SMULYAN: NEW ENGLAND TENTHREDELLA. 417 
Tenthredella rufopecta rufopecta (Norton). 
Allantus rufopedus Norton, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, 18G0, p. 255, n. 
38, 9d^. 
Tenthredo rufopedus Norton, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, 1868-9, p. 237, n. 
27, 9 6". 
Tenthredo rufopedus Provancher, Nat. Can., vol. ^10, 1878, p. 199, n. 10, 9 cf. 
Tenthredo rufopedus Provancher, Faun. Ent. Can., vol. 2, 1883, p. 225, n. 
10, 9 &. 
Tenthredo rufopeda MacGillivray, Bull. Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv., 
no. 22, 1916, p. 91 (in part). 
The types are lost. Type locality, Farmington, Connecticut,? 
"and Pennsylvania." 
Female. — Head. — Black, shining; the following parts white: 
a small spot on each side of clypeus frequently, labrum (some- 
times with a brownish tinge), mandibles; color of antennae like 
that of legs and pectus but much duller, the two basal (except 
rarely on the inside) or the two basal and the basal half of the 
third segment black, a slender black line above and as a rule a 
very narrow ring at apices of segments beyond the basal segments, 
rarely again almost entirely immaculate. Head narrowed behind 
eyes; vertex-plate as a rule strongly convex and comparatively 
smooth; oblique arms of epicranial suture often practically obso- 
lete; supra-antennal ridges only moderately prominent; posterior 
half of frontal fovea often very shallow. 
Thorax. — Black, shining; the following parts white: posterior 
dorsal margin of lobes of collar, tegulae, transverse extensions of 
meso- and metascutellum, a spot or a somewhat oblique band 
except very rarely on the posterior portion of the meso-epister- 
num, and a largo spot on the mcta-epistornum; the following 
parts bright, pale ferruginous: posterior portion of meso-opimeron 
generally, meso-episternum except upper anterior portion, pectus, 
meta-epimeron as a rule in part and rarely entirely, and mota- 
episternum. Mesoscutcllum but slightly convex, often thittish, 
the greater anterior portion sloping gently as a rule toward the 
mesoscutum; meso-episternum as a rule fairly sharply pointed. 
Abdomen". — Black, shining; the following parts white: the 
sides of the basal tcrgum except very rarely, the posterior margin 
of same medially, narrowly, and rarely ilie sides of the rcnuaining 
terga irregularly. 
