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white; antenna dark brown or blackish, except for the white stripe 

 on flagellum ; clypeus and mandible with a ferruginous stain ; propodeal 

 crests with a stramineous or fulvous tinge; palpi ferruginous; front 

 and middle legs fulvous, their tarsi except the last segment paler; 

 hind coxa, trochanters, and femur fulvous, the apical 0.1 it of the 

 femur weakly infuscate; hind tibia fulvous, increasingly darkened 

 toward the apex, its basal 0.2 yellowish fulvous ; hind tarsus stramin- 

 eous, its last segment yellowish fulvous; abdomen fulvoferruginous, 

 tergites 6-8 mostly infuscate, the sixth and seventh tergites marked 

 with white as described above. Rarely the fifth tergite is also infuscate. 



Type: 9, Lyme, Conn., June 19, 1918, Wm. Middleton (Washing- 

 ton, USNM 63749). 



Paratypes (24 cf, 129): From Connecticut (Green Falls, Lyme, and 

 North Stonington); Maryland (Glen Echo, "Jackson's Island," 

 Plummers Island, and Takoma Park); New Jersey (Moorestown) ; 

 New York (Greene Co. and Ithaca); Ohio (Akron and Scioto Co.); 

 Pennsylvania (Crisp in Westmoreland Co., Hummelstown, Inglenook 

 in Dauphin Co., Spring Brook, and VaUey Forge); South Carolina 

 (Venus); and Virginia (Black Pond in Fairfax Co., Dead Run in 

 Fairfax Co., and Glencarlyn). 



Collection dates range from mid-spring to mid-fall. Uimsually 

 early and late dates are: May 14 at Spring Brook, Pa.; May 18 at 

 Akron, Ohio; October 4 at Venus, S.C; and October 16 and 26 at 

 Plummers Island, Md. 



Our collections have been in the undergrowth of rich, deciduous 

 woods. 



This species occurs from Connecticut and Ohio south to north- 

 western South Carolina. 



2. Agrothereutes alutarius, new species 



Figure 327,b 



Front wing 3.3 to 5.0 mm. long; clypeus rather small, very strongly 

 convex; face of moderate width, very strongly mat, its median 0.25 a 

 little raised and with fine indistinct punctures; mesopleurum strongly 

 mat, finely wrinlded, and finely punctate in a combination that gives 

 a scabrous surface; mesoscutum rather strongly mat, with small 

 punctures that are separated by about 1.2 their diameter, a median 

 stripe on each of the three mesoscutal lobes often subpolished or pol- 

 ished; propodeal crests weak; intercubiti moderately convergent an- 

 teriorly, the areolet subpentagonal; second tergite very strongly mat, 

 with small weak punctures that are separated by about 1.5 their 

 diameter in male, by about 2.3 their diameter in female; ovipositor 

 tip as in figure 327, b. 



