﻿art. 
  1 
  AMERICAN 
  PLOIABIINAE 
  McATEE 
  AND 
  MALLOCH 
  87 
  

  

  H. 
  G. 
  Barber 
  (Barber) 
  ; 
  Southern 
  Pines, 
  N. 
  C, 
  December, 
  N. 
  

   Banks 
  (Paratypes, 
  U.S.N.M.) 
  ; 
  also 
  same 
  locality, 
  Feb., 
  March, 
  

   June, 
  Sept., 
  Dec, 
  A. 
  H. 
  Manee 
  (Davis 
  Coll. 
  Cornell 
  Univ., 
  Bueno, 
  

   Drake, 
  Barber, 
  Parshley) 
  ; 
  South 
  Dakota 
  (Parshley) 
  ; 
  Oxbow, 
  

   Saskatchewan, 
  April 
  14, 
  21, 
  22, 
  1907, 
  F. 
  Knab 
  (U.S.N.M.). 
  

  

  Rarely 
  a 
  female 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  has 
  a 
  distinct 
  notch 
  in 
  

   posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  apical 
  tergite. 
  The 
  color 
  varies 
  somewhat 
  and 
  

   the 
  varietal 
  name 
  brunnea 
  Banks 
  14 
  was 
  applied 
  to 
  specimens 
  with 
  

   pale 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  connexivum 
  and 
  pale 
  irrorations 
  on 
  the 
  venter; 
  

   the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  dorsum 
  suggests 
  bronzed 
  leather. 
  Type 
  examined 
  

   at 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  Comparative 
  Zoology. 
  The 
  proportion 
  of 
  winged 
  

   specimens 
  in 
  the 
  whole 
  material 
  is 
  small. 
  

  

  METAPTERUS 
  NEGLECTUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  A 
  larger 
  and 
  much 
  paler 
  species 
  than 
  uhleri, 
  the 
  general 
  color 
  

   being 
  yellowish 
  brown. 
  Male 
  hypopygium 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  uMeri, 
  

   differing 
  in 
  having 
  the 
  apical 
  spine 
  without 
  a 
  conspicuously 
  recurved 
  

   tip 
  (fig. 
  152, 
  153). 
  Female 
  differing 
  as 
  stated 
  in 
  the 
  key, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   tergite 
  as 
  in 
  figure 
  154. 
  

  

  Length, 
  11-12 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Male, 
  Lakehurst, 
  N. 
  J., 
  May 
  13, 
  1917, 
  under 
  a 
  pile 
  

   of 
  old 
  bricks, 
  W. 
  T. 
  Davis 
  (Davis). 
  Allotype, 
  Winchester, 
  Mass., 
  

   L. 
  L. 
  Thaxter 
  (U.S.N.M.). 
  Paratypes: 
  male, 
  Lakehurst, 
  N. 
  J., 
  

   March 
  30, 
  1907, 
  H. 
  G. 
  Barber 
  (Barber) 
  ; 
  White 
  Plains, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  one 
  

   male, 
  August 
  31, 
  1909; 
  one 
  male, 
  March, 
  1919, 
  under 
  a 
  stone; 
  one 
  

   male, 
  April 
  4, 
  1909; 
  one 
  male, 
  April 
  9, 
  1911; 
  one 
  female, 
  April 
  30, 
  

   1911; 
  Staten 
  Island, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  March 
  29, 
  1903 
  (Bueno). 
  

  

  A 
  llotype.— 
  Female, 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  26739, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  METAPTERUS 
  BANKSII 
  (Baker). 
  

  

  Barce 
  banksii 
  Baker, 
  C. 
  F. 
  California 
  Emesidae, 
  Pomona 
  Coll. 
  Journ. 
  Ent. 
  

   2, 
  No. 
  2, 
  May, 
  1910, 
  p. 
  227 
  [Claremont, 
  Calif.]. 
  

  

  Similar 
  in 
  color 
  to 
  fratemus, 
  differing 
  as 
  stated 
  in 
  ke} 
  7 
  . 
  The 
  fore 
  

   tibia 
  of 
  male 
  is 
  about 
  three-sevenths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  fore 
  femur 
  while 
  in 
  

   the 
  preceding 
  two 
  species 
  it 
  is 
  but 
  little 
  over 
  one-third 
  as 
  long. 
  The 
  

   male 
  hypopygium 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  less 
  keeled 
  on 
  apical 
  half 
  than 
  in 
  

   fratcrnus 
  and 
  has 
  the 
  small 
  process 
  at 
  apex 
  above 
  larger, 
  while 
  from 
  

   the 
  rear 
  view 
  it 
  is 
  much 
  less 
  tapered 
  below 
  (fig. 
  155) 
  . 
  Both 
  sexes 
  have 
  

   the 
  process 
  between 
  bases 
  of 
  antennae 
  moderately 
  well 
  developed. 
  

  

  Length, 
  9-12 
  mm. 
  

  

  Data 
  for 
  specimens 
  examined: 
  

  

  Palm 
  Springs, 
  Calif., 
  February 
  17; 
  California, 
  no 
  other 
  data, 
  

   Uhler 
  Coll. 
  (U.S.N.M.); 
  San 
  Mateo 
  County, 
  Calif. 
  (Cornell 
  

   Univ.) 
  ; 
  Pasadena, 
  Calif., 
  June 
  17, 
  1908 
  (Ball). 
  

  

  14 
  Emesidae, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  47. 
  

  

  