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Paratypes (28 c?', 459): From California (Claremont, Davis, 

 Geyserville, Laguna Beach, La Jolla, Redwood City, and Tracy); 

 Louisiana (Opelousas) ; North Carolina (Raleigh) ; Oregon (Corvallis, 

 Shaniko, 10 miles south of The Dalles, and Summer Lake in Lake 

 County); Texas (Brazos County, Fedor, and Willis); Utah (Skull 

 Valley); Virginia; Wyoming (Weston County); and Mexico (Teoti- 

 huacdn in "Pjt." and 15 km. east of Sombrerete in Zacatecas). 



Collection dates are rather evenly distributed from June 15 to Sept. 

 15, except that eight of the nine Texas collections are from May 7 to 

 June 6. Two females were taken at Raleigh, N. C, at extrafloral 

 nectaries of Cassia nictitans. 



This species is known from Oregon, California, Wyoming, Utah, 

 the Gulf and South Atlantic States, and Mexico. 



Figure 157. — Localities for Ceropales femoralis. 



10. Ceropales femoralis Cresson 



Ceropales femoralis Cresson, 1869, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, p. 378, 



"9"=zo^. Type: d', Orizaba, Mexico (Philadelphia). 

 Ceropales foxii, Rohwer, 1916, Canadian Ent., vol. 48, p. 369, cf. Type: <f, 



East Falls Church, Va. (Washington). 



Forewing 3.0 to 5.5 mm. long; second flagellar segment about 1.2 as 

 long as wide; frons with dense, sharp, moderately small punctures and 

 scattered, inconspicuous, larger punctures whose diameters are about 

 1.2 to 1.5 as great as those of the smaller punctures; longer hairs on 

 frons about 1.3 as long as a male ocellus or 1.5 as long as a female 

 ocellus; punctures on upper half of mesopleuron rather large and deep, 

 separated by about 1.3 their diameter; punctures on lower half of 

 mesopleuron medium sized, deep, separated by about 3 to 4 times their 

 diameter; male subgenital plate ligulate, narrowed to a rounded apex, 

 its sides upcurved; female subgenital plate triangular in side view, 

 shorter than in C. pacifica and a little longer than in O. hatoda. 



