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brown, yellow at base; first trochanters blackish, often tinged with 

 fulvous; legs beyond first trochanters fulvous, the tibiae basally and 

 the tarsi a little paler; apex of hind tibia a little infuscate; apex of first 

 three segments of hind tarsus light brown; fourth and fifth segments 

 of hind tarsus light brown, a little paler basally. 



American specimens differ on the average from European specimens 

 in having the markings on the hind tibia and tarsi a little more con- 

 trasting and in having fewer (4 to 12) discal hairs on the metapleurum. 



Specimens: 9, Cheboygan Co., Mich., Aug. 4, 1938, Eugene Kenaga 

 (Washington), tf 1 , Baddeck, N. S., July 21, 1936, T. N. Freeman 

 (Townes). 9, Baddeck, N. S., July 29, 1936, J. McDunnough 

 (Townes). cf, Sudbury, Ont., 1888 (Ottawa). 4cf, from Germany 

 and Belgium (Townes). 



Figure 115. — Localities 

 Exochus gravipes. 



for 



This species is known in America from four specimens from Nova 

 Scotia, Ontario, and Michigan. It is common and widely distributed 

 in Europe. 



V. PULLATUS GROUP 



Front wing 3.4 to 5.8 mm. long; head rather deep, its temple of 

 moderate length ; face moderately narrow and moderately convex, or in 

 some females rather strongly protuberant above; interantennal process 

 moderate, its point approximately a right angle; frons somewhat 

 swollen centrally, a little impressed above each antennal socket; cheek 

 about 0.85 to 1.2 as long as basal width of mandible; occipital carina 

 entirely absent or present laterally as a fine weak carina; median half 

 of clypeal margin truncate; head black, a spot at top of eye, often more 

 or less of lower part of lateral margin of frons, and more or less of face, 

 clypeus, and lower part of temple whitish or yellow; notaulus a short 

 strong groove or sometimes reduced to a subcircular pit on margin of 

 mesoscutum; metapleurum sometimes with a few discal hairs; costula 



