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eastern States and occurs locally in the warmer parts of the Carolinian 

 fauna. It is known also from southern Brazil. Adults seem to occur 

 throughout the growing season. 



2. Colpotrochia (Colpotrochia) crassipes (Provanchcr) 



Cleniscus crassipes Provancher, 1886, Additions et corrections au volume n de la 

 faune entomologique du Canada traitent des hym6nopteres, p. 109; 9 . 

 Type: 9, Toronto, Ont. (lost). 



Front wing 5.5 to 7.8 mm. long; areolet absent; nervellus faintly 

 postf ureal, broken a little below the middle; dorsal carinae of first 

 tergite moderately distinct, extending a little beyond the spiracle; 

 epipleurum of second tergite about 2.5 as long as wide; female sub- 

 genital plate weakly convex, very broadly triangular, with a broadly 

 obtuse median point. 



Black. Scape, pedicel, mouth parts, collar, broad upper part of 

 pronotum, usually the front and lower edges of pronotum and adjacent 

 propleurum, tegula, sublateral edge of mesoscutum, scutellum, post- 

 scutellum, area between postscutellum and hind wing, axilla of hind 

 wing, propodeum except for basal margin, front and middle legs except 

 sometimes for dorsal blackish blotches on their femora (especially in 

 females), hind coxa except for more or less of the front and back, hind 

 trochanters and tarsus, hind femur except basally and apically and in 

 males sometimes below, hind tibia except for apical 0.3, first abdominal 

 segment, apical half of second and third tergites, apical 0.3 ± of fourth 

 tergite, apical 0.25 ± of fifth tergite, and all of the following segments, 

 yellow. Flagellum }^ellowish brown, darker apically. Wings faintly 

 tinged with brown, their veins and stigma brown. 



Specimens (83 cf, 509): From Connecticut (Woodstock); Georgia 

 (Atlanta); Maine (Dryden); Maryland (Bowie, Cabin John, Glen 

 Echo, Laurel, Hummers Island, and Takoma Park) ; Michigan (George 

 Reserve in Livingston Co.); New Hampshire (Randolph); New 

 Jersey (Moorestown and Princeton); New York (Boston, Dover, 

 Hancock, Ithaca, New Rochelle, and Poughkeepsie) ; North Carolina 

 (Crabtree Meadows at 3,600 ft. in Yancey Co., Hamrick, Lake Toxa- 

 way, Mount Mitchell, Southern Pines, and Wake Co.); Ohio (Bedford 

 and Greene Co.); Pennsylvania (Lehigh Gap, Slippery Rock, Spring 

 Brook, and Stillwater) ; South Carolina (Columbia and Greenville) ; 

 Tennessee (four localities in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 

 as follows: Chimneys, Elkmont, Ramsey Cascades Trail, and state 

 road to Newfound Gap at 3,500 ft.); Virginia (Arlington, Dunn 

 Loring, Falls Church, Galax, and Skyline Drive); West Virginia 

 (Bolivar); and Wisconsin (Washington Co.). The type was from 

 Toronto, Ont. 



