SMULYAN: NEW ENGLAND TENTHREDELLA. 419 
following records from Canada: Ottawa, Ontario (June and July, 
Harrington); St. John, and Nerepis, New Brunswick (June to 
August inclusive, Rohwer); Nova Scotia (W. F. Kirby); and 
Quebec (?) (Provancher) . 
This subspecies is apparently widely distributed. 
Tenthredella rufopecta mellicoxa (Provancher). 
Tenthredo mellicoxa Provancher, Nat. Can., vol. 10, 1S78, p. 198, n. 9, 9 cT. 
Tenthredo mellicoxa Provancher, Faun. Ent. Can., vol. 2, 1883, p. 224, n. 9, 
9 cf . 
Tenthredo rufopecta MacGillivray, Bull. Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv., no. 
22, 1916, p. 91 (in part). 
The types are in the Provancher Collection, Museum of Pubhc 
Instruction, Quebec, Province of Quebec, Canada. 
Type locality, ? Province of Quebec, Canada. 
Female. — Differs from female rufopecta rufopecta (Norton) as 
follows: antennae black; a minute elongate white spot at the 
summit of the inner orbit, a small white spot on lower portion of 
cheek close to eye, and clypeus entirely white; lower margin of 
lateral face of pronotum as a rule white, a broad obtuse-angled 
white band (obscured somewhat by the ferruginous usually) on 
the whole length of the meso-episternum (angulated anteriorly 
and extending there somewhat on the pectus), upper margin of 
meta-epimeron and the posterior margin of the basal tergum of 
the abdomen narrowly white; the anterior and intermediate legs 
except for a very small spot on the intermediate and sometimes 
on the anterior femora at apex above, immaculate; posterior 
tibiae at base slightly faintly black; costa of fore wing darker. 
Mesoscutellum quite strongly convex. 
One male from New Hampshire (Durham) differs from the 
female as follows: lower portion of cheek, prostcrnum, ventral 
face of proplcura, lateral face of pronotum, upper posterior margin 
of meso-cpimeron, white; the venter except the hypopygidium 
which is blackish, reddish white; terga 3 to 6 inclusive pale brown; 
pectus and legs somewhat paler; an elongate black spot on the 
femora at apex above ; a longitudinal blackish line on the anterior 
and intermediate tibiae above; posterior tibiae almost entirely 
black; intermediate tarsi darkish above (anterior missing). 
I do not regard this male as typical, and in this view am borne 
