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about 1.9 as long as wide, of female about 1.0 as long as wide; median 

 part of pronotum as seen from above with its upper face reduced to a 

 sharp edge ; mesoscutum in dorsal view about 0.70 as long as wide, its 

 punctures mostly adjacent to one another; mesopleurum without an 

 impression in its median posterior corner, but often with an irregular 

 group of impressions near the center of the oblique groove, its lower 

 swollen part with some scattered large punctures (fig. 41, a) ; underside 

 of hind femur with rather dense weak punctures, and with an im- 

 punctate area extending from near its apical 0.35 to the apex ; longer 

 spur of hind tibia about 1.12 as long as the shorter spur and about 0.51 

 as long as the hind basitarsus ; first tergite with moderately fine oblique 

 striation and some indistinct punctures. 



Black or piceous. Mandible and tegular fulvous ; front and middle 

 legs and antenna from dusky fulvous to ruf opiceous. Specimens with 

 more or less extensive ferruginous coloration, as noted under the gen- 

 eric description, are uncommon. 



Specimens. — Many males and females from Connecticut (Candle- 

 wood Lake) ; Georgia (Rabun County) ; Illinois (Zeigler) ; Kansas 

 (Baldwin, Lawrence, and Logan County at 3,322 feet) ; Maryland 

 (Cabin John. College Park, Hyattsville, Plummers Island, and 

 Takoma Park) ; Massachusetts (Forest Hills, Natick, Sagamore, and 

 Wellesley) ; Michigan (Antrim County, Cheboygan County, Con- 

 stantine, Detroit, Douglas Lake, Grand Ledge, Huron County, Lake 

 County, Mason County, and Midland County) ; Minnesota (Lake 

 Minnetonka) ; Mississippi (Lucedale and Pass Christian) ; New 

 Hampshire (Antrim and Concord) : New Jersey (Lakehurst, Mal- 

 aga, Palisades, Riverton, and Wenonah) ; New York (Bohemia, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Eastport, Farmingdale, Flatbush, Huguenot, 

 Ithaca, Millwood, Mount Merino, and Poughkeepsie) ; North Caro- 

 lina (Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Southern Pines, and 

 valley of the Black Mountains) ; Ohio (Cedar Point and Put in 

 Bay) ; Ontario (Marmora) ; Pennsylvania (Buck Hill Falls, Car- 

 lisle Junction, Cedar Run, Gladwyn, Harrisburg, Heckton Mills, 

 Inglenook, Mount Holly Springs, Rockville, and Spring Brook) ; 

 Rhode Island (Kingston and Westerly) ; South Carolina (Ander- 

 son) ; Tennessee (Elkmont and Cades Cove, both in the Great 

 Smoky jSIountains National Park) ; and Virginia (Barcroft, Clifton, 

 Dismal Swamp, East Falls Church, Falls Church, Mount Vernon, 

 and Vienna ) . 



Nearl}^ all dates of capture fall between June 20 and August 15, 

 indicating a single generation a year. Records outside of these dates 

 are : June 5 at Anderson, S. C. ; June 7 at Lucedale, Miss. ; June 13 

 and 15 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Tennessee; 

 June 14 at Pass Christian, Miss.; August 16 at Forest Hills, 



