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with a slightly enlarged bulb at the tip, the lower in the 

 form of a hollowed out sheath with even margins; sub- 

 genital plate short, somewhat triangular behind ; subanal 

 lobes terminating in short, upcurved spines. 



Female. Eighth sternite hardly produced into a sub- 

 genital plate ; a narrow, transverse black line between the 

 seventh and eighth sternite and usually the hind margin 

 of the eighth sternite is more heavily chitinized. 



Distribution. — The male type of Burmeister from Penn- 

 sylvania is in the Zoological Museum, Halle, Germany. We 

 have examined specimens from Maine, Waldeboro, March- 

 May (J. N. Lovell) ; New Hampshire, Jeffrey, March 14, 

 1917 (C. W. Johnson); Mass., Methuen, April 3; New 

 York, Ithaca, Feb. -April ; McLean, May 9; Northville, 

 Hamilton Co., April 27, 1923 ; Staten Island, Feb. 12 ; Mos- 

 holu, March 28; Pike, May 13 and April 2; Maryland, 

 Cabin John Bridge, Feb. 26 and March 12 (R. C. Shan- 

 non) ; Plummer's Island, Feb. 23 (W. V. Warner) ; Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, Washington, Feb. 9, 1913 (Alex. Wet- 

 more) ; March 1, 1902 (H. S. Barber) ; Virginia, Dead 

 Run, Fairfax Co., Feb. 24 (H. S. Barber). 



Through the courtesy of Dr. Walther Horn of the Berlin 

 Zoological Museum, we have had the opportunity of ex- 

 amining Burmeister's types of this species. One of the 

 two males which Burmeister ascribed to this species is 

 Capnella recta Clsn. ; the other specimen agrees exactly 

 with his original description and undoubtedly is the type. 



