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the male usually with the upper half of the face yellow and the lower 

 half and clypeus black, the yellow area with a deep median ventral 

 notch that almost divides it into two large lateral quadrate spots. In 

 the female the face and clypeus are usually entirely yellow with a 

 more or less distinct median vertical brown line on face, a brown line 

 between clypeal foveae, and apical margin of clypeus brown. Some- 

 times these brown lines are more or less enlarged and fused to make 

 most of the face and clypeus blackish. Often in the female and some- 

 times in the male the face and clypeus are entirely pale yellow. Yellow 

 spot at top of each eye elongate, the two spots weakly convergent 

 posteriorly near the hind ocelli, and usually a little separated from 

 margin of eye; mandible of male usually brown, of female usually 

 yellow; palpi yellowish to brown; hind corner of pronotum sometimes 

 yellow, especially in males from eastern North America ; tegula yellow, 

 its apical half fulvous to dark brown; subtegular ridge rarely yellow; 

 color of legs varying from pale stramineous (in some males from 

 eastern North America), to mostly blackish with conspicuous yellow 

 markings, most commonly as follows: coxae black, the front and 

 middle coxae partly yellow apically; front and middle trochanters 

 yellow, brownish basally above ; hind trochanters mostly brown ; front 

 and middle femora fulvous, the apical 0.15 yellow, the middle femur 

 a little darkened subapically; hind femur blackish brown, paling to 

 fulvous basally, its apical 0.15 yellow; front and middle tibiae fulvous, 

 the basal 0.2 pale yellow; hind tibia brown, its basal 0.2 }^ellow; tarsi 

 stramineous, tinged with light brown apically. 



Specimens (38 cf, 199): From Alberta (Banff, Edmonton, Leth- 

 bridge, and Slave Lake) ; Arizona (near Alpine and Oak Creek Can- 

 yon) ; British Columbia (Robson and Vernon) ; California (Auburn, 

 Camino, Dardanelle, Fallen Leaf Lake in Eldorado Co., Leevining, 

 Salinas, San Francisco, Siskiyou Co., and near Sonora Pass at 8,500 

 ft.) ; Colorado (Florissant and Lyons) ; Idaho (Lewiston) ; Michigan 

 (Lapeer Co.); Minnesota (Itasca State Park); Nevada; New Bruns- 

 wick (Bartholomew River) ; New Hampshire {Carex meadow on 

 Mount Washington at 5,960 ft.); New York (Cranberry Lake and 

 Ithaca) ; Northwest Territories (Hay River) ; Oregon (Aspen Lake 

 and Klamath Falls) ; Utah (Emory) ; Washington (Bayview Ridge in 

 Skagit Co.); and Yukon (Dawson). 



Adults have been collected from late spring to early September. 

 Early and late seasonal records of note are: April 26 at Lewiston, 

 Idaho; May 17 at Vernon, B. C; May 23 at Ithaca, N. Y.; May 26 

 near Alpine, Ariz.; May 30 in Lapeer Co., Mich.; September 6 at 

 Robson, B. C; September 7 at Bayview Ridge, Skagit Co., Wash.; 

 September 8 at San Francisco, Calif.; and "Sept." in Itasca State 

 Park, Minn. 



