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large pale area just beyond the smaller areole and the tip of cuneus, 

 divided by a small fuscous spot which touches the margin ; central 

 area more or less invaded by paler, cubitus distinctly pale at apex 

 of areoles. 



Legs : Coxae and bases of femora pale ; front and intermediate 

 femora with a series of irregular reddish brown to fuscous marks ; 

 posterior femora blackish, forming the background for many large 

 and small irrorations, the pale patches most numerous and broadly 

 joined on the inner side, an irregular pale annulation a short space 

 before apex and a second one nearer the middle but interrupted on 

 the outside. Tibiae annulated with fuscous and pale; front pair 

 banded with fuscous at apex, narrowly at knee, and twice between 

 these points ; intermediate pair with the apical band becoming 

 pale, the whole apical half being more pale than fuscous ; hind 

 pair infuscated, irregularly spotted with pale, broadly pale on basal 

 one-third, delimited by blackish on inner side at base and by a 

 distinct annulation at middle; spines pale to brownish; tarsi 

 fuscous, arolia erect and diverging at the apices. 



Venter : Clothed with prominent yellowish hairs, infuscated, 

 yellowish on ventral side except the genital segment which is 

 narrowly pale along median line and frequently on the sides near 

 base of claspers. Genital claspers and flagellum (fig. 149: i) 

 distinctive of the species. 



Female: Length 5.7 mm., width 2.05 mm. Very similar to the 

 male in coloration; imperfect or poorly colored specimens can 

 never with certainty be distinguished from the females of closely 

 related species. 



Occurs on a number of plants in various situations ; is largely 

 if not wholly predaceous as are a number of closely related species 

 in this group. 



East River, 5 Aug., 1910 (C. R. E.) ; New Haven, 29 July, 1920 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Portland, 12 Aug., 1913 (B. H. W.). 



P. brevifurcatus Knight. 



Bull. Brook. Ent. Sci., xv, 53, 1920. 



Male: Length 5.8 mm., width 2.14 mm. Very similar to eximius 

 but without heavy oblique fuscous mark at apex of corium ; second 

 antennal segment darker fuscous on the middle third; head and 

 pronotum distinctly grayish green on the paler parts ; hind femora 

 with smaller irrorations, not distinctly banded with pale; genital 

 claspers and flagellum (fig. 149: 2) distinctive of the species. 



New York. 

 P. neglectus Knight. 



Bull. Brook. Ent. Sci., xv, 54, 1920. 



Male: Length 6.2 mm., width 2.2 mm. Resembles eximius hut 

 with antennal segment ii uniformly blackish except for the whitish 

 annulation at base ; corium and clavus usually more broadly black- 



