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the color of abdomen excludes the other related species. Afyrm. con- 

 taininatus was mentioned in a note to M. irroratiis Burm., ii , 995, 11. 

 The probable type was described in Giebel Zeits., vol. 52, 214, 30. 



3. Macaraiida signata Hag. 



Body hairy, yellow, striped with brown ; not very slender. Head 

 small, face yellow, eyes margined with bright yellow, which is followed 

 inside by a black line in the groove and another median one ; antennas 

 brown with a bright yellow ring, followed on the face by a brown triangu- 

 lar spot; vertex elevated; its front margin notched in middle and on each 

 side; above dark brown, sides and occiput largely yellow, also two trans- 

 verse interrupted bands ; a pale transversal band before the vertex, separ- 

 ated from the antennie by a narrow brown one ; maxillary and labial palpi 

 as in M. conspersiis, yellow, apical joint light brown ; prothorax yellow, 

 above with a broad brown band with a fine yellow median line and a 

 yellow stripe on each side ; sides whitish-villous ; thorax yellowish with 

 brown stripes, the pattern similar to M. coiispersa. Abdomen of male 

 about as long as the wings, less slender, whitish-villous, yellow, very finely 

 sprinkled with blackish dots ; sides and apex blackish-brown ; a fine black 

 median line on 3rd and 4th segments ; appendages as in AT. coiispersa ; 

 abdomen of female much shorter than the wings, black, the apical half 

 with some ill-defined yellow marks on the sides and. tip of segments ; legs 

 in shape and color as in M. cofispersa, but joints 3 abd 4 black only on 

 tip. The genitals are light brown, similar to conspcrsa. 



Wings hyaline, not sprinkled ; veins brown, interrupted with yellow ; 

 pterostigma yellow, faintly darker inside ; venation as in conspersa, with 

 the important exception that the costal space of front wings has only one 

 series of areoles ; the transversals in the apical half of the wing are 

 forked. 



Length of body, male, 27 m.m.; female, 21 m.m. Exp. al., 46 m.m. 



Hab. — A female, fully developed, from White Fish Point, Lake 

 Superior, by Mr. Hubbard, but the yellow color of the body is more slate 

 color. Ludington, Mich., Mr. Pierce. The couple before me, in bad 

 condition, were sent in 1881 ; later, when Mr. Pierce worked here, these 

 specimens were mislaid and only turned up now. I am certain that this 

 species was not among the specimens brought over with him. The male 

 apparently has been transformed only a short time ago, therefore it can be 

 presumed that its abdomen has not attained its full length. 



