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eyes of the male with very fine, scattered hairs (also “os- 
tensibly bare”), the slightly enlarged facets confined to the 
upper half and not flattened on the disc, and the male ab- 
domen with a brownish suffusion, the stripes somewhat 
obscured. This is the male described by Osten Sacken 
(1876) and both sexes by Hine (1903) ; it also is the form 
reared by the author (1931) in Minnesota and later in Mon- 
tana, as well as probable by Hart (1896). The sublateral 
reddish or yellow, abdominal lines are usually irregular, 
composed of a series of trapezoidal or rhomboidal, connect- 
ing spots. In a series of pallid California specimens of both 
sexes, these lines are often obliterated, the lateral yellow 
being continuous onto the venter. In occasional Northern 
specimens irregular cinereous spurs or shadows may show 
basally on the femora while in others even the fore coxae are 
yellowish. The inner faces of the fore femora are custom- 
arily shining brown with black pile, but the outer surface 
is pale pollinose and pilose. 
Though the characters of scutellaris would suggest spe- 
cific distinction from typical lineola and even its close 
Nearctic variants, intergradation of stenocephalus and cer- 
tain other Neotropical forms prevent more than subspecific 
separation at present, as will be discussed by Fairchild in 
a future communication. 
The type of scutellaris is now not present in either the 
British or Hope Museums with other Saunders types. The 
described reddish scutellum and “tawny” legs are in agree- 
ment with this form which Stone (1938) recognized as a 
variety of lineola . The type data “Bolton, North America” 
probably refer to a person in part, not a locality according 
to Oldroyd as some other Saunders specimens carry the 
label “D. Bolton”. 
It occurs entirely across the continent in southern Canada 
and the northern states, the southern records including 
D. C., W. Va., Ohio, 111., Iowa, Kan., Colo., Utah, Nev., and 
Calif, as far south as Los Angeles. I have seen a female 
each from Utah and Montana with femora somewhat in- 
fuscated approaching the following. 
T. vittiger subsp. schwardti nov. 
The writer originally intended to retain this provisionally 
