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about 0.6 as great as diameter of coarse punctures; wider segments of 

 flagellum about 2.6 as wide as long; galea elongate, projecting, about 

 0.8 as long as mandible, with very few setae except on the edges; 

 glossa narrow, long, projecting beyond galea; second segment of maxil- 

 lary palpus swollen, a little flattened, in the male about 3.3 as long as 

 wide, in the female about 2.0 as long as wide; punctures on meso- 

 pleurum and metapleurum coarse, those on mesopleurum separated 

 by about 0.7 their diameter, those on metapleurum separated by 

 about 1.5 their diameter; prepectal carina complete; areolet about 

 2.0 as wide as length of second recurrent vein; claws of front and middle 

 tarsi pectinate on their basal 0.3 to 0.4. 



Black. Face except for a median longitudinal mark on facial 

 shield in female, interantennal process, side of frons, spot at side of 

 clypeus in male, under side of scape and often of pedicel in male, usu- 

 ally under side of scape in female, labrum of male, second segment of 

 maxillary palpus, narrow stripe next to upper margin of pronotum, 

 large apicolateral corner of scutellum, postscutellum, spot covering 

 most of hind half of metapleurum, spot at apex of area dentipara, 

 apex of coxae in front, most of hind coxa above, apex of front and 

 middle trochanters, second trochanter of hind leg and all but base of 

 its first trochanter, apex of femora, extreme base of front and middle 

 femora, front and middle tibiae and tarsi except that the tibiae are 

 brownish below and the tarsi brownish apically, basal 0.2 of hind 

 tibia and in male sometimes subbasal blotches on hind tibia, apical 

 0.65 of first tergite, small apicolateral corner of second tergite, apical 

 0.25 of third tergite, apical 0.2 of fourth tergite (narrowed laterally), 

 apical 0.2 of fifth tergite (narrowed laterally), apical 0.1± of sixth 

 tergite (interrupted medially) of male and sometimes of female, and 

 male genitalia, white; palpi except for second segment of maxillary 

 palpus brownish; under side of flagellum tinged with brown; hind 

 tarsus brown; wings strongly infuscate. 



Specimens: cf, southern Illinois, C. Robertson (Washington), d" 

 (type), Illinois (Philadelphia). d\ 9, Jay Co., Ind., Sept. 15, 1923, 

 B. Montgomery (Cambridge). 9, LaFayette, Ind., Sept. 16, 1914 

 (Washington), cf, Douglas Co., Kans., Sept. 29, 1948, R. H. Beamer 

 (Lawrence), cf, Lawrence, Kans., Aug. 31, 1951, A. T. McClay 

 (Townes). 9, Lawrence, Kans., Sept. 28, 1952, G. Heinrich (Hein- 

 rich). cf, Chalmette, La., C. L. Remington (Cambridge). 9, Col- 

 umbia, Mo., Sept. 16, 1939, W. S. Craig (Washington). 29, Ozark 

 Lake, Mo., Sept. 21, 1939, E. C. Van Dyke (San Francisco). & , 

 Agricultural College, Miss., October 1895, H. E. Weed (Corvallis). 

 29, Hattiesburg and near Hattiesburg, Miss., Oct. 6, 1944 and Oct. 

 10, 1943, C. D. Michener (New York). d\ West Point, Nebr., 



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