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veuter destitute of short, stout spines, claws and pulvilli of 

 female minute, the pulvilli scarcely one fifth as long as the last 

 tarsal joint; palpi and entire insect except the wings and calyp- 

 teres, black; length, 4 mm. Los Angeles County, Cal. From 

 the type specimen. (Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 57; 

 June, 1805.) (cnea Coq. 



6. Palpi yellow, scutelluni bearing three pairs of long marginal and 



sometimes a short apical pair of macroch<Tta', usually a discal 



pair on the second and tliird abdominal segments 7. 



Palpi black 8. 



7. Third segment of abdomen pollinose on at least the basal two-thirds. 

 ^ the pollen yellowish, abdomen subOp;Hiue;.'length, 4 to4) mni. 



X, ' Franconia and White Mountains, New Hampshire; Beverly, 

 0^^- Mass.; Maryland; District of Columbia; (ieorgia; Texas; Mis- 

 souri; northern Illinois; Colorado; and Sonoma County, Cal. 

 From the type specimen. (Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, 

 p. 57; June, 1895. Anisia nigroclnctaf v.d.W., Brauer and 



Bergenstamm in Utt.) variabilis Coq. 



Third segment at most pollinose on the basal third, the pollen white, 

 abdomen snbshining^^engtn, I'to 9 mm. White Mountains, Xew 

 Hampshire; northern Illinois; District of Columbia; Virginia; 

 North Carolina; Tifton, Ga. ; Ocean Springs, Miss.; Florida and 

 Jamaica, West Indies. (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XIX, p. 

 ^ dr^iiZCi^ • 131 ; June, 1892 : Tacliinophiito. r:P,seu(lomyothyria indecisa Town- 

 send, loc cit., p. 133. Vibrissina sp., Brauer and Bergenstamm 

 in Utt. ) Jioridensis Town. 



8. Second and third segments of abdomen destitute of discal macro- 



chti'ta', gray pollinose on bases of last three segments, third 

 joint of antenuic nearly three times as long as the second. . .10. 

 Second and third segments bearing discal as well as marginal macro- 

 cha'tte, scutellum bearing three pairs of long marginal macro- 

 cha'tte and sometimes a very short apical pair 9. 



9. Abdomen gray i)ollinose on bases of last three segments, front in the 



male three-fifths, in the female from three-fifths to three-fourths, 

 ] /^y*': as wide as either eye; calypteres white, sometimes tinged witli 

 \i5 '^ yellow on the margin ; length, 4 to mm. Wliite Mountains and 

 .^lA"* Franconia, X. H.; Beverly and Xew Bedford, Mass.; District of 

 Columbia; Georgia; Illinois; Tucson, Ariz.; Palm Springs and 

 Los Angeles Co., Cal., and Allende, Mexico. From the type 

 specimens. (Journal X. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 57 ; June, 1895. 

 Ilypostcna puniUa^ Coquillett, loc. cit., p. 58.) harhata Coq. 



'This is the female of harhata; in the description of the latter, through an error in 

 the printing, the male sign ( <? ) -was used in the place of the female ( 9 ), and vice versa. 

 The two feujules from California under harhata do not have discal macrochii^ta^ on 

 the second a?id third segments of the abdomen, as erroneously stated in the descrip- 

 tion; they belong to ranr/nvcff/j);. Town. _^ ■ - 1 









