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foveas fairly deep ; colour reddish brown with the carinte and margins 

 light yellowish brown. 



Front about twice as long as wide, sides very slightly arcuate, widest 

 a little below the eyes ; clypeo-frontal suture slightly curved, median carina 

 distinct, forked just below the apex of the head ; colour uniform reddish 

 brown except a narrow strip along the clypeo-frontal suture, which is light 

 yellow. 



Clypeus uniformally black with the median carina fairly distinct. 



Second segment of the antennœ a little more than twice as long 

 as the first segment, second segment roughned by tubercles, proximal 

 segment black, second segment yellowish brown. 



Prothorax not quite so deep as the vertex, carinae distinct, the lateral 

 carince quite widely divergent, fading out just before the posterior margin, 

 posterior margin distinctly concave ; colour reddish brown, except the 

 narrow posterior edge, which is almost white. 



Cox?e light yellow ; femora and most of the tibise reddish brown, tips 

 of the tibiae and the first two tarsal segments very light yellow, last tarsal 

 segment dark brown, spur almost while with large, prominent, black 

 serrations. . 



Scutellum almost twice as deep as the prothorax, sides very decidedly 

 arcuate, tip a rounded point, carinae all distinct, lateral carinae reaching 

 the posterior margin of the scutellum and curving outward; colour dark 

 brown, except the tip, which is light yellow, almost white. 



Elytra extending one-third their length beyond the tip of the abdo- 

 men, veins brown, membrane smoky ; abdomen uniformly dark brown. 



Genitalia : Pygofers ending in a blunt point, reddish brown, ovi- 

 positor reddish brown at the tip, lighter at the base, plates dark within, 

 lighter on the free edge, apex very gradually curved, extending about 

 one-third the length of the pygofers, style light yellow. Length, including 

 elytra, 3 mm. 



]\[acropterous <^ . — Same form, size and general characters as the 

 female. Genitalia : Opening of the pygofers broad oval, superior wall of 

 anal tube prolonged into long, incurving, tusk-like horns, the points resting 

 in indentations of the inferior wall of pygofers, styles large hook like organs 

 with the hooks pointing outward ; colour dark reddish brown. 



Described from a pair taken by the author at Middletown, N. Y., 

 July 12, 1910. Two females of this species were taken at the same 

 locality on July ir and 18, 1910. Types in the author's collection. 



