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a few hairs adjacent to pleural carina, these almost in a single row; 

 front spur of middle tibia 0.85 as long as hind spur; second segment 

 of middle tarsus 1.25 as long as wide; second tergite without a longi- 

 tudinal carina just mesad of spiracle, its punctures of moderate size, 

 strong, moderately close, and tending to be elongate. 



Black. Face except for median subdorsal brown spot, lower lateral 

 corner of frons, under side of scape, palpi, apex of front and middle 

 coxae and of all femora, and basal 0.2 of tibiae, light yellow; clypeus 

 dark brown, light brown on its apical margin; mandible light brown, 

 black basally; pedicel and flagellum brown beneath; tegula brown 

 with basal yellow spot; middle and hind basitarsi stramineous, their 

 apical third darker; front and middle legs light brown except as 

 described otherwise; hind coxa blackish brown, its apex stramineous; 

 hind trochanters pale brown; hind femur, tibia, and tarsus dark 

 brown except as described otherwise. 



Type: 9, Mount Pisgah at 4,800 to 5,300 ft,, N. C, June 21, 1940, 

 H. and M. Townes (Washington, USNM 63597). 



10. Chorinaeus emorsus, new species 

 Figure 178,1 



Female: Front wing 3.2 to 3.5 mm. long; face about 0.73 as high 

 as mouth is wide, strongly narrowed above; median 0.6 of clypeal 

 margin strongly up-bowed; mandible distinctive, about 2.5 as long 

 as wide, its upper tooth exceptionally large and lower tooth small, its 

 outer face with numerous, moderately small punctures; flagellum with 

 about 22 segments; metapleurum with about 7 hairs posterodorsally; 

 front spur of middle tibia about 0.89 as long as hind spur; second seg- 

 ment of middle tarsus about 1.7 as long as wide; second tergite with- 

 out a longitudinal carina just mesad of spiracle, with fine, irregular, 

 longitudinal wrinkling interspersed with indistinct punctures. 



Black. Face yellow except for a median brown area that is expanded 

 dorsally, its interantennal process yellow; mandible and cheek next 

 to mandible brownish stramineous; palpi yellow; antenna brown, 

 darker above; tegula light brown with a basal yellow area; front and 

 middle legs stramineous, their coxae brown except at apex and the 

 apex of their femora and base of tibiae yellowish; hind coxa blackish; 

 hind legs beyond coxa light ferruginous brown, the extreme apex of 

 femur and basal 0.2 of tibia yellow; femur subapicalfy, tibia dorsally, 

 and tarsi brown. 



Type: 9, Pinkham Notch, N. IT., Aug. 23, 1951, H., M., and D. 

 Townes (Washington, USNM 63598). 



Paratypes: 9, Mount Washington, N. EL, A. T. Slosson (New 

 York). 9, Halifax, N. S., Sept. 5, 1950, J. McDunnough (Ottawa). 



