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tween these two, is the forking of the fourth vein in the St. 

 Augustine specimen. Therefore according to our present class- 

 ification, this would throw these two into entirely separate 

 groups, although I am rather doubtful that this character is 

 of so much importance as that. The question then arose, is 

 this Florida specimen a true lateralisf Dr. Calvert's sketch of 

 the wing and Mr. Banks' notes, and sketch of the ovipositor, 

 for the type is a female, at once settled this query and re- 

 vealed the fact that we have an entirely different species, in 

 lateralis Walker than we had surmised. The fourth vein is 

 normal, not forked, the ovipositor is long, and tapering from 

 an elongate base, and the post-femora are thickened and 

 spinose. This at once suggests my femoratus', in fact, I do not 

 hesitate to consider them synonymous. 



Therefore my determinations as houghi Kertz., should be 

 changed to pallipes Johns, and those as femoratus Cress, 

 changed to houghi Kertz. 



P. pallipes Johnson. 



houghi (Kertz.) Cress. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., XXXVI, 308, 1911. 



Before me is another female of this species from Ithaca, 

 N. Y., August 14, 1904 (C. W. Johnson), which varies a little 

 from the description of this species given in my previous paper 



referred to (4). The upper half of the front is polished; sec- 

 ond antennal joint black ; abdomen rather obscurely shining, 



finely granular, with segments 2-4 distinctly yellow laterally; 

 joints of the post tarsi not noticeably flattened or serrated. 



P. reipublicae Walker. 



Mr. J. R. Malloch, of the Bureau of Entomology at Wash- 

 ington (5), thinks that this species may be the same as P. 

 atramontensis Banks (6) on account of the coloration of the 

 femora. From the notes and sketch made by Mr. Banks, of 

 Walker's type, the abdomen is broad, with the hypopygium 

 large, which characters would seem to indicate albofasciatus 

 Hough, rather than Bank's species ; the latter having a moder- 



(4) Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XXXVI, 308. 



(5) Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLIII, Hod, 291, 1912. 



(6) Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., XXXVI, 312, 1911. 



