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Figure 81. — Localities for Auplopus adjunctus. 



4. Auplopus adjunctus (Banks) 



Pseudagenia meHipes var. adjuncta Banks, 1911, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 13, p. 238; 1912, Journ. New York Ent. Soc. vol. 19, p. 233, ( 9 ]. Lectotype: 

 ?, Fedor, Lee County, Tex., June 21, 1909, Birkmann (Cambridge). 



Pseudagenia marionae Brimley, 1928, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, vol. 43, 

 p. 202. Type: cf, Raleigh, N. C. (Raleigh). 



Male: Forewing 5 to 6.5 mm. long; clypeus truncate apically, its 

 apical edge a little thickened mediallj^; mandible evenly curved; 

 second segment of flagellum about 3.3 as long as wide, the penultimate 

 segment about 2.4 as long as wide; mesopleuron with dense fine 

 subadjacent punctures, a little shining, its pubescence rather short. 



Black. Face, lower lateral corner of frons, clypeus, mandible ex- 

 cept apex and sometimes the base, hind margin and lower corner of 

 pronotum, apical part of the fore coxa in front, and large spot on 

 seventh tergite, white; apex of mandible ferruginous; palpi and under 

 side of scape pale fulvous; flagellum somewhat tinged with fulvous 

 below; legs, tegula, first abdominal segment, second abdominal seg- 

 ment except for a subapical tergal band, and much of third abdominal 

 segment, rufous; wings subhyaline or faintly infuscate; middle and 

 hind tarsi fuscous apically. 



Female: Forewing 7.5 to 9.0 mm. long; clothing hairs of frons 

 short and orange, arising from distinctly separated punctures on a 

 rather smooth but mat background; apical margin of clypeus broadly 

 angled to a rounded median point; second flagellar segment about 

 6.0 as long as wide; groove of pronotum w^ith fine, weak, oblique 

 wrinkles; pygidial area polished, without evident punctures. 



Black, without iridescence. Apical part of mandible rufous; palpi 

 pale brown, darker basally, underside of flagellum tinged with fulvous 

 apically; tegula reddish brown; legs fulvous, the last tarsal segment 

 brown; wings faintly to rather strongly infuscate. 



