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three or four pale rings, the apex of tibiae and tarsi dark brown to black. 

 Pronotum with lateral carinae without anterior process, 1 ' 4 its hind lobe 

 with median ridges low and broad. Length, 4 — 4.5 mm. 



Falls Church, Va. (Banks). Bucharest (U.S.Nat. Mus.) ; 

 determined by Montandon. A European species known in this 

 country from New England west to Oregon and southwest to 

 Maryland and Virginia. The Ploiar.ia metadata Haldeman (1848, 

 151) is a synonym. 



499 (700). Empicoris pilosus (Fieber), 1861, 149. 



Elongate, slender. Pale grayish-yellow. Head with a median line, 

 forked in front, fuscous ; front lobe of pronotum with three or four 

 oblong fuscous spots; elytra mottled with large fuscous spots, the veins 

 dull yellow; under surface in great part pale brownish-yellow, the ven- 

 trals tinged with fuscous; front femora with three dark brown bands, 

 the apical one the wider; middle and hind femora with four narrow dark 

 rings, and a broad one near apex. Antennae and legs with numerous erect 

 yellowish hairs which are three or four times longer than the thickness 

 of the segments. Length, 6.5 — 7 mm. 



Marne, France (U. S. Nat. Mus.). A European species rang- 

 ing through the northern part of this country, from New Eng- 

 land west to Victoria, B. C. Definite records from the interior 

 are scarce, but Hussey (1921, 10) mentions it as taken July 

 20 from a spider web in Gogebic Co., Mich. E. pilosus is usually 

 listed as a variety of E. vagabundus (Linn.), also a European 

 species which occurs in western Canada. However, the anten- 

 nae and legs of that species bear only very short hairs and the 

 general color is more fuscous. A comparison of typical ex- 

 amples of both forms leads to the conclusion that they are 

 very distinct species. The P. hirtipes Banks (1912, 97) is a 

 synonym. 



III. Lutevopsis Champion, 1898, 165. 



Elongate, slender winged species, having the head about as 

 long as front lobe of pronotum, convex and obliquely narrowed 

 behind, without frontal spine (fig. 14) ; eyes prominent; beak 

 with basal joint shorter than second; pronotum elongate, the 

 front lobe one-third the longer, cylindrical, widest in front, 



64 In the second paragraph under 2, p. 15, of their key, McAtee & Malloch say : 

 "lateral carina? more or less distinctly produced or capitate at anterior extremities." 

 Under this, according to their key, come the species they treat as errabundus and 

 culidformis, yet in their notes under culiciformis, p. 23, they say: it is distinguished 

 from errabunctus "by the lateral carina of pronotum lacking the anterior process." 

 They place as a synonym of culiciformis the errabundus of Banks (1909, 46), which 

 I regard as the true errabundus, yet it has the carina? so produced, thus agreeing 

 with their key but not their statement under culiciformis. 



