. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 236 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 Polysphincta takewakii Uchida, 1927, Ins. Matsumurana, vol. 1, p. 172; d\ 9 • New synonymy. Types: 2c?, 3? , Toyama, Honshu, Japan (Sapporo). Biology: Nielsen, 1937, Entomologiske Meddelelser, vol. 20, pp. 25-27. Front wing of male to mm. long, of female to mm. long; front femur and nearly always also middle femur of female with a blunt median tooth beneath; hind femur about as long as deep in male, about as long as deep in female. Black. Scape and pedicel partly or entirely whit
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 236 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 Polysphincta takewakii Uchida, 1927, Ins. Matsumurana, vol. 1, p. 172; d\ 9 • New synonymy. Types: 2c?, 3? , Toyama, Honshu, Japan (Sapporo). Biology: Nielsen, 1937, Entomologiske Meddelelser, vol. 20, pp. 25-27. Front wing of male to mm. long, of female to mm. long; front femur and nearly always also middle femur of female with a blunt median tooth beneath; hind femur about as long as deep in male, about as long as deep in female. Black. Scape and pedicel partly or entirely white or pale brown- ish in front; mouth parts, tegula, subtegular ridge, and hind corner of pronotum white; front and middle coxae and all trochanters ivory, or in specimens from Europe and northern North America often stramineous; hind part of pronotum, mesoscutum except for median stripe, scutellum, and mesopleurum partly or entirely fulvous in many North American specimens, particularly in larger specimens and from southern part of the range; front and middle legs beyond trochanters ivory to light fulvous, the last segment of their tarsi largely dark brown; hind coxa ivory or fulvous, sometimes blackish basally; hind femur fulvous, its apex and usually a stripe on upper margin white; hind tibia white, with rather narrow infuscate subbasal band and its apical fuscous; hind tarsus stramineous, brownish apically, the apex of each segment dark Figure 99.—Localities for Acrodadyla quadrisculpta. One specimen ( 9 , Fish Creek, Douglas Island, Alaska, Aug. 6, 1958, W. C. Frohne) is peculiar in having the fulvous color of the hind coxa and femur replaced by black and the normal infuscate markings on the legs unusually dark. The one cocoon at hand is fusiform but square in cross section, with four prominent longitudinal corners, papery in texture, and of a light brown color. Meconium is partially pushed through a hole at the hind end, and in the front end an irregular h
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