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C. T. Greene; two males, Plummers Island, Md., October 19, 1914, 

 R. C. Shannon, October 6, 1932, G. P. Engelhart; one female, Fluvanna 

 County, Va.; one female, Columbia, S. C, G. F. Atkinson; two females 

 and one male, Harrisburg, Pa., September 20 and October 6, 1923, 

 J. N. Knull; one male. Ocean View, N. J,, October 7, 1927, C. H. 

 Ballou; one male. Seaside Park, N. J., October 24, "Weiss and West; 

 one male, Ithaca, N. Y. ; two males. Blue Hill, Mass., September 20, 

 1891; two males, Hinckley, Ohio, September 26, 1934, F. D. DeGant; 

 one male. Agricultural College, Mich.; one female, Springfield, 111.; 

 September 19, 1935, A, R. Park, Jr.; one female, Shades, Ind., Novem- 

 ber 12, 1927, H. H. Ross; one of each sex reared October 21, 1884, at 

 Washington, D. C, under Bureau of Entomology no. 3355° from 

 Agrotis alternata Grote (this is the record published in Insect Life 

 under Exetastes rvfofemoratus Provancher); one female, Hopkins 

 U. S. no. 2525, Cornelia, Ga., November 28, 1903, "crawling in road; 

 temperatiu-e below freezing", W. F. Fiske; one female, Willard, Mo., 

 November 26; and one female, Itasca State Park, Minn., September 

 1927, S. Garthside. 



48. EXETASTES DICHROUS, new species 



Female. — Length 14 mm, antennae broken. 



Head much more than twice as broad as thick; occiput moderately 

 concave, little broader than vertex; temples nearly fiat, strongly 

 receding, finely, sparsely punctate; frons broadly concave, sparsely 

 punctate; face more densely pimctate, less than twice as broad as 

 long, medially somewhat elevated, distinctl}^ convex at sides below; 

 clypeus distinctly separated at sides, much narrower than face, full}'- 

 three-fourths as long as broad, basal portion strongly convex, espe- 

 cially in middle, apical portion flat, apical margin strongly rounded 

 and medially subtruncate; cheeks in front view concave, their extended 

 angle sharply acute; malar space nearly three-fourths as long as basal 

 width of mandible; distance from base of mandible to junction of 

 occipital and hypostomal carinae three-fourths as long as basal width 

 of mandible; mouth hardly broader than face; mandible much more 

 than half as broad at base as long, little more than half as broad at 

 apex as at base; eyes moderately convex, slightly longer than width of 

 face, subparallel; postocellar and ocellocular lines equal and nearly 

 twice diameter of an ocellus; antennae very slender (tips gone). 



Thorax shining, evenly, not densely punctate, metapleurum partly 

 rugulosely so, mesoscutum and scutellum more sparsely so; notauli 

 absent; scutellum large, strongl;/ convex; propodeum coarsely reticu- 

 late rugose, spiracles very long, curved, situated less than their length 

 above the distinct pleural carinae. 



