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banded, the femur I black beneath, with five long spines and many small ones; there 
is a median spine behind on the head, and a short one at each anterior corner of the 
posterior part of head; the antenne are without hairs; the legs show a dark pre- 
apical band om femora, and a sub-basal one on tibize. The abdomen is nearly black, 
and there is no trace of wings; the upper edge of the last segment of the male has three 
little conical tubercles in a transverse row, and the tip has a short cylindrical tube; 
a female, with swollen abdomen, has a median tubercle in the middle of each dorsal 
segment, that on the third segment being the largest. Length 7 mm. 
LUTEVA. 
Dohrn, Linn. Ent. XIV, 213, 1860. 
Luteva arizonensis n. sp. 
Pale brownish; antennee brown, second joint with four narrow yellowish wings, 
two on the third joint, both joints with short hairs. Femur I mostly brown, apex 
pale, tibia I with pale band at base and before the middle; frontal slope of mesono- 
tum pale, rest dark brown; abdomen pale brown, legs brown, femora with five pale 
bands and the apex pale; tibise with three pale bands; wings brownish, the costal 
margin yellowish. Coxa I much longer than prothorax, femur with many short and 
very fine spines, tibia about as long as femur, and the tarsus reaching over the 
trochanter; eyes prominent; prothorax constricted behind, in front with a tubercle at 
each corner; scutellum with a long erect spine at base, and a shorter one at apex; 
wings extending over the tip of the abdomen. 
Length 10 mm. 
From Palmerlee, Arizona, August (Biederman). 
PLOTARIODES. 
White, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) VII, 58, 1881. 
Our described species has been placed in Cerascopus, which is a synonym of 
Plovaria. Champion has shown their proper position. 
1. Mesonotum behind with a prominent median tubercle : P. tuberculata. 
Mesonotum without tubercle : ; : : ; ced 
2. Spine at base of scutellum longer than one at apex; Eastern species. 
P. errabunda, 
Spine at base of scutellum shorter than one at apex; Western species. 
P. californica. 
