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upper 0.25 ± ; front spur of middle tibia about 0.80 as long as hind 

 spur; second segment of middle tarsus about 1.3 as long as wide; 

 second tergite with a weak longitudinal carina just mesad of spiracle 

 in its basal half; punctures on second tergite of medium size, strong, 

 close, and tending to group into longitudinal rows; apex of penis as 

 in Chorinaeus funebris , without setae. 



Black. Male face, clypeus, cheeks, mouth parts, small spot on under 

 side of scape and of pedicel, and front and middle coxae and tro- 

 chanters, pale yellow; female face, clypeus, and mandible brown, the 

 face with a narrow line next eye and margin of interantennal process 

 yellowish; female palpi yellow; under side of flagellum brownish; 

 tegula, extreme apex of femora, and basal 0.2 of tibiae, yellowish; apex 

 of hind femur, hind tibia except on basal 0.2, and hind tarsus more or 

 less weakly infuscate; legs fulvous except as described otherwise. 



Type: 9, Slide Mt. at 2,800 to 4,000 ft., N. Y., Aug. 25, 1935, H. 

 and C. Townes (Washington, USNM 63596). 



Paratypes: cf, 9, same data as type (Townes). 9, Franconia, 

 N. H., A. T. Slosson (New York), d", 29, Pinkham Notch, N. H., 

 Aug. 24, 1951, H., M., and D. Townes (Townes). 



This species has been taken only in spruce woods in the northeastern 

 States, late in August. 



9. Chorinaeus Iabiosus, new species 



Figure I78,k 



Female type: Front wing 3.2 mm. long; face 0.59 as high as mouth 

 is wide; clypeal margin approximately straight, even to the lateral 

 corners; mandible 2.7 as long as wide, its upper tooth much larger 

 than lower tooth, its outer face with some rather small punctures; 

 flagellum missing beyond the fourteenth segment; metapleurum with 



7 M J 





Figures 14—16. — Localities: 14 (left), Chorinaeus recurvus; 15 (center), C. Iabiosus; 16 



(right), C. emorsus. 



