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included under the designation of paratypes for the following description, 

 which is based on an examination of 40 femxles and 5 males. Types are 

 deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 



Aleraporus Vandifiei, n. sp. 



Female : Head and thorax dark greenish, clothed with thin and fine 

 silvery pubescence, a thick linear patch on each side of the metathorax ; 

 abdomen smooth, shining greenish, thinly pubescent on apical segments, 

 venter deeply keeled; head transverse, somewhat wider than thorax, finely 

 reticulated rather than punctured on occiput, front and cheeks, with con- 

 vergent striae at oral margin of middle face ; front above insertion of 

 antennae hollowed for reception of scapes ; mouth-parts ferruginous, eacli 

 mandible with four denticles ; antennae about as long as thorax, scape dull 

 reddish; flagellum dull reddish beneath, daiker above, with fine silvery 

 pubescence ; pedicel about twice the length of the three ring-joints 

 together, but scarcely longer than the first funicle-joint, whicii ap[)ears 

 distinctly longer than wide; second and third funicle-joints slightly longer 

 than wide, fourth and fifth quadrate ; club expanded at junction of first 

 and second joints, the third forming a small conical tip. Anterior ocellus 

 situated but little in advance of a median point between the posterior 

 ones. 



Thorax with fine shallow thimble-pitted punctures, contiguous and 

 distinctly larger than on head; length of thorax scarcely exceeds the width, 

 parapsidal furrows very faint only on anterior half of mesonotum. 

 Metathorax very finely punctured, with a median longitudmal carina ; 

 metathoracic neck very short, smooth ; lateral folds indicated by basal 

 foveolae only, si)iracles very small, broadly oval ; spiracular sulci very 

 deep and distinct. 



Tegulae fulvous ; wing-veins yellow, ciliate, stigmal vein shorter than 

 marginal or postmarginal by about one-fourth the length. Legs yellow, 

 excepting the coxae, femora in greater part between the base and apex, and 

 1.1st tarsal joint outwardly, which are dark brown or fuliginou''. Tibiae of 

 middle and posterior legs little longer than femora or tarsi, which are 

 about equal in length, but no noticeable difference in these respects with 

 fore legs. Comparatively the fore legs are shorter than the others. 



Type : Piano, Texas, July 26, 1909; emerged September 11. 



Male : Antennae with larger microscopical pits than with female ; the 

 first and second ring joints very small and compressed, the third appears 

 as the first joint of funicle, but is smaller and shorter than the true 

 funicular joints. Abdomen hardly as long, or at most not longer than 



