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clothed with long, erect, whitish hairs, which extend along middle 

 of body to middle of second abdominal segment; prosternal lobe 

 broad, feebly declivous, broadly rounded in front and with a broad, 

 deep, arcuate emargination at the middle; prosternal process rather 

 broad, the sides nearly parallel to behind the coxal cavities, then ob- 

 liquely rounded to the apex. Posterior coxae with the posterior 

 margin nearly transversely truncate or feebly sinuate, and the exte- 

 rior angle rectangular. Tibiae slender, nearly straight, and the 

 anterior and middle pairs armed with a short tooth on inner mar- 

 gin at apex. Posterior tarsi distinctly shorter than tibiae, and the 

 first joint as long as the following three joints united. Tarsal claws 

 similar on all feet, cleft near the middle, the outer tooth long and 

 acute, the inner tooth broad, about one-half as long as outer one, 

 and not turned inward. 



Length, 4.75 mm. ; width, 1.2 mm. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the front of head more 

 cupreous, and not so densely punctate, granulose or pubescent; 

 prosternum more coarsely granulose, without long, erect pubescence, 

 and the prosternal lobe not so deeply emarginate at middle; first 

 two abdominal segments convex at middle, and without long pubes- 

 cence, and the tibiae unarmed at apex. 



Redescribed from the male type in the collection of J. N. Knull. 



Type locality. — Hummelstown, Pa. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Material examined : 



Connecticut: Canaan, July 26, 1924 (C. A. Frost). Lyme, reared (W. S. 

 Fisher). North Branford, June 2, 1921 (M. P. Zappe). New Haven, June 

 18, 1921 (B. H. Walden). Short Beach, July 14, 1904 (P. L. Butrich). 

 Branford, July 3, 1905 (H. W. Winkley). 



District of Columbia : Rock Creek Park. May 28, 1922 (J. R. Malloch). Wash- 

 ington, June 18 (Hubbard and Schwarz). 



Illinois: Willow Springs, June 5, 1914; Riverside, June 10, 1913 (E. Liljeblad). 

 Edgebrook, June 28, 1914 (Selinger). Galesburg, July 9, 1892; Lilly, June 

 11, 1914; La Grange ( ). 



Kansas: Douglas County; Clark County, May (F. H. Snow). Salina ( ). 



Maryland: Hagerstown. May 22. 1913 ( ). Plummer Island, June 15, 1905 



(D. H. demons). Great Falls, May 23, 1915 (W. L. McAtee). 



Michigan: Agriculture College, July 5 (L. G. Gentner). 



Missouri: Central part, June, July ( ). 



New Hampshire: Hampton, June 18, 1901 (S. A. Shaw). 



New York: Long Island ( ). Albany, June 13, 1903 ( ). 



Ohio: Columbus, June-July (J. N. Knull). 



Pennsylvania: Hummelstown, reared June- July (J. N. Knull and H. B. Kirk). 



South Carolina: Clemson College, May 22, 1926 (J. O. Pepper). Caesar Head, 

 June 29, 1926 (F. Sherman). 



South Dakota: No definite locality (F. M. Hull). 



