170 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 parts 



last segment and basal 0.35 of first segment brown; wings hyaline; 

 abdomen fulvous. 



Female: Fulvous. Orbit, palpi, upper and lower margins of pro- 

 notum, tegula, subtegular ridge, and scutellum, yellowish white; pedi- 

 cel and flagellum blackish brown, the flagellum with a white band that 

 covers about 4.5 segments and is light brown below; margins of meso- 

 scutum, area around scutella, and mesopleurum just below subtegular 

 ridge, fuscous; fifth segments of tarsi brown; segments 2-4 of hind 

 tarsus pale fulvous; wings hyaline. 



Specimens (161 cf, 859): From District of Columbia (Georgetown 

 and Washington); Florida (Paradise Key); Georgia (Blood Mt.); 

 Kansas (Douglas Co.); Maryland (Cabin John, Glen Echo, near Great 

 Falls, Mayo, Patuxent Refuge near Bowie, Plummers Island, near 

 Rockville, and Takoma Park); Michigan (East Lansing, Gladwin Co., 

 Muskegon Co., and Newaygo Co.); New Jersey (Clementon and 

 Moorestown); New York (Farmingdale, Flatbush, Greene Co., and 

 and Ithaca); North Carolina (Crabtree Meadows in Yancey Co. at 

 3,600 ft., Ilamrick, Highlands, Marshall, Mount Mitchell, Raleigh, 

 and Southern Pines); Pennsylvania (Crisp in Westmoreland Co.); 

 Rhode Island (Westerly); South Carolina (Columbia, Greenville, 

 McClellanville, and Table Rock State Park); Tennessee (Burrville 

 and Standing Stone State Park near AUons); Texas (Kerrville); 

 Virginia (Arlington, Dunn Loring, Falls Church, Glencarlyn, Great 

 Falls, Rosslyn, and Veitch); and West Virginia (Bolivar). 



Dates of collections are from late spring to mid-faU. Those before 

 June and after October are: April 2 at KerrviUe, Tex.; April 4 and 

 May 23 and 31 at Raleigh, N. C; April 8 at Bowie, Md.; April 12 at 

 Paradise Key, Fla.; May 5 to 7 in Standing Stone State Park, near 

 Allons, Tenn.; May 16, 18, 19, and 20 at McClellanville, S. C; May 

 30 in Douglas Co., Kans.; November 3 and 4 on Plummers Island, 

 Md.; November 7 at Arlington, Va.; and Nov.^mber 15 at Bowie, Md. 



The species is particularly common from mid-summer to early fall. 

 Its habitat is moist or mesophytic deciduous woods, rather low in the 

 bushes, usually not more than 60 cm. above the ground and frequently 

 at about 12 cm. This species occurs in the Carolinian and Austrori- 



parian faunas. 



3. Habrocryptoides virgeus, new species 



Front wing 4.7 to 6.5 mm. long; thorax of moderate proportions; 

 frons strongly mat, a little rugulose, and with rather dense, moderate 

 sized punctures; clypeus moderately wide, rather strongly convex, 

 its apical 0.35 flattened and strongly declivous, its apicolateral 

 corners somewhat reflexed; mesopleurum weakly mat and centrally 

 with a little weak wrinkling, its punctures of moderate size, strong, ra- 

 ther close in male, crowded in female; apical carina of propodeum 



