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Type: 9, Mount Washington, N. H., A. T. Slosson (Washington, 

 USNM 63600). 



Paratypes: 9, Midland Co., Mich., Sept, 2, 1944, R. R. Dreisbach 

 (Dreisbach). 9, Houston Co., Minn., June 14, 1910 (St. Paul). 9, 

 Pinkham Notch, N. H., Aug. 23, 1951, H., M., and D. Townes 

 (Townes). 9, Mount Washington, N. H., A. T. Slosson (Philadel- 

 phia). 9, Mount Mitchell, N. C, Aug. 24, 1950, H., M., and D. 

 Townes (Townes). 9, Montigny, Que., June 9, 1941, O. Peck (Ottawa). 

 9, Quebec Province, June 19, 1895 (Ottawa). 



This subspecies occurs in the Canadian zone of eastern North 

 America. 



7b. Tricces sapineus litus, new subspecies 



Figure 179,c 



Black. Head and its appendages sometimes (in the specimens 

 from British Columbia and Washington) colored as in the subspecies 

 sapineus, but often (in the specimens from Alaska, Alberta, and 

 Colorado) these parts yellowish brown rather than pale yellow and 

 the dorsolateral corner of face and a median area on face blackish, 

 or sometimes the face mostly blackish on its dorsal 0.2; antenna 

 brownish beneath; tegula brown, often yellow at base; apex of femora 



Figures 22-24. — Localities: 22 (left), Trieces sapineus sapineus; 23 (center), T. s. litus; 24 



(right), T. texanus. 



and basal 0.2 of tibiae yellow; coxae blackish, apically paler (especially 

 the front and middle coxae) ; trochanters light brown; front and middle 

 femora (except at apex) light brown to blackish; hind femur blackish; 

 tibiae (except on basal 0.2) and tarsi light brown. 



Type: 9, near Estes Park, Colo., June 12, 1948, H., M., G., D., and 

 J. Townes (Washington, USNM 63601). 



