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scarcely curved, and consequently the second cubital cell is narrowed 

 but little on the radial vein. Furthermore this species is much 

 smaller and more slender and the pattern of its maculations is en- 

 tirely different. It is my conviction that it was a male of this species 

 that Patton in Bulletin 5, United States Geological Survey (p. 361), 

 described as the male of speeiosa. 



Described from two males collected by Mr. F. X. Williams, August, 

 1911. 



Habitat — Seward County, Kansas. 



Type and Paratype. — Collection of University of Kansas. 



STICTIELLA VILLOSA Fox. 



Figs. 3, 67, 68. 



Monedula mamillata Fox (not Handlirsch), Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci.,(2)vol. 4,1893, 



p. 10. 

 Monedula villosa Fox, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1895, p. 370, male. 



Male. — Black: Labrum, mandibles except apices, clypeus, scape 

 and basal segments of flagellum below, space between insertion of 

 antennae, spot on either side anterior ocellus, broad anterior orbits, 

 posterior orbits broader below than above, prothorax except median 

 anterior dorsal spot and spot before tubercles, tegulae, short lateral 

 line above tegulae and pair of anterior discal spots on scutum, 

 large lateral spots on scutellum, fascia on metanotum sometimes 

 interrupted medially, spot on sides of median segment, metapleurae, 

 large spot on mesopleurae in most specimens continuous with a longi- 

 tudinal median mesosternal stripe that may be reduced to a median 

 spot in front of middle coxae, broad fasciae on tergites 1-6, the first 

 deeply and somewhat roundly emarginate on anterior middle, second, 

 third, and fourth more widely and successively less deeply emarginate 

 on anterior middle, fifth and sixth slightly waved, but not emargi- 

 nate, apex of ultimate tergite, sternites entirely except black anterior 

 lateral spots on 1 and 2, a narrow median anterior black spot on 3 

 and 4 and a narrow anterior black border on 5 and 6, spot on all 

 coxae below, trochanters apically more or less, femora except stripe 

 above, tibiae, and tarsi, bright greenish yellow. 



Length. — 10-13 mm. 



The clypeus is almost white, faintly tinged with greenish yellow. 

 The fasciae on the first four tergites posterior to the medial emargina- 

 tion are also white — a character that is constant and in degree varies 

 only slightly on the first fascia. The flagellum varies below from 

 greenish yellow basally to testaceous apically. The head, thorax, 

 basal joints of the legs, including the femora, and the base of the 

 abdomen, are densely covered with long, shaggy, white pubescence — 

 a character that distinguishes this species from all others herein listed. 

 The legs show no special modifications and the pulvilh are large and 



