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Aug. 15 to 31, 1947, H. R. Foxlee (Ottawa). 9, Robson, B. C„ Oct. 7, 

 1938, H. R. Foxlee (Townes). 9, bred from A. variana, Skeena Cross- 

 ing, B. C, Aug. 3, 1939 (Ottawa). 9, Indian Meadows, La Poudre 

 River, Colo., Aug. 13, 1952, R. R. Dreisbach (Dreisbach). 



This subspecies occurs in the Rocky Mountains and westward, in 

 the Transition and Canadian zones. 



54c. Exochus clecoratus scitulus Provancher, new status 



Figures 179,o; 196,h 



Exochus scitulus Provancher, 1877, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 9, p. 15;[?]. 

 Type: ?, Quebec (Quebec). 



Front wing 4.4 to 7.0 mm. long; costula usually incomplete. 



Black. Face (except for large subcentral rectangular fuscous area 

 in male), side of frons (narrowed above), connecting spot at top of eye, 

 clypeus, cheek, lower 0.55 ± of temple, mouth parts, scape and 

 pedicel beneath, scutellum except for a median basal fulvous area, 

 and postscutellum, pale yellow; ventral, posterior, and upper hind 

 parts of pronotum, whitish; propleurum except above, tegula, sub- 

 tegular ridge, most of prepectus and connecting discal area on meso- 

 pleurum, and mesopleurum next to socket of middle coxa, whitish; 

 legs whitish, the hind coxa and trochanters and basal 0.6 or less of 

 hind femur fulvous, basal and apical 0.14 ± of hind tibia fuscous, 

 extreme apex of hind femur and a dorsal apical area on middle tibia of 

 female infuscate, and apex of last segment of hind tarsus brownish; 

 upper part of thorax more or less blackish, the rest of thorax fulvous 

 except where described as pale yellow or whitish. 



Specimens (40 cf, 349): From Connecticut (South Meriden and 

 Voluntown); Georgia (Black Rock Mt. in Rabun Co. at 3,500 ft.); 

 Illinois (White Heath); Kansas (Riley Co.); Maine (Augusta, Casco, 

 Echo Lake on Mount Desert, Orland, and Starks) ; Maryland (Bowie 

 and Takoma Park); Massachusetts (Cheshire and North Adams); 

 Michigan (Midland Co.); Minnesota (Itasca State Park); New 

 Hampshire (Mount Madison, Randolph, and Mount Washington); 

 New Jersey (Milltown and Moorestown); New York (Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Farmingdale, Ithaca, Oneonta, and Poughkeepsie) ; North 

 Carolina (Crabtree Meadows in Yancey Co. at 3,600 ft. and Mount 

 Pisgah at 4,800 to 5,300 ft.); Nova Scotia (JarTrey and Kings Co.); 

 Ontario (Lisle); Pennsylvania (Valley Forge and Spring Brook); 

 Quebec (Georgeville and Stoneham); and Rhode Island (Westerly). 



Most collection dates are from mid-June to mid-August. Those 

 outside of this range are: "May 20 to 25" on Black Mt. at 3,500 ft., 

 Rabun Co., Ga.; June 2 at Ithaca, N. Y.; June 6 at Moorestown, 

 N. J.; June 7 at Jaffrey, N. S.; June 8 at Westerly, R. I.; August 24 



