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Figures 77, 78. — Localities: 77 (left), Triclistus chosis, 78; right, 2™. podagricus. 



3.5 as long as wide; second segment of hind tarsus about 2.4 as long as 

 wide; first tergite about 1.2 as long as wide, its dorsal carinae extending 

 about 0.55 its length; hairs on abdominal tergites rather long, present 

 on the following areas : apical lateral part of first tergite, second tergite 

 except for median 0.3, third and fourth tergites except for large median 

 area which is narrow basally and broad apically, and fifth tergite later- 

 ally; apical notch in subgenital plate about 0.45 as deep as wide. 



Black. Mandible light brown, blackish basally; palpi stramineous; 

 antenna brown, darker apically and paler basally beneath; tegula pale 

 yellow, tinged with fulvous apically; legs fulvoferruginous. 



Type: 9, Takoma Park, Md., June 20, 1943, H. and M. Townes 

 (Washington, USNM 63632). 



Paratypes: 29, Georgetown, D. C, H. H. Smith (Washington). 9, 

 Washington, D. C, October 1922, E. A. Schwartz (Washington). 9, 

 Bowie, Md., July 26, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, Cabin 

 John, Md., Aug. 4, 1917, Fouts (Washington). 29, Plummers Island, 

 Md., Aug. 8 and 25, 1943, R. H. Beamer (Lawrence). 9, Plummers 

 Island, Md., Sept. 12, 1912, H. S. Barber (Washington). 59, Takoma 

 Park, Md., Aug. 3, 12, 22, and 26, 1943, and Sept. 10, 1943, H. and M. 

 Townes (Townes). 9, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Mass., July 23, 

 1921, Harold Morrison (Washington). 9, reared from Desmiafuneralis, 

 Wakefield, Mass., July 5, 1932 (Washington). 29, Moorestown, 

 N. J., July 23, 1939, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, Elmira, N. Y., 

 Aug. 4, 1937, H. Townes (Townes). 9, Ottawa, Ont., July 26, 1947, 

 W. R. M. Mason (Ottawa). 9, Harrisburg, Pa., June 28, 1908, P. R. 

 Myers (Washington). 9, reared from Sylepta obscuralis, Arlington, 

 Va., June 1921 (Washington). 9, "Pimmit Run," Va., Sept. 6, 1908, 

 F. Knab (Washington). 9, Virginia, August 1939 (Townes). 

 1 . This species occurs in the Carolinian fauna. Adults have been 

 collected from June 20 to September 12. 



