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the apex of segments of hind tarsus often narrowly infuscate, the 

 fifth segment of hind tarsus fuscous with its base paler; upper part 

 of pronotum and all or nearly all of mesothorax except usually for a 

 fuscous area in upper hind part of mesepisternum, fulvoferruginous. 

 Sometimes the metapleurum is also fulvoferruginous, and in the two 

 specimens from Kansas the entire prothorax is fulvoferruginous. 



Type: 9, Mount Holly Springs, Pa., July 7, 1918, R. M. Fouts 

 (Washington, USNM 63704). 



Paratypes: cf , 9, Lawrence, Kans., Aug. 11 and 13, 1896, Hugo 

 Kahl (Washington). 29, Takoma Park, Md., Nov. 2, 1946, H. and 

 M. Townes (Townes). 9, Moorestown, N. J., July 23, 1939, H. and 

 M. Townes (Townes). 9, Farmingdale, N. Y., July 26, 1938, H. and 

 M. Townes (Townes). 9, Hamrick, N. C, Aug. 19, 1950, H., M., and 

 D. Townes (Townes). 9, Mount Pisgah at 5,300 ft., N. C, Sept. 2, 

 1950, H. Townes (Townes). c?, "Raleigh, N. C, June 25, 1951, H. 

 Townes (Townes). c?\ Greenville, S. C, Apr. 20, 1952, G. and L. 

 Townes (Townes). 9, Greenville, S. C, Oct. 11, 1941, H. and M. 

 Townes (Townes). 



This species belongs to the Carolinian fauna. 



Figures 109, 110. — Localities: 109 (left); Polysphincla eboripes; 110 (right), 



P. albipes. 



6. Polysphincta albipes Cresson 



Polysphincla albipes Cresson, 1880, Ann. Rep. U. S. Dep. Agr. for 1879, p. 208; 

 d". Type: d\ Rock Ledge, Fla. (lost). 



Polysphincta albipes Hubbard, 1885, Insects affecting the orange, p. 153. De- 

 scription, biological note, reared from IPlatynota rostrana. 



The type of this species is lost and no specimen has since been 

 collected which fits the description. The original description is as 

 follows: 



"Male. -Sanguineous, smooth and polished; head black; clypeus, 

 mandibles and palpi, white; antennae long, slender, black; tegulae and 



