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244 ^ Say^s Descriptions of 



pressed line at their middles : oviduct less than half the 

 length of the E^bdomen, a little recurved at tip: feet 

 honey-yellow ; intermediate and posterior pairs of tarsi 

 white, the joints black at their. tips; posterior pair of 

 tibiae black, white in the middle. 



^much smaller; thorax tinged with piceous; hypo- 



stoma white; pectus honey-yellow; feet paler than in 

 the female. 



Length three tenths of an inch. 



The metathorax is convex as in Xorides, elongated, 

 but the head is transverse and not globular. 



6. A. lineatulus. Black ; anterior pairs of feet honey- 

 yellow ; tergum with minute lines. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black, sparsely punctured : ;palpi whitish : tJio- 

 Tax with two deeply impressed lines, uniting behind : 

 xvings hyaline ; nervures fuscous : scutel at base with a 

 dilated indentation: metathorax with raised lines: ahdo- 

 men gradually tapering to the base : tergum on the three 

 basal joints, with numerous, small, longitudinal, raised 

 lines; fourth and following segments with much more 

 minute transverse ones : feet^ anterior pairs entirely 

 honey-yellow ; posterior pair black, the mcisures yellow- 

 ish ; posterior tarsi yellowish. 



S 



resemblance 



however, has the posterior thighs thickened and with an 



obvious 



terpfum 



ments distinguish this species. 



7. A divaricatus. Black ; tergum with two oblique 



Inhabits Florida. 



segment 



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