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thorax, also not so highly polished. Front subopake, dark brown, the 

 opake mesofrontal much narrower than parafrontal, scarcely at- 

 taining lunule or narrowly so. Face opake, tawny to brown with faint 

 spots laterad of antennae and narrow oral margin black; orbits and 

 cheeks not noticeably silvery. Antennae with second and base of third 

 joints tawny to brown, latter two-and-one-half times longer than 

 broad. 



Thorax opake above, entirely subcinereous ; prothorax, humeri, post- 

 alar region and scutellum tawny to brown. Sternopleural comb dense. 



Abdomen metallic blue to black, subcinereous with third and fourth 

 segments subopake, brown ; broad apical band on first densely cine- 

 reous. 



Fore coxae and femora, middle and hind femora translucent tawny 

 to brown with yellow subapical and basal bands ; fore tibiae and base 

 of their tarsi black leaving the remaining apical joints snow white; 

 middle and hind tibiae black, towards their apices and tarsi yellow to 

 tawny. 



Wings fuscus becoming diluted posteriorly, from base to apex of 

 auxiliary vein, narrow band over anterior c. v., another narrow band 

 beyond apex of first vein, hyaline. First vein ending slightly beyond 

 the more or less oblique posterior c. v. First posterior cell closed in 

 margin; anal cell long, ending less than length of post. c. v. before 

 margin. Length 8-10 mm. 



Male claspers short with anterior appendages as figured for angulata 

 Lw. (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc., XXXIV, pi. ii. Fig. 12, 1908.) 



Female with base of ovipositor three times as long as broad. 



Holotypc. $ , Billy's Island, Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, 

 June, 1912. In the Cornell University Collection. 



Paratypes. 4 5,79, with same data. 



Differs from antcnnaepes Say in having the base of fore 

 tarsi black, longer anal cell, longer antennae and in the form 

 of the male claspers, as well as by other characters mentioned. 

 It should not be confused with lasciva Fab., a neotropical and 

 apparently very closely related species, but which has a much 

 longer anal cell and simple claspers. 



Additions to the Entomological Collections, Carnegie Museum, 



Pittsburgh. 



The i ;th Annual Report of the Director, Dr. W. J. Holland, for 

 the year ending March 31, 1914, states that during the year there have 

 been added about 53,000 specimens of insects, the largest addition 

 for any year since the purchase of the Ulke collection of Coleoptera. 



