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Figure 134. — Localities for 

 Exochus armillosus. 



degrees; median swelling of frons strong; hind ocellus separated from 

 eye by about 0.65 its long diameter in male, by about 1.1 its long 

 diameter in female; median half of apical margin of clypeus weakly 

 concave; mandible with sparse, rather coarse punctures, rather broad 

 at base, evenly tapered to a rather broad apex, its lower tooth small ; 

 costula represented by stubs; second lateral area of propodeum with 

 hairs basally, apicolaterally, and often a few in other areas; areola 

 bounded laterally by broad, flat, strong carinae; hind femur about 

 2.15 as long as deep in male, about 1.95 as long as deep in female; 

 front spur of hind tibia about 3.1 as long as wide; punctures on sec- 

 ond abdominal tergite sharp, sparse or absent medially, sublaterally 

 of medium size and separated by about 1.5 their diameter in male, 

 of small size and separated by about 2.3 their diameter in female; 

 male clasper broad, with dense hairs, obliquely narrowed from below 

 to a rather narrowly rounded apex. 



Colored like Exochus rutilatus with the following differences: 

 Whitish mark on pronotum averaging a little longer; apical 0.40 ± 

 of hind tibia blackish; apex of first four segments of hind tarsus 

 blackish; female usually with a median vertical mark on face and 

 spot next to the clypeal fovea brownish. The whitish mark covering 

 the cheek in the female does not extend on to the temple. 



Type: 9, Moorestown, N. J., July 16, 1939, H. and M. Townes 

 (Washington, USNM 63661). 



Paratypes: d", Edmonton, Alta., Aug. 29, 1947, E. H. Strickland 

 (Townes). 9, Petersham, Mass., July 1940, C. T. Brues (Cambridge). 

 d\ 9, Moorestown, N. J., July 26 and August 6, 1939, H. and M. 

 Townes (Townes). c? , 9, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 2 and 23, 1936, 

 H. Townes (Townes). cf, Alberton, Prince Edward Isl., July 17, 

 1940, G. S. Walley (Ottawa), cf, Madison, Wis., July 8, 1929, C. L. 

 Fluke (Madison). 



Our collections were from deciduous woods. 



