, apically 

 yellow. 



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

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

 there), clypeus laterally, cheek, part of hind orbit, mouth parts 

 except palpi, broad upper margin of pronotum (narrowed anteriorly 

 and reaching epomia), tegula, mark on subtegular ridge, sometimes 

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

 middle coxae, and tinge on front apex of front and middle femora, 

 lemon yellow; legs fulvous except where described as yellow. 



Specimens (48 cf, 279): From British Columbia (Cultus Lake, 

 Keremeos, Robson, Steelhead, Vernon, and Victoria); California 

 (Camino, Fish Camp, Humboldt Co., Inverness, San Francisco, and 

 3 miles west of San Mateo); Colorado ("Pingree Park"); Maine (Bar 

 Harbor, Eagle Lake, and Lincoln Co.); New Hampshire (Mount 

 Madison, Mount Washington at 5,000 ft., and Pinkham Notch); 

 New York (swamp near Oneonta at 1,900 ft., Onteora Mt. in Greene 

 Co., and Wilmington); North Carolina (Clingman's Dome at 6,600 

 ft., Craggy Gardens in Buncombe Co. at 5,300 ft., Hamrick, Mount 

 Mitchell at 6,400 ft., and Mount Pisgah at 5,300 ft.); Nova Scotia 

 (Baddeck) ; Ontario (Ottawa and Sudbury) ; Oregon (Cannon Beach 

 and McMinnville) ; Quebec (Gracefield, Otter Lake, St. Jean River 

 on the Gaspe, and Stoneham) ; Tennessee (Great Smoky Mts. at 6,000 

 ft. and Roan Mt. in Carter Co. at 6,300 ft.) ; and Washington (Ash- 

 ford, Glacier, Monroe, and Nooksack River on Mount Baker). 



Figure 109. — Localities for 

 Exochus pictus xanthopsis. 



Judging from the collecting dates, adults are common from mid- 

 spring to early fall, with a peak of abundance in August. Especially 

 early and late dates of capture are: March 30 at San Francisco, 

 Calif.; May 10 in Humboldt Co., Calif.; May 20 at Monroe, Wash.; 

 September 2 on Mount Pisgah, N. C; September 27 near San Mateo, 



