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A NEW SPECIES OF EMESIDzE FROM VERMONT. 



By Nathan Banks, 

 East Falls Church, Virginia. 



Ploiariodes hirtipes sp. nov. 



Pale grayish yellow; body barely marked; a faint V-mark back of antennae, a 

 dark dot each side at base of beak, and two each side on second joint of beak; mar- 

 gin of pronotum whitish; antennae pale, about nine dark bands on second joint, 

 and six on the third joint, beyond dark; legs pale, femur I with a broad, dark band 

 before (but not reaching) tip, and two smaller bands before it, tibia I with a sub- 

 basal and an apical dark spot, other femora with about three dark bands before the 

 middle, one beyond middle, and one before tip, tibiae with about eight dark bands. 

 Fore-wings with two costal dark spots, and three near tip separated by two white 

 spots, elsewhere mottled with brown, more distinctly near tip; hind wings with 

 dark cloud at tip (other specimens will probably be more heavily marked). The 

 antennae and legs with long, dense, whitish, erect hairs, three or four times as long 

 as width of joint; femur I a trifle longer than head plus pronotum; pronotum not 

 tuberculate behind; scutelli each with a slightly sloping white spine. Length 

 7 mm. * 



A female from Brattleboro, Vt., 15 July, 1908 (C. W. Johnson). 

 Type in Boston Society of Natural History. 



MELANET.ERIUS INFERNALIS FALL, 1907. 

 Terapus mnizechi Mars. 1862. 

 (12th paper on Hisferidcp). 



Dr. W. M. Wheeler had the kindness to send me one of the 

 examples of Melanetoerius infernaUs Fall, taken by him on Dec. 

 1st 1910, near Pasadena in nests of the ant Pheidole hyatti Emery. 

 The figure given by Wheeler in Psyche, XVIII, 3, p. 113 is good, 

 as Mr. H. C. Fall has written to me. 



This beetle, and also most of the details of the figure agree 

 exactly with the description and the figures given by Marseul 

 of Terapus mnizechi of Mexico (Supplement d la Monographic 

 des Histerides, Ann. Soc. Ent. France p. 682; Plate X (7), genre 

 XLV, fig. 1, a-c). 



H. BiCKHARDT. 



Cassel, Germany, May 1st, 1912. 



