420 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
out by Provancher's description of the male and by an additional 
specimen from Ohio which I have seen that has the prosternum 
and ventral face of propleura and the entire abdominal dorsum 
black, while the elongate black spots at the apices of the anterior 
and intermediate femora and the longitudinal Vjlackish line on the 
anterior tibiae are not present. 
Length. — Females, 10.5-12.5 mm.; male, 10 mm. 
Redescribed from seven females and one male. 
Habitat. — Maine (July and August) ; Mt. Ascutney, Vermont; 
Mt. Washington, Durham, New Hampshire; Columbus, Ohio 
(May); Baldwin, Kansas (May); Quebec (?), Canada (Provan- 
cher) . 
This subspecies apparently does not occur in southern New 
England, or else it is very rare. 
Tenthredella lineata (Provancher). 
Tenthredo lineata Provancher, Nat. Can., vol. 10, 1878, p. 198, n. 9, 9 . 
Tenthredo lineata Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 8, 1880, p. 43, 9 . 
Tenthredo lineata Provancher, Faun. Ent. Can., vol. 2, 1883, p. 224, n. 9, 9 . 
Tenthredo lineata MacGillivray, Bull. Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv., no. 
22, 1916, p. 88. 
The type is in the Provancher Collection, Museum of Public 
Instruction, Quebec, Province of Quebec, Canada. 
Type locality, ? Province of Quebec, Canada. 
Female. — Head. — Black, shining; antennae more or less 
rufescent beyond the third segment; the following parts yellowdsh, 
or straw color: clypeus, labrum, mandibles, lower portion of 
cheek, lower orbit — extends as a rule slightly on to the lower 
portion of the inner orbit, — anteriormost portion of the supra- 
antennal ridges as a rule verj'^ narrowly, a minute elongate spot at 
the summit of the inner orbit; palpi sometimes reddish. Head 
behind eyes distinctly narrower than through them, and vertex 
plate distinctly wider than long; supra-antennal ridges usually 
quite prominent. 
Thorax. — Black; the following parts straw color, or white: 
more or less of the lower margin of the lateral face of the prono- 
tum, posterior dorsal margin of the lobes of collar rather broadly, 
tegulae, a comparatively narrow angulated or non-angulated 
