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The front tibiae are not distinctly widened apically in this 

 S])ecies, as they usually are, and the apical spur projects inward 

 nearly at right angles to the axis of the tibia. 



71. Pachybrachys confederatus new species 



Yellow, with dark brown or fuscous standard markings, variable 

 in development; eyes of male somewhat less distant than the 

 vertical width of their upper lobes, in the female separated by a 

 distance subequal to the width of their u])])er lobes; front with- 

 out ocular lines; elytral striae impressed, more or less broken; 

 front claws not appreciably enlarged in the male. Ave. length 

 2.9 mm. New York to North Carolina. 



Head not appreciably wider than the thoracic apex, markings moderate to 

 broad. Eyes separated by one and one-third to one and two-fifths times the 

 length of the basal antennal joint in the male, and by the length of the first 

 two joints or slightly more in the female. Antennae fully four-fifths as long 

 as the body in the male, the tenth joint not much less than four times as long 

 as wide, yellow with basal and outer joints more or less infuscate. 



Prolhorax moderately transverse, sides moderately arcuately narrowed from 

 a little before the base; punctuation moderately coarse and close; M more or 

 less broken and diffuse but usually rather broadly marked, and consisting of 

 dark brown or fuscous spots overlaid upon stiU more vague and diffuse shades 

 of paler brown; side margins not smooth or only partially and imperfectly so. 



Elytral disk confusedly punctate in the baso-sutural region, striae distinctly 

 impressed, especially at sides and rear, where they are well defined, becoming 

 broken or confused at the middle of the disk; submarginal stria with strong 

 subhumeral dislocation; marginal intersj^ace impunctate or nearly so; shield 

 small, yellow, and moderately convex; standard spots varj-ing from rather 

 small and well isolated to broad and more or less confluent. 



Pygidium fuscous with the usual yellow spots. Body beneath blackish with 

 sides of ventral segments — especially the terminal one — yellow. Legs yellow 

 with broad median femoral and tibial fuscous rings or shades. 



Length 2.8 to 3.1 mm.; width 1.5 to l.G mm. 



Distrihuiion. — New York: cf type, without definite locality, but j^robabh- 

 from the vicinity of New York City. Connecticut: exact locality not indicated. 

 Virginia: Pennington Gap, June 26 (Hubbard & Schwarz). A'orth Carolina: 

 Black Mountains, June (Van Dyke). Missouri: Kansas City, June (Alacken- 

 zie in Am. Ent. Soc. Coll.), 1 9 , identity doul)tful. 



This species is very closely alli(Ml to and almost exactly identical 

 in appearance to 7-elictus, differing, however, in its distinctly less 

 distant eyes, which fact of course accounts for its remoteness from 

 the latter species in the tabular arrangement. The side margins 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XLI. 



