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Praiiotiiin : lengtli .91 mm., width at base 1.51 mm., anterior angles .71 

 nnn., collar .54 nnn. ; disk moderately convex, lateral margins very slenderly 

 carinate, slightly snlcate at middle, anterior angles distinct, posterior margin 

 sinuate; calli Hat. very slightly impressed and delimited behind by coarse punc- 

 tures, black, seven to nine very fine punctures on tlie disk of each; collar 

 slightly arcuate to the rear, j^ellowish ; disk and pleural area coarsely but not 

 densely punctate : disk olivaceo-testaceous, punctures always, a cloud of vary- 

 ing size each side of the median line and frequently upon the basal angles, 

 fuscous to black; in darkest specimens only the slender basal margin, irregu- 

 larly along median line, more or less between punctures posterior to outer 

 margins of calli. testaceous ; propleura black, lower margins pale, xyphus black, 

 distinctly convex. ScutcIIiini coarsely punctate, nearly flat, black, apex and 

 lateral margins at base ivory-white ; mesoscutum slightly exposed, black. .SVrr- 

 uuui and pleura black, ostiolar peritreme and usually the posterior and ventral 

 margins of the epimera white. 



Hciiiclytra : greatest width 1.74 nnn.. moderately convex, glabrous, shin- 

 ing, coarsely but not densely punctate, punctures black : testaceous, trans- 

 lucent, blackish color appearing first at apex of embolium and corium. then 

 transversely across middle of corium and at base, and more or less broadly 

 each side of the claval commissure; darkest specimens may be black except 

 on base of embolium and clavus and a spot near base of corium. Cniicus nearly 

 triangular, strongly deflexed, translucent on basal half, punctures and the 

 apical half black. Meiiibraiic clear, the veins infuscated, more strongly pos- 

 teriori}' and invading the membrane slightly; two small fuscous points on the 

 apical half, one each side of the middle, these spots being distinctive of the 

 species. 



Legs : coxae and feuK^ra black ; femora shining, the ajiices yellowish brown, 

 sometimes with an indistinct annulns just before, finely j)ale pubescent, a few 

 fine long hairs on the antero-ventral surface ; tibiae yellowish, slightly at knee, 

 narrowly just below, more broadly at near middle, fuscous to blackish, the 

 apices very slightly darkened ; tibiae clothed with fine rather short pale 

 pubescence, the anterior surface of middle and hind pair armed with a row 

 of brownish spines, in length equal to thickness of the segment ; tarsi testa- 

 ceous, apical segment becoming blackish ; claws deeply cleft, piceous ; arolia 

 minute, more slender than any hairs on tarsus, erect and snbparallel, con- 

 verging slightly apically (Fig. 2, E). 



I'cntcr: black, shining, finely pale pubescent; genital claspers distinctive 

 of the species (PI. X). 



?. Length 3.9 mm., width 1.94 mm., very similar to the male but slightly 

 larger and more robust. Segment II, length .94 mm., slender on basal half, 

 enlarged toward apex, the greatest thickness not equal to more than the diameter 

 of segment I; yellowish to brownish, the apical one-fifth and less broadly at 

 base, piceous, very finely pale pubescent. 



Plcsiotypcs: $9 July 18, Springfield. Missouri (H. H. Knight) ; 

 author's collection. Spcciineiis c.vaiiiijicd: ALABAMx\. — 9 June 9. 

 Auburn ( H. H. Knight), tenerel condition. ARIZONA.— 65 9 July 

 8— Aug. 6. Huachuca Mts.. (H. G. Barber). COLORADO.— <?? July 

 28, Grind Junction. CONNECTICUT,—? Mar. 18, ? Aug. 6, New 



