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Forewing about 8.0 mm. long; as seen from above, head about 0.7 

 as long as wide; frons with small, rather close punctures, sparser 

 medially and dorsally; top of head with sparse, fine punctures, which 

 are separated by about the length of their setae; temple strongly 

 convex, rather short; occipital carina sharp, not produced; propleurum 

 with moderately sparse indistinct punctures, or not distinctly punc- 

 tate; pronotum coarsely wrinkled, somewhat rugosopunctate around 

 the edges, without a projecting tooth on its front edge; mesoscutum 

 rather strongly and angularly bulging forward, above with heavy 

 transverse ridges; hind coxa above weakly and moderately coarsely 

 rugosopunctate; tarsal claws each with two teeth, a median low but 

 rather strong tooth and a subbasal low weak tooth; ovipositor sheath 

 about 1.35 as long as the forewing. 



Black. Clypeus and scape brown to blackish, usually palest in 

 males; fore and middle legs beyond coxae blackish to fulvous; hind 

 legs beyond coxa black to dark brown, its tarsus stramineous to light 

 brown; wings hyaline to somewhat infuscate, without spots; abdomen 

 red, the base of the first tergite and the apical tergites of the male 

 (beginning usually with the fifth) black. 



Specimens. — Many males and females from Alberta (Banff) ; 

 Arizona (Cochise County, Flagstaff, Santa Catalina Mountains, 

 and Williams) ; California (Carrville at 2,400 to 2,500 feet, Colfax, 

 Fallen Leaf Lake, Fresno County at 7,000 feet, Huntington Lake, 

 Inyo County, Mammoth Lake, McCloud, Mineralking, Mount Lassen, 

 Paonia, Phillips Station, Placerville, Pyramid Ranger Station, Se- 

 quoia National Park at 6,000-7,000 feet, Shasta Springs, Summerdale, 

 Tejon Pass, and Truckee); Colorado (Florissant and North Chey- 

 enne Canyon) ; Idaho (Priest River Lake, Salmon, and Wallace) ; 

 Maine (Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Medomak, and Mount Desert) ; 

 JNIanitoba (Husavick) ; Maryland (Takoma Park) ; Massachusetts 

 (Amherst) ; Michigan (Cheboygan County, Point Abaye, and White- 

 fish Point) ; Minnesota (Itasca, Itasca Park, and Lake Itasca) ; 

 Montana (Glacier National Park and Helena); New Hampshire 

 (Jaffrey and Waterville); New Mexico (Beulah at 8,000 feet, Cox 

 Canyon in the Sacramento Mountains at 9,300 feet, and Santa Fe 

 County) ; New York (Clinton County, Danby, and Ithaca) ; North 

 Carolina (Bent Creek at Asheville) ; Ontario (Sudbury) ; Oregon 

 (Crater Lake, Diamond Lake in Douglas County at 5,182 feet, near 

 Halfway, and WaUowa Mountains at 6,000 feet); Pennsylvania 

 (Charter Oak, Drumgold, and Endeavor) ; Quebec (Fort Coulonge 

 and Laniel) ; Vermont (Jacksonville) ; Washington (Easton) ; and 

 Wyoming (Grand Teton National Park). Dates of collections are 

 distributed from June 1 to August 25, with three records in September 

 as follows: September 12 and 13 at Banff, Alberta, and September 18 

 at Colfax, Calif. Reared specimens include: cf, from Chrysobothris 



