328 rj:0('KKIH\(iS nF T/lh' \Art(t\AL Ml ShUM, vouxx. 



lieninrent luterul rariinus Into tlir vertical lateral lobes; nuMliaii rariiiii 

 low but distinct, iHTciineiit, c<|iial; front nuir;;iii faintly convi'x, hiiiil 

 nnir;;in Hubtruncatc, incsiaily <listinctiy but weakly «Mnar;;inatc; pro- 

 zona Hparsely ami shallowly punctate, distinctly lon;;itndinal in botli 

 Hexes, nearly twice as loiij^ as the llnely and densely punctate ineta/.ona. 

 Prosteinal spine larjje, conical, blunt, Hubere<'t: interspace between 

 nies<>sternal lobes twice as lon|; as broad (n»ah') or ipnidrate (fennde). 

 Te;:n»ina abbreviate, about the len;rth of the pro/ona, lateral, lanceo- 

 late, the costal inarj;in <onvex, the inner neaily straij^ht, tally three 

 times as lon^ a8 broad, apically subacuininate, brownish fuscous. I'ore 

 and middle femora considerably tumid In the aiale: hind femora very 

 Hlender, ^reen, the whole ^eniculation blackish tus<-ouH, the under sur- 

 face tiavous; hind tibiae j.^reen, with a basal, feeble, fuscous annulus, 

 the spines black in the apical half, eleven to twelve in number in the 

 outer series. Alxhunen ferruf^ineo fuscous, tiavescent beneath, com- 

 j)ressed, with a distinct median I'arina, the extremity of the male 

 abdomen (considerably clavate, much recurved, the supraanal plate short 

 triaiifjular with subrectan<julate apex, nearly plain* surface, and a 

 not very deep ])ercurrent median sulcus between low ami roumled 

 walls; furciila reduced to a pair of hardly noticeable approximate 

 rounded lobules; cerci lon|^ clepsydral, moderately broad at extreme 

 base, taperiufif regjularly in the basal half so that the nuddle is Irss 

 than half as broad as the base, beyond enlarj;in'; to a subspatulate 

 compressed tip, anjjulate and faintly iu'o<luced at the lower posterior 

 extremity, the whole straijjfht except for a faint incurvinj;. and as Ion;; 

 as the supraanal ])late; subgenital plate small, narrowing; apically so 

 as to be hardly' more than half as wide apically as at base, the lateral 

 and apical margins in the same plane, well rounded as seen from above, 

 entire. 



Length of body, male, 14 mm., female, 10 mm.; antennae, male, 8.r> 

 mm., female, 7.75 mm.; tegraina, male, ii mm., female, 4 ram.; hind 

 femora, nnile, 10 mm., female, 11.1*5 mm. 



Twenty-nine males, 39 females. Denison, Crawford County. Iowa, 

 July 20, J. A. Allen; Dallas County, Iowa, August 8-10, September 

 1-.'J, J. A. Allen; Nebraska, Dodge; Omaha, Douglas County, 

 Nebraska (U.S.X.M. — Kiley collection; L. Bruner); St. Louis, Mis- 

 souri, July, October 27 (K.S.N.M. — Kiley collection); Vigo, Putnam 

 and Fulton counties, Indiana (W. S. Blatchley: A. P. Morse). 



It has also been reported from Dakota (IJruner), Illinois — Rock 

 Island, McLean and Champlain counties (Thomas, McNeill), and Ken- 

 tucky — Webster and Fayette counties (Garman). 



This is a sylvan species. Allen found it "abundant in grassy 

 groves" in Iowa, Blatchley finds it in Indiana "on the ir<m w^^eds 

 ( Vernonia faseiculnta) whiiih grow abundantly in low open woods," and 

 McNeill speaks of it in Illinois as a wood loving species. It may be 

 found full grown from the first of July to the middle of November. 



