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apical carina of propodeum complete, forming sharp sublateral teeth; 

 intercubitus about 3.5 as long as the width of radial vein. 



Head, mandible, and thorax brownish ferruginous, the collar, sub- 

 tegular ridge, and propodeal teeth whitish; antenna fulvous bro^vn, a 

 little paler basally, with a white band (incomplete below) that covers 

 about 5.7 segments; palpi stramineous; legs fulvous brown, the hind 

 femur apically and the hind tibia a little darker, the front and middle 

 coxae and first trochanters stramineous; front wing wealdy suffused 

 with brown, its base and an indefinite median transverse band paler; 

 hind wing faintly brownish, darker apically; tergites 1 and 2 dark 

 ferruginous, the apical 0.15 ± of the first tergite whitish and basal 

 0.4 ± of second tergite infuscate; tergite 3 varying from dark ferrugi- 

 nous to fuscous; tergites 4-8 fuscous. 



Type: 9, Tarpon Springs, Fla., Mar. 21, 1950, H. Townes (Wash- 

 mgton, USNM 63817). 



Paratypes: 9, 2 miles west of Archer, Fla., Mar. 23, 1953, H. F. 

 Howden (Townes). 9, Oneco, Fla., Mar. 25, 1955, John C. Martin 

 (Ottawa). 4d^, flying low over the ground in deciduous woods, 

 Tarpon Springs, Fla., Mar. 20 and 21, 1950, H. Townes (Townes). 

 cf , 9, Okefenokee Swamp, Ga., July 27, 1939, R. H. Beamer (Lawrence 

 and Townes). 



2. Diapetimorpha alabama Cushman 



Figures 331,f,g 



Diapetimorpha alabama Cushman, 1929, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 74, art. 16, 

 p. 34; cf , 9. Type; ?, Pyriton, Clay Co., Ala. (Washington). 



Male: Front wing 3.8 to 5.4 mm. long; clypeus moderately convex; 

 cheek about 0.62 as long as basal width of mandible; tyloids obsoles- 

 cent, in the form of low, indistinct ridges that extend about 0.3 the 

 length of several segments; metapleurum with very fine, indistinct, 

 rather sparse punctures, with a weakly developed juxtacoxal carina 

 that is usually incomplete; intercubitus about 3.5 as long as width of 

 radial vein. 



Head and body light fulvous, marked with white and fuscous as in 

 figure 331,f; palpi and scape whitish, the scape light brown above; 

 pedicel and flagellum fulvous, brown above; legs light fulvous, the 

 front coxa and trochanters and the hind tarsus pale stramineous, the 

 apical 0.4 of fifth segment of hind tarsus brownish. 



Female: Front wing 3.9 to 6.0 mm. long; clypeus moderately con- 

 vex; cheek about 0.63 as long as basal width of mandible; metapleurum 

 with strong, irregular longitudinal wrinkling and interspersed small, 

 indistinct punctures; apical carina of propodeum forming acute sub- 

 lateral teeth, indistinct or absent laterad of the teeth, strong and 

 complete between the teeth; intercubitus about 0.35 as long as width 

 of radial vein. 



