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7. Wings hyaline, marginal cell darker; coxae red; form robust, 
rufomaculatus 
7. Wings uniformly dark fuliginous; coxae black or dark brownish; 
form’) more: slender and much Wonecen: 9 osc en eee 8 
8. Thorax black, ornamented with yellowish; second recurrent 
nervure interstitial with second transverse cubital nervure, 
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8s. Thorax reddish brown, ornamented with yellow; second 
recurrent nervure not interstitial with second cubital nerv- 
TIE Ooh areas Bera sre totes vo/ thos Bete g ISO ese MIE ie Seite floridanus 
Pseudoplisus phaleratus (Say). 
1836. Gorytes phaleratus Say, Boston Journal of Natural History, i, p. 
368. 
1859. Gorytes phaleratus Say, Leconte edition, ii, p. 752. 
1895. Gorytes phaleratus Fox, Proceedings of the Academy of Naiural 
Sciences of Philadelphia, p. 537. 
Thirteen specimens, both sexes, from West Point, Lincoln, 
Weeping Water, Carns, and Glen, thus ranging across the entire 
state. Quite variable as to size, but easily distinguished from 
the other members of the genus found in this state by the yellow- 
ish wings. 7 Be 
Pseudoplisus varipunctus, n. sp. 
@. Length 10 mm. Eyes strongly convergent below, the distance be- 
tween them at base of clypeus about one-half that on a line drawn through 
the posterior ocelli; front with large, deep, widely separated punctures, 
almost pits, the spaces between which are microscopically punctured; im- 
pressed line quite strong; ocelli situated on a slight prominence, the pos- 
terior ones about as far apart as the distance to the nearest eye margin, 
and about twice as far apart as the distance to the anterior ocellus; occiput 
and cheeks smooth and shining, practically impunctate; clypeus strongly 
convex, as long in the middle as distance between eyes at base; strongly 
punctured as front, some of the punctures confluent; anterior margin of 
clypeus sinuate; disk of clypeus with a few long fulvous hairs; front with 
short, rather sparse, silvery ones; flagellum gradually thickened toward 
apex, the first three joints about twice as long as thick, the remaining 
joints not much longer than thick. Anterior portion of prothorax, the 
neck, fulvous on anterior margin, quite strongly punctured above, and 
bearing a coat of griseous pubescence; depressed space between neck and 
collar strongly foveolated. Mesonotum smooth, shining, microscopically 
punctured, anteriorly with four short parapsidal grooves; suture between 
mesonotum and scutellum foveolate; scutellum and postscutellum punc- 
tured as mesonotum; carina separating sternum from mesopleura very 
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