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black to fulvous, usually fulvous narrowly bordered with black but 

 sometimes entirely black, especially in specimens from more northern 

 localities; scuteUum pale yellowish apically, often yellowish at basal 

 corner and sometimes narrowly yellowish laterally; postscutellum 

 usually marked with fulvous and yellow; pleural areas of propodeum 

 often more or less fulvous; front and middle legs ivory white, the 

 femora except apically and apical half of their tibiae more or less 

 fulvous, especially in females; hind coxa fulvous, more or less ivory 

 apically, especially in males, in occasional males entirely ivory; hind 

 trochanters ivory to fulvous; hind femur fulvous, its apex broadly 

 white, especially above; hind tibia white, its basal 0.17 ± and apical 

 0.28 ± fuscous; hind tarsus white, its last segment fuscous except 

 basally. 



Type: 9, Takoma Park, Md., July 12, 1943, H. and M. Townes 

 (Washington, USNM 63670). 



Paratypes (60 cf, 1169): From Colorado (Creede at 8,800 ft.); 

 Connecticut (Lebanon) ; District of Columbia (Georgetown) ; Kansas 

 (Lawrence); Maine (Camp Kennedy at 3,000 ft. on Mount Katahdin 

 and Casco) ; Manitoba (Red Deer River) ; Maryland (Takoma Park) ; 

 Michigan (George Reserve in Livingston Co., Marquette Co., and 

 Oakland Co.); New Hampshire (Randolph and White Mts.); New 

 Jersey (Moorestown) ; New York (Farmingdale, Ithaca, Oneonta, 

 and Poughkeepsie) ; North Carolina (Mount Pisgah at 4,800 to 5,300 

 ft., Marshall, Mount Mitchell at 5,000 to 6,711 ft., "Smith's Cove," 

 and Wake Co.) ; Nova Scotia (White Point Beach in Queens Co.) ; 

 Ohio (Columbus) ; Ontario (Vineland Station and Waubamick) ; 

 Pennsylvania (Spring Brook and Youngwood) ; Rhode Island (West- 

 erly); and Virginia (Charlottesville, Falls Church, Great Falls, and 

 between Scotts Run and Bolts Hill). 



Most dates of collection are from June 15 to the end of August. 

 Those outside of this range are: May 23 at Lawrence, Kans.; May 28 

 and June 1 at Ithaca, N. Y.; June 11 at Takoma Park, Md.; June 14 

 at Waubamick, Ont.; September 1, 6, 10, and 11 at Takoma Park, 

 Md.; and November 2 at Charlottesville, Va. 



There are ten reared specimens: 2d 1 , 69, from Acleris oxycoccana, 

 White Point Beach, Queens Co., N. S., Aug. 13, 16, 18, 20, and 22, 

 1935, J. McDunnough; and 29, from Episimus argutanus, Vineland 

 Station, Ont., Aug. 15 and 22, 1939, W. L. Putnam. 



We have collected the species many times by sweeping in the under- 

 growth of deciduous woods. 



This species is in the Alleghenian and Carolinian faunas. Adults 

 occur from late spring to early fall, but are commonest in July and 

 August. 



