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The tarsal spui' is about oue-half the length of the metatarsus, the latter is 

 three-fourths longer than joints 3-4 together; claw s\nn]iiT io reticulata, rather 

 smaller; posterior coxje hairy beneath ; trochanters nude and polished within, 

 clothed on the outer side with shoi't hairs; femora minutely roughened, clothed 

 with fine hairs; tibije longitudinally aciculate, sparingly hairy, clavate at apex ; 

 tarsi densely covered with fine hairs; tibia and tarsi without spines. 



The distance from the metanotum to the petiole is .48 mm., the petiole is 1.03 

 mm. long, the abdomen 1.32 mm. long; petiole obliquely finely and closely stri- 

 ate on the sides and above. Abdomen orbicular, smooth and polished, the second 

 segment occupying three-fourths its length ; segments beyond the third visible 

 only at their extremities. Length 6 mm. 



Hub. — PeDiisylviinia (Philadelphia, July 8, 1899; Delaware Co., 

 July 14, 1898 ; Lehigh Gap, July 1, 1897, and July 18, 1900, H. 

 L. Viereck ; August 1903, J. C. Bradley j; Virginia; Canada; New 

 York (Flatbush,"L. I., J. L. Zabriskie, July 28, 1893; Ithaca, July 

 17, 1904, R. S. Woglum ; July 9, 1904, July 17, 1905, J. G. Bar- 

 low) ; Michigan (Gold Ledge and Constantine ; Kan.*as (Law- 

 rence, June 18, 1896, H. Kahl ; Baldwin, June, J. C. Bridwell). 



Type. — S, 9 , in the aiithor'.s collection. Paratypes in the col- 

 lections of the American Entomological Society; United States 

 National Museum ; Cornell University and Rhode Island Agricul- 

 tural College. The type female shall take precedence over the type 

 male. 



The most abundant species of the genus in the north. 



Ilyptia iiiylacriflonianes u. s]*. 

 (Fig. S.) 

 9- — Black; anterior and middle legs brown. Clothed with white hairs. 

 Head from above transverse-quadrate; the anterior edge between the eyes 

 prominent, not evenly convex nor emarginate mesally ; the space behind the 

 eyes medium. Profile somewhat pointed above, broadest below the antennii'; 

 eyes ol)lique, slightly emarginate externally ; forehead flat; temples moderately 

 narrow above, much widened below ; malar space slightly less than one-half the 

 length of the eyes. Face from in front nearly round, slightly prolonged below, 

 eyes slightly prominent ; no antennal basin ; apex of mandibles red ; the cheeks 

 are separated from the face by a distinct carina, jiassing from the upjjer angle of 

 the base of the mandibles to the eyes, then parallel to and but a short distance 

 from the inner margins of the latter to slightly above the insertion of the an- 

 tennae; face and clypeus not gibl)ous; face, forehead, vertex, temples anu cheeks 

 closely, coarsely and umbilicately punctured ; the punctures less distinct around 

 the antenna;, arranged in rows on the temjiles; head narrowed behind the eyes; 

 posterior edge not very sharp; no carina between the antennae; the latter 

 inserted below the middle of the compound eyes, plainly subclavate ; .scape about 

 one-quarter as long as the flagellum, two-fifths longer than joints 3 -f- 4 ; jiedicel 

 over three-fifths as long as the first joint of the flagellum. 



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