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3. Zaglyptus pictilis, new species 



Figures 322,h; 369 



Front wing of male 3.3 to 3.8 mm. long, of female 4.0 to 4.7 mm. 

 long; occiput weakly impressed medially so that the head appears to 

 be broadly, wealdy notched behind; male flagellum simple, not notched 

 between the sixth and seventh and the seventh and eighth segments; 

 mesoscutum with a few hairs in front but almost none elsewhere; 

 carina between metasternum and metapleurum present only anteriorly 

 as a very short ridge; abdomen of male with rather dense coarse 

 punctures except on the apical 0.2 of the tergites; abdomen of female 

 also with dense punctures but the punctures almost absent from the 

 apical tergites and from the paired median swellings of the second to 

 fifth tergites. 



Head white, the occiput brownish fulvous, front and vertex except 

 near eyes brownish fulvous, and sometimes the face with a narrow 

 median pale fulvous stripe; clypeus white to fulvous; mouth parts 

 white, the apical 0.4 of mandible black; antenna dark brown, whitish 

 basally below, light brown apically; thorax fulvous, the propleurum 

 mostly white and propodeum with a narrow apical black margin; 

 tegula of male pale fulvous, of female white; front leg white, the femur 

 with a light fuscous posterodorsal stripe and often also with a faint 

 anterodorsal fuscous stripe; middle leg white, the femur and first 

 trochanter fuscous at base above, the femur with a broad postero- 

 dorsal and narrow weak anterodorsal fuscous stripe, the tibia fuscous 

 on extreme apex, the first three tarsal segments fuscous on apex, and 

 apical half of last tarsal segment brownish; hind leg white, its coxa 

 with a large anteroventral blackish spot, its first trochanter and femur 

 fuscous at base, its femur with anterodorsal and posterodorsal fuscous 

 stripes and extreme apex fuscous, its tibia with subbasal anterodorsal 

 and posterodorsal fuscous spots and apical 0.15± fuscous, and its 

 tarsus with the first three segments at apex and apical half of last 

 segment fuscous; abdomen black, broadly white laterally, the white 

 extending mesad around base and apex of median swellings of each 

 tergite. 



Type: 9, Tarpon Springs, Fla., Mar. 20, 1950, H. K. Townes 

 (Washington, USNM 63695). 



Paratypes: 9, Langdale, Chambers Co., Ala., H. H. Smith (Wash- 

 ington). 9, Savannah, Ga., Mar. 17, 1950, H. K. Townes (Townes). 

 9, Alachua Co., Fla., Apr. 10, 1955, H. V. Weems, Jr. (Washington). 

 9, Orange Co., Fla., May 14, 1927, Florida Fruit Fly Trap Survey 

 (Washington). 29, Paradise Key, Fla., Apr. 7 and 12, 1951, H. and M. 

 Townes (Townes). 2d 1 , 29, Tarpon Springs, Fla., Mar. 19 and 20, 

 1950, H. K. Townes (Townes). 9, on plane from Havana, Cuba, 

 Jan. 24, 1952 (Washington). 



