... Mesonotum (in mature specimens) always and parts anteriorly 



usually, dusky to black; elytra dusky refer to 



accompanying Fig. 29 of male genitalia for specific determination. 



Cedusa vulgaris FITCH 

 (1851 Cat. Ins. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 47, Poeceloptera) 



This is a common northern species that has been re- 

 corded with a range from Quebec, Ontario, Kansas, Texas, 

 and Georgia as its extremes. 



Blackish-pruinose, having a powdered, somewhat grayish ap- 

 pearance. 



Body blackish-pruinose, abdominal segments sometimes touched 

 with orange. Head black, carinated portions paler; the frontal carinae 



Fig. 29 Male claspers of Southern species of Cedusa (Adapted from 

 McAtee). 1. Cedusa macuktta; 2. maculata, apical sternite of female; 

 3. edentula; 4. gedusa; 5. obscura, two shapes of apical hook shown, 

 and at right a lateral view of clasper; 6. bedusa; 7. vulgaris, lateral 

 view at right; 8. mallochi, lateral view at right; 9. cedusa; 10. kedusa; 

 11. hedusa. 



*For a complete treatise of this genus, see "Notes on Cenchrea West- 

 wood and Cedusa Fowler" by W. L. McAtee, Annals Ent. Soc. 

 Amer., vol. 17, June, 1924, pp. 179-185, PI. 21. 



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