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species of tlie genus); subgenital plate not quite so concave as in 

 related species, its apex distinctly notched. 



Black. Inner orbit with a yellowish stripe; wings orange, their 

 extreme bases, their apical margins, and the hind margin of the hind 

 wing fuscous. 



Female: Fore wing 9 to 18 mm. long; temple about 1.1 as long as 

 the eye (about 0.7 as long as the eye in all other species except C. 

 deceptus)', second flagellar segment about 3.0 as long as wide; meso- 

 pleuron below with a median low round tubercle (this is absent or 

 indistinct in the other members of the genus) ; propodeum smooth or 

 sometimes laterally with fine weak transverse wrinkles; larger punc- 

 tures on sternites relatively close, many of them separated by only 

 al)out 1 .7 their diameter. 



Black. Wings orange, their extreme bases, their apical margins, 

 and the hind margin of the hind wing fuscous. 



Figure 7. — Localities for Chirodamus ketligbroditi. 



Specimens: 9, Bastrop County, Tex., June 9, 1935, J. E. Gillaspy 

 (College Station, Tex.). 4cf, Bexar County, Tex., Nov. 16, 1930, 

 H. B. Parks (Parks and Townes). 9, Bexar County, Tex., 1931, 

 H. B. Parks (College Station, Tex.). 9, Cypress Mills, Tex. (Wash- 

 ington). 9, Fedor, Tex., May 1 (Cambridge), cf, 9, Lee County, 

 Tex., Oct. and Oct. 1910 (Cambridge). 9, Longpoint, Tex. (Cam- 

 bridge). 9, Noack, Williamson County, Tex., May 29, 1944, 

 J. E Gillaspy (Townes). c?, Shiloh, Tex., Oct. 8, 1935, J. E. 

 Gillaspy (College Station, Tex.). 9, Victoria, Tex., May 1905, A. 

 McLaughlin (Washington). 9, Victoria, Tex., Nov. 8, 1904, J. C. 

 Crawford (Washington). 9, Victoria, Tex., Dec. 19, 1910, J. D. 

 Mitchell (Washington). cT, 39, Texas, Belfrage (Washington), 

 cf, Texas (Cambridge). 9, June 24, 1931 (Parks). 9, no data 

 (Washington) . 



This species is restricted to Texas. 



