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Internal male genitalia. Styles with margins of anterior half sinuately 

 tapering, distal half stout and strongly curved; the large, club-shaped and 

 coarsely granular apices strongly diverging. Connective small, heart-shaped, 

 with the excision wide and the apex broadly rounding. CEdagus broad basally, 

 narrowing to the middle, bearing two small basal processes and a larger apical 

 one near the tip of which, on the ventral surface, is the fimbriated opening of 

 the penis. 



Distribution. This species is largely southern and eastern in its 

 distribution. The many specimens examined by the writer, in addi- 

 tion to those mentioned by Van Duzee, are distributed as follows: 

 Charter Oak, Pa. (J. N. KnuU) ; Pt. Royal, Harrisburg, Rockville, 

 Pa. (J. G. Sanders) ; Lakehurst, N. J. (J. B. Weiss) ; Great Falls, 

 Md., Berkeley, W. Va., Ft. Royal, Va., Washington, D. C. (Heide- 

 mann) ; Orangeburg, S. C. (F. H. Lathrop) ; Kansas City, Mo. (F. 

 Rogers) ; Bisc Bay, Jacksonville, Fla., Gainesville, Fla. (C. J. 

 Drake) ; Ardmore, Okla. (F. C. Bishopp) ; Jacksonville, Tex. (W. D. 

 Pierce) ; Boerne, Tex. (F. C. Pratt) ; Victoria, Rosser, Tex. (J. D. 

 Mitchell) ; Kushla, Ala. (A. H. Sturtevant) ; Alabama, Florida, 

 Mexico (C. F. Baker) ; Knoxville, Nashville, Tenn. (W. B. Cart- 

 wright, C. C. Hill) ; Nashville, Covey Spring, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

 (Geo. G. Ainslie) ; Colliersville, Clarksville, Paris, Lexington, Tenn. 

 (Dwight M. De Long) ; Agricultural College, Mississippi (H. E. 

 Weed) ; Cherokee, Bourbon and Miami counties, Kansas (R. H. 

 Beamer) ; Virginia, labeled Jassits tructilis, (Uhler) ; Spring Creek, 

 Okefinokee Swamp, Bainbridge, Ga. (J. C. Bradley) ; Little Rock, 

 Ark.; Capa, S. D. 



E. L. Dickerson reports what are presumably this species from 

 Cologne, Lakehurst and Egg Harbor, N. J. 



Remarks. The writer has examined the three type specimens, one 

 male and two females, of Adnopterus acuminatus from the collec- 

 tion of the Iowa State College, and the female type from the Cornell 

 LTniversity collection. The two female specimens from Maryland 

 and Virginia are clearly of a different species from the male and fe- 

 male from California, as shown by a comparison of the last ventral 

 segment of the two females. It seems evident, though, that the ma- 

 jority of the eight specimens from which Van Duzee described the 

 species were from the East or Southeast, and that he evidently meant 

 to describe a species with such a distribution. Accordingly these 

 eastern females are retained as types of this species, while the two 

 California specimens, along with a large amount of western material, 

 are placed in the following species, which not only is clearly western 

 in its distribution, but is decidedly different as to the genitalia of 

 both males and females from the above species. 



