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the thoracic sutures; ventral segments largely; and tips of geni- 

 talia. 



Fore wings milky hyaline, veins thick ; veins near apical margin and 

 especially those bounding marginal cells, dark and bordered by nar- 

 row brownish clouds. 



Male forceps almost boot-shaped in profile, the "toe" directed pos- 

 teriorly. Whole genitalia of about the same shape as in A. picta 

 Zett. 



Type male and allotype (in my collection) from Plummers 

 Island, Maryland, May i, 1914, W. L. McAtee. Paratypes 

 include specimens from Plimimers Island, April 23, 1916, L. 

 O. Jackson; Maryland near Plummers Island, April 28, 191 5; 

 May 9, 1913; May 18, 1913, W. L. McAtee, and Great Falls, 

 Maryland, May 6, H. S. Barber. Five specimens with the last 

 data are in the National Museum Collection. 



My specimens were obtained by sweeping low vegetation, 

 the particular food plant unfortunately not being determined. 



A. picta Zetterstedt. — Specimens labelled Washington, D. C, are 

 dated from May ig to October 15, and simply Virginia, from May 

 23 to September 7. Other specimens have been taken at Belts- 

 ville, Maryland, June 15, 1913, Mount Vernon, Virginia, June 6, 

 1915, McAtee; and Dyke, Virginia, May 28, 1915, L. O. Jackson. 

 . Specimens in the National Museum collection bearing the cabinet 

 name A. asteris Riley belong to this species. 



A. veaziei Patch. — Abundant; extreme dates of collection May 11 

 to September 23. A cabinet name A. solidaginis Riley indicates 

 a food plant, though probably not the sole one. The species has 

 been beaten from pine in June. In general appearance this spe- 

 cies and the last seem almost to grade into each other, but the 

 male genitalia are distinct. The form A. vcadci mctr:aria Craw- 

 ford apparently has not been taken about Washington, but I have 

 swept it from salt marshes at Wallops Island, Virginia, (May 



25, 1913)- 



Calophya Loew. 



C. flavida Schwarz. — ^Originally described from District of Colum- 

 bia material. Occurs only upon Rhus glabra where it has been 

 collected from May i to August 4. Usually rather scarce. 



C. nigripennis Rile}'. — Abundant on Rhus copallina, May 4 to June 

 29. Mr. E. A. Schwarz says : *"Our eastern species hibernate as 

 full grown larvae or pupae on the stems of their food plants and 

 there is but one generation each year." 



* Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 6, 1904, p. 240. 



