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centrally indented, black, edged with yellow. Otherwise like the male. 



Expanse: Male 15 to 17 mm., female 15 to 18 mm. 



Distribution. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Gulf 

 Coast States. 



Type. — Male. Collected in Colorado by Morrison. In the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Remarks. — Records from specimens in the United States National 

 Museum: North Cheyenne Canyon, Colo., reared from cynipid galls 

 on scrub oak, 2 females, June 15, 1915 (A. B. Champlain) ; Manitou, 

 Colo., from galls on white scrub oak, June 15, 1915, 2 males, 2 females 

 (B. J. Narney) ; Little Tesugne Canyon, Santa Fe, N. Mex., 9,200 feet, 

 sweeping on Quercus gambcli, July 27, 1932, 1 female (dwarfed specimen, 

 11 mm.) (A. B. Klots) ; 4 males, Texas, without date and locality; 1 male 

 labeled reared from gall on Quercus nigra, Mobile, Ala., April (J. Ball) ; 

 long series of both sexes from galls on scrub oak in Alabama and Mis- 

 sissippi, May-June, 1922-1932 (Engelhardt) ; Baton Rouge, La., both 

 sexes, from oak galls, July 1932 (C. O. Hopkins) ; Crowley, La., May 27, 

 1922 ( W. W. Porter) ; Cedar Bluff, Miss., from gall on black oak ; Pensa- 

 cola, Fla., May 1928, from woody round galls on small-leaved scrub oak 

 (Engelhardt). 



SYNANTHEDON DECIPIENS race RUBRISTIGMA (Kellicott) 



Aegeria rubristigtna Kellicott, Can. Ent., vol. 24, p. 211, 1892; Insect Life, vol. 5, 



p. 84, 1892. 

 Sesia riibristigma Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 141, 1896; 



vol. 9, p. 220, 1897; Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 301, 1901. 

 Synanthedon rubristigma McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 



and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8735, 1939. 



Male. — Labial palpus with basal and second joints black, except the 

 tip of the latter, which is yellow like the third joint. Forewing trans- 

 parent with costa and outer margin very narrow and orange streaks 

 between the veins much shortened or absent. 



Female. — Labial palpus yellow, black at the base. Forewing with costa 

 and outer margin broader and with the orange streaks more pronounced 

 than in the males. 



Expanse : Male 13-18 mm., female 13-18 mm. 



Distribution. — Eastern and Midwestern States, Canada (Ontario), 

 Appalachian system, in general following the red and black oak belts. 



Type. — In the American Museum of Natural History. Type specimens 

 reared from cynipid galls on Quercus palustris, Central College and Sugar 

 Grove, Ohio. 



Remarks. — Records for specimens in the United States National 

 Museum: Three males, 2 females, \^ong Island, N. Y., both from galls 

 of Andricus comigerus (Osten Sacken) on Quercus palustris, June-July 

 (Engelhardt) ; 1 male, Falls Church, Va., from oak gall, June 1, 1914 



