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with yellow hairs at base of second joint and at apex of third joint. 

 Antennae of female dark brown, those of male paler brown with yellow 

 sheen. 



Thorax grayish white with dark brown median band, excavated in 

 anterior portion, sprinkled with few golden brown scales. Other brown 

 marks on sides of band, posteriorly separated from it by narrow gray- 

 ish stripes. Band sometimes light brown anteriorly mixed with gray, 

 giving thorax mottled appearance. Pleura brown with patches of whit- 

 ish gray scales. Femora have mixed black and yellow scales on upper 

 surface, fewer on posterior side, not collected into spots or bands ; 

 apices yellow, almost wholly yellow beneath. Tibiae black except for 

 slight sprinkling of yellow scales, posterior ones yellow at knee. Tarsi 

 black with well defined white bands at base of each joint in hind feet and 

 narrower bands on first four joints of middle and fore feet. Claws one- 

 toothed on all feet of both sexes. Those of anterior tarsal joint in male 

 stout, one about three-fourths length of other, shorter one with tooth 

 nearer base. Claws of middle tarsal joint, one short with tooth at mid- 

 dle and one very long tooth, sharply curved at basal third, situated in 

 inner angle. Hind pair of claws, also all those of female, of equal length, 

 with median tooth slightly nearer base. Wings hyaline, veins densely 

 covered with broad, mixed black and white scales, with many long nar- 

 row ones on apical third of wing. 



Abdomen black above with few whitish scales intermixed; segments 

 one to six broadly banded with yellowish white at base, segment seven 

 narrowly banded both basally and apically, tending to join at lateral 

 borders, apical segment and genitalia black. On some specimens bands 

 break into black irregularly. Beneath abdomen yellowish. 



HABITS OF THE ADULT 



This species was originally described from California and was first 

 taken in New Jersey May 8, 1903, at Westville, with a lot of canadensis, 

 which were then flying. Later in the season it was taken in a low, 

 swampy woodland near New Brunswick June 28, July 16, and July 28. 

 In 1904 samples were taken in the same woods during the latter part of 

 June and until after the middle of July. They were always associated 

 with canadensis, had approximately the same habits of flight and bit 

 readily. They were not found to be especially vicious, however, and their 

 bite was not more severe than that of the other species. No specimens 

 have ever been taken outside of the woods and they are so rare there, 

 that they cannot be regarded as in any way troublesome. Since larvae 

 have been taken near Paterson, it is perhaps a fair conclusion that the 



