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coxe clothed with pale golden scales. Abdomen above dark metal- 
lic blue, the basal segment clothed with coarser lighter-colored 
greenish scales. Patches of golden scales at the sides of the sixth 
and seventh segments. Beneath pale golden, a broad median pur- 
ple stripe on segments 3-7; eighth segment purple beneath, golden 
at the sides. Lateral cilia pale yellow except on the eighth segment 
and claspers, where they are dark. 
Legs dark with purple lustre. The femora pale golden on the 
lower surface. Front tibiz dull golden on the outside, the middle 
tibiz on the inside. Middle legs with the third and part of the 
fourth segments of the tarsi silvery on the outer side. Hind legs 
with the fourth tarsal segment white. 
Female.—Antennz: second segment twice as long as the third 
and but slightly thicker, the basal half with a crest of erect scales. 
Palpi about two-thirds the length of the proboscis, four-jointed, 
stout, more or less laterally compressed, the third segment much 
thickened at the apex. Color violet-blue and purple with many pale 
golden scales, particularly on the sides of the second and third seg- 
ments; apices of the segments pale mauve. Third segment much 
the longest, fourth shorter and stouter than the second, nearly 
* cylindrical. 
The abdomen is more or less greenish, passing into steel blue 
towards the tip. Segments 4-7 show golden spots at the sides and 
the sixth and seventh are finely margined behind with gold; eighth 
segment purplish spotted with gold. Femora and tibiz as in the 
male. All the tarsi marked with white. On the first and second 
pair of legs the tarsi have the tip of the first, the second and the 
third, and part of the fourth segments white. On the hind legs 
the fourth and all but the tip of the fifth tarsal segments are white. 
Length, 6-10 mm. 
Type No. 9952, U. S. N. M. 
Localities: Woodstock, Va. (F. C. Pratt), Morgantown, W. Va. 
(A. D. Hopkins), Washington, D. C. (J. Kotinsky), Plummer’s 
Island, Md. (A. K. Fisher, W. V. Warner), River Township, Hen- 
derson Co, N. C. (J. L. Coker, Jr.), St. Louis, Mo.-(A. -Busek), 
Baton Rouge, La. (J. W. Dupree), Benoit, Miss. (H. S. Barber), 
Ringo, Indian Territory (A. N. Caudell), Skyland, Va. (Miss W. 
Pollock), Grandfather Mt., N. C. (F. Sherman). 
13 ¢, 11 .. It should be noted that the markings on all the tarsi 
are clear white in the female. In the male the silvery markings of 
the middle tarsi are less distinct than the white on the hind tarsi and 
sometimes have to be carefully looked for. These markings are 
