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Black. Small spot at top of eye yellow or obscure brownish; upper 

 margin of face tinged with brown; tegula dark brown; coxae black, 

 the hind coxa sometimes with a fulvous stripe in front; first trochanters 

 blackish, sometimes tinged with fulvous; second trochanters mostly 

 fulvous; femora and tibiae uniformly fulvous; tarsi brownish, the 

 front tarsus paler. 



Type: 9, Churchill, Man., June 23, 1937, W. J. Brown (Ottawa). 



Paratypes: 9, Mile 149, Richardson Highway, Alaska, July 4, 1951, 

 W. R. M. Mason (Ottawa), c\ Churchill, Man., July 3, 1937, W. J. 

 Brown (Ottawa). 



This appears to be an arctic species. 



13. Exochus washingtoncnsis (Davis) 



Figure 192,d 



Mima washingtonensis Davis, 1897, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, p. 219; 9 . 

 Lectotype: 9, Mount Washington, N. H. (Philadelphia). 



Front wing 3.4 to 5.0 mm. long; body rather stout and depressed; 

 face unusually narrow and protuberant above, especially in female, its 

 punctures moderately coarse, their interspaces about 0.7 their diam- 

 eter; temple in profile about 0.8 as long as eye in male, about 0.85 as 

 long as eye in female; notaulus a subcircular pit from which a short 

 impression leads backward (the impression strong in male, subobsolete 

 in female) ; front spur of middle tibia about 0.48 as long as hind spur; 

 front spur of hind tibia about 0.68 as long as depth of its tibia; hind 

 femur about 2.3 as long as deep in male, 1.6 to 2.1 as long as deep in 

 female; second lateral area of propodeum with hairs along its lateral 

 margin and usually also apicolaterally. 



Male: The males vary considerably in the extent of pale markings, 

 and this variation has a cline from the Carolinian to the Transition 



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Figures 116, 117.— Localities: 116 (left), Exochus litus; 117 (right), E. washingtonesis. 



