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14, AULACOSTETHUS STRANGALIAE (Rohwer). new combination 



Figures 15, h; 16, h 



Pristaulacus strangaliae Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 157, 1917. 



Type: 9 , Charter Oak, Pa. (Washington). 

 Pristaulacus {Oleisoprister) taughanic Bradley, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 21, 



p. 173, 1926. Type: 9 , Taughannock State Park, near Ithaca, N. Y .(Ithaca). 



(New synonymy.) 

 Pristaulacus {Ohisoprister) glabrescens Bradley, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 21, 



p. 174, 1926. Type: 9 , Albany, N. Y, (Ithaca). (New synonymy.) 



Tarsal claws each with three teeth; upper side of hind coxa smooth; 

 pronotum without a forward-projecting tooth; forewing hyaline, with an 

 apical and suhstigmal fuscous spot (fig. 15, h). 



Forewing about 10 mm. long; as seen from above, head about 0.80 

 as long as wide; frons \\dth small punctures evenly spaced at about 

 1.5 their diameter apart; top of head with fine, moderately distant 

 punctures; temple full, rather strongly convex (fig, 16, h); occipital 

 carina thin and sharp, not produced; proplem^um without distinct 

 punctures; pronotum coarsely and rather strongly wrinkled, its ante- 

 rior edge without a projecting tooth; hind coxa above smooth and 

 polished in the female, smooth or often weakly rugulose in the male; 

 tarsal claws each with three teeth; ovipositor sheath about 1.4 as long 

 as the forewing. 



Black. Clypeus, mandible subapically, and underside of scape light 

 reddish brown; apical three segments of maxillary palpus brown; fore 

 and middle legs beyond first trochanters and hind legs beyond femur 

 fulvous; hind second trochanter and base and apex of hind femur 

 fulvous; forewing of female with blackish spots as in figure 15, h, the 

 spots smaller and fainter in the male; abdomen ferruginous but with 

 a basal ventral stripe on the first sternite, a basal dorsal stripe on the 

 first tergite, the second tergite apically or subapically, and the third 

 and following tergites black. In the male the front coxa and the 

 front and middle second trochanters are often largely fulvous. 



Specimens. — 9 cf, 48 9, from Connecticut (Lyme); District of 

 Columbia (Washington); Maine (Bangor, Machias, and Orono); 

 Manitoba (Victoria Beach); Maryland (Bowie, Plummers Island, 

 and Takoma Park) ; Massachusetts (Springfield) ; Michigan (Doug- 

 las Lake and Marquette) ; Minnesota (Itasca Park) ; New Bruns- 

 wick (Tabusintac) ; New Hampshire (Mount Washington and 

 Randolph); New Jersey (Manumuskin) ; New York (Albany, 

 Hartsdale, top of Mount Whiteface, Six Mile Creek at Ithaca, 

 Taughanic Falls, and Tuxedo); Nova Scotia (Kings County and 

 Shediac) ; Ohio (Cleveland) ; Ontario (Ottawa and Ridgeway) ; 

 Pennsylvania (Charter Oak, Clarks Valley, Delaware Water Gap, 

 Harrisburg, Hummelstown, Inglenook, Lehigh Gap, Rockville, and 

 Roxborough); Prince Edward Island (Dalvay House); Quebec 



