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pharynx can always be removed entire. To the above description 

 1 may add that the apical pair of bristles of the mandibles 

 [fig. 6] are present, though slender, the labrum and hypo- 

 pharynx [fig. 7] as in other species; the labium [fig. 8] has the 

 middle tooth trifid, and there are three setae (instead of one,^ 

 as Riley has it) in each row on the ventral side. The maxillary 

 palpi have a few slender setae and there are also a few on the 

 basal joint [fig. 9]. 



I find eight abdominal segments plus the anal segment in the 

 pupa [fig. 10], and not nine, as Riley has it. Therefore the 

 eight hooks are on each of segments 2, 3 and 4, and not 3, 4 and 

 5. Dorsally, on each of segments 5, 6 and 9 is a transverse row 

 of minute caudad projecting spines; 7 and 8 with slightly larger 

 ones. Ventrally, segments 5, 6 and 7 each with four large 

 spines curved cephalad. In the Cornell University collection 

 are four specimens of adults, two males and two females, ob- 

 tained from Riley. 



S. pictipes Hagen 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Proc. 18S0. 20:305 

 1895 S. 1 n n o X i u m Comstock, Manual for the Study of Insects 



Male. Eyes very broadly contiguous, the large facets dis- 

 tinctly separated from the small by a horizontal line. Face 

 small, as broad opposite the insertion of the antennae as its 

 length, considerably narrowed below; a deep groove on either 

 side running obliquely to the inferior angle, the median part 

 arched; in color grayish pruinose, or in some reflections almost 

 silvery; antennae situated at about the lower fourth in profile; 

 in color black with a slight pruinosity; palpi black, slender, the 

 first three joints somewhat thickened. Metanotum thinly 

 covered with golden pubescence; in color velvet-black, the 

 lateral margins and a spot running upward and inward from 

 each humerus gray and yellowish gray, but somewhat variable 

 in different reflections. Mesad of these gray humeral spots is a 

 pair of small silvery spots. Pleurae, pectus and coxae, gray 

 I)ruinose, showing in some reflections the black ground color. 

 Abdomen with eight visible segments, in color deep velvet-black; 

 under the leaflike margins of the first segments and the sides 

 of the remaining segments gray, or in some reflections silvery 

 pruinose. Legs black or dark brown, the basnl part of the 

 dilated hind metatarsal joint yellow, in some sjM'cimens the ex- 



