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level of antenna! socket, submedian pair of stripes on face of female 

 extending downward from antenna! sockets, palpi, tegula, hind corner 

 of pronotum, and narrow mark on upper margin of pronotum extend- 

 ing forward from its hind corner part way to notaulus, white or whitish ; 

 clypeus dark brown; antenna stramineous or light brown beneath, 

 especially toward base, but its scape sometimes not pale beneath; meso- 

 sternum behind prepectus, mesopleurum behind prepectus except for 

 about its upper third, and metapleurum fulvous; sometimes scutellum, 

 part of prepectus, and stains on mesoscutum more or less fulvous; 

 front coxa of female, front and middle coxae of male, and trochanters 

 whitish, the first trochanter of hind leg of female mostly pale fulvous ; 

 middle coxa of female pale fulvous; hind coxa of female fulvous; 

 hind femur fulvous with an apical infuscation, its extreme apex pale 

 brown; hind tibia white, its apical 0.3 and a subbasal band infuscate; 

 hind tarsus white, the apex of each segment fuscous; middle femur, 

 tibia, and tarsus repeating color pattern of hind leg but the infusca- 

 tions much paler; front femur, tibia, and tarsus very pale fulvous, 

 with a faint repetition of the color pattern of the hind leg. 



Specimens: 9, Springfield, Mass., Allen (Cambridge). 9, Ottawa 

 Co., Mich., Aug. 17, 1945, R. R. Dreisbach (Dreisbach). 9, Lake 

 City, Minn., July 7, 1927, C. E. Mickel (St. Paul). <?, Otsego Lake, 

 N. Y., June 28, 1935, H. Townes (Townes). 9, Mount Pisgah at 

 4,600 ft,, N. C, Sept. 2, 1950, H. and D. Townes (Townes). <?, 

 Cleveland, Ohio, May 19, 1934, F. D. De Gant (Columbus). 9 

 (type), Texas, Belfrage (Washington). 9, on window of King Hall, 

 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., July 18, 1955, L. K. Smith 

 (Madison). 



This species is widespread in eastern United States. Except 

 possibly for the type, all specimens have been taken in areas of 

 deciduous forests in the Transition zone. 



4. Clistopyga alutaria, new species 



Front wing of male 4.2 mm. long, of female 3.8 to 4.8 mm. long; 

 body rather slender; temple of male with a faint transverse swelling 

 just behind lower corner of eye; temple moderately convex, in profile 

 about 0.7 as long as eye; epomia long; metapleurum entirely mat, 

 covered with small punctures that are separated by about 2.5 their 

 diameter; submetapleura! carina complete; propodeum moderately 

 long, strongly convex, completely mat, its punctures fine and incon- 

 spicuous, without median longitudinal carinae, or with weak ones 

 extending about 0.3 its length; hind tibia of female about 1.05 as 

 as long as hind femur: nervellus broken near its lower 0.3, the discoi- 

 della weak; first tergite 1.3 as long as wide in male, about 1.2 as long 

 as wide in female, its median longitudinal carina sharp on its basal 



