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Glencarljni, Va.; Maj 24 at Stone Mountain, Ga.; September 21 at 

 Falls Church, Va.; September 26 at Willard, Mo.; October 3 at Wash- 

 ington, D.C.; and October 4 at Venus, Greenville Co., S.C. 



This species is widel}^ distributed in the Carolinian fauna and there 

 are several Austroriparian records for it. 



8. Joppidium dubiosum Cresson 



Joppidhim duhiosum Cresson, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 1873, 

 p. 138; cf, ?. Lectotype: 9, Cordova, Mexico (Philadelphia). 



Opisosextus (!) rvficeps Szepligeti, 1916, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, vol. 14, p. 

 240; cT. Name preoccupied in /oppidww by Walsh, 1873. New synonymy. 

 Type: cf, Mexico (Budapest). 



Front wing 8.5 to 12.0 mm. long; mesopleurum and metapleurum 

 of male with fine, weak punctures that are separated by about 2.5 

 their diameter, entirely smooth except for restricted areas of indistinct 

 irregular wrinkling on mesopleurum; mesopleurum of female with 

 about half of its surface occupied by weak, irregular, longitudinal 

 Avrinlding, the rest with small, weak, irregular punctures that are sepa- 

 rated by about 1.5 their diameter; metapleurum of female with small, 

 rather weak punctures that are separated by about 2.0 their diameter; 

 basal carina of propodeum absent to subcomplete (even when com- 

 plete it is blunt and indistinct), averaging more complete in female 

 than in male; propodeum smooth except for minute, weak, distant 

 punctures, wdth coarse transverse Avrinkles on its apical 0.3 ± in male, 

 on its apical 0.55 ± in female. 



Black, ^yiih black wings. Head, mouth parts, and scape ferru- 

 ginous, with a variable amount of fuscous on occiput, vertex, and 

 median part of frons, the fuscous areas averaging larger and darker in 

 males; pedicel ferruginous, in male brown above; flagellum of male 

 dark brown, vnih a yellowish white band occupjing about 13 segments ; 

 flagellum of female yellow, fulvous basalh^, its apical 0.4 black; thorax 

 mth ferruginous tinges anteriorl}^; front and middle coxae and tro- 

 chanters brown, the front ones paler; front and middle femora fulvous, 

 more or less brownish basally; all tibiae and tarsi yellov\^, the apex of 

 tarsi tinged with brown; apex of hind femur tinged with yellow. 



Specimens (12 cf, 99): From Alabama (Pyriton in Clay Co.); 

 Georgia (Atlanta, Cleveland, Kennesaw Mt., Kirkwood, Stone Moun- 

 tain, and Toccoa); South Carolina (Greenville, Seneca, and Table 

 Rock); Virginia (Petersburg); and Mexico (7 kilometers west of El 

 Cercado in Nuevo Leon at 2,100 ft., 29 kilometers north of Saltillo in 

 Coahuila at 4,850 ft., and "km 25 RR" from Sureste in Vera Cruz). 



Dates of collections for United States specimens are from early 

 summer to late smnmer, the earliest and latest dates being: May 26 

 at Atlanta, Ga.; June 16 at Toccoa, Ga.; October 1 at Table Rock, 

 Greenville Co., S.C; and October 1 and 3 at Greenville, S.C. The 



