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Figures 83, 84. — Localities: 83 (left), Colpotrochia (Colpotrochia) fultoni; 84 (right), 



C. (C.) trifasciata. 



tibia tinged with brown; first tergite often with a subapical brown 

 spot; second tergite with an antemedial brown area; wings tinged with 

 yellowish brown; veins brown; stigma yellowish brown. 



Type: 9, Wallace, N. C., June 17, 1949, H. Townes (Washington, 

 USNM 63633). 



Paratypes: 9, McClellanville, S. C, May 16, 1944, H. and M. 

 Townes (Townes). 9, Westmoreland State Park, Westmoreland Co., 

 Va., July 8, 1951, K. V. Krombein (Townes). 



The two specimens collected by the authors were taken flying over 

 dense, unshaded, waist high to shoulder high vines and bushes. The 

 type was collected while on a trip with Dr. B. F. Fulton, and is named 

 fultoni in recognition of his many contributions to the study of insects. 



4. Colpotrochia (Colpotrochia) trifasciata (Cresson) 



Tryphon? trifasciatus Cresson, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 3, p. 276; 

 cf. Type: c\ Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). 



Front wing 6.0 to 7.5 mm. long; areolet absent; nervellus vertical, 

 broken a little below the middle; lateral carina of propodeum moder- 

 ately strong, complete; dorsal carinae of first tergite rather sharp, 

 extending beyond the spiracle; subgenital plate scoop-shaped. 



Black. Scape except for an external fuscous stripe, pedicel below 

 and mesally, palpi, tegula, scutellum, postscutellum, usually a trans- 

 verse blotch of variable size on propodeum, front and middle legs of 

 male except for more or less of their coxae basally and sometimes for 

 fuscous areas on femora, front coxa of female below, front trochanter 

 of female except sometimes for blackish area posterodorsally, front 

 femur of female except for posterodorsal blackish blotch, front and 

 middle tibiae and tarsi of female, apex of middle coxa of female, 



