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e. Ovipositor longer than hind femora; species of northern 



range. 



f. Occiput with four dark stripes; general color rusty black 



to sooty brown; larger, length of body, males 7.5 10, 



females, 8 11 mm. 320. FASCIATUS. 



ff. Occiput without evident black stripes; general color very 



dark; smaller, males, 6.7 8, females, 7.3 9 mm. 



320a. ABORTIVUS. 



ee. Ovipositor no longer than hind femora; species of southern 

 range; color and size of fasciatus. 320b. socius. 



dd. Face below the antennae a uniform shining piceous (Fig. 

 224, a); general color with a grayish suffusion; lateral 

 margins of dorsal field of male tegmina narrowly yellow. 

 g. Ovipositor much longer than hind femora; distribution 

 northern. 321. GRISEUS. 



gg. Ovipositor nearly one-third shorter than hind femora; dis- 

 tribution southern and southwestern. 321a. FUNERALIS. 

 cc. Ovipositor no longer than hind femora; black markings, es- 

 pecially in females, scattered to give a mottled appearance; 

 brachypterous, wings absent. 



li. Head without an ivory-white bar between the eyes; hind fe- 

 mora without two lengthwise fuscous stripes; general 

 range northern. 322. MACULATUS. 



hli. Head with a narrow white cross-bar between the eyes, this 

 bordered above with a wider shining black one (Fig. 224, 

 &); hind femora usually with two fuscous stripes; gen- 

 eral range southern. 323. AMBITIOSUS. 

 bb. Ovipositor evidently but not strongly curved, about two-thirds as 



long as hind femora (Figs. 229, 231.) 



i. Larger, length of body, male, rarely under 6 mm.; color not a 

 uniform pitchy brown; habitat not confined to sphagnum 

 bogs. 



;'. Pronotum and femora clay-yellow mottled with fuscous; 

 wings absent; apex of ovipositor armed above with rather 

 stout, very sharp teeth; general range northern. 



324. VARIEGATUS. 



jj. Pronotum and femora not distinctly mottled with fuscous; 

 wings usually present and longer than abdomen; ovipositor 

 armed with very fine, close-set teeth; general range 

 southern. 



k. Occiput without a narrow dark cross-line; tegmina of fe- 

 males as long as abdomen, their tips narrowly rounded; 

 general color dark brown, not distinctly mottled. 



325. CUBEXSIS. 



kk. Occiput with a narrow dark cross-bar behind the eyes; teg- 

 mina of female about three-fifths the length of abdomen, 

 their tips subtruncate; general color paler brown mot- 

 tled with fuscous. 325a. MORJIONIUS 

 ii. Smaller, length of body, male, rarely more than 5.8 mm.; gen- 

 eral color uniform piceous (rarely, southern specimens, dull 



