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tennse, and tarsi black, the fore and hind tarsi red at the base ; wings 

 gray, the transverse veins and an additional veinlet being placed on 

 the anterior side of the penultimate segment of the fourth longitudinal 

 vein, are bordered with black. Long. corp. 0.16 — 0.18. Long. al. 0.16 

 — 0.1S. 



Face dusted with grayish white, usually with some more brown- 

 ish spots, sometimes with a more yellowish-gray tinge ; it is slightly 

 convex, but not even, eye-rings broad ; viewed laterally, they show 

 at their upper end two black spots, united by a white transverse 

 line, which disappear when viewed in other directions. The very 

 projecting clypeus is of the same color as the face. Proboscis 

 thick and black ; palpi narrow, rather long and black. Antennae 

 black, the third joint in certain directions with a whitish-gray 

 reflection; the hair on the upper side and the tip remarkably long. 

 Front brown, anteriorly with some small dots, further back with 

 some nearly black spots. Thorax and scutellum brownish, with 

 numerous close, small, dark-brown dots ; pleurae also dotted. Ab- 

 domen brownish-black, rather opaque, on the posterior border of 

 each segment with a whitish-gray, very opaque fascia, a little 

 widened on its middle, and intersected by a brownish-black 

 middle stripe. The two halves of the gray fascia of the second 

 segment are sometimes connected on their posterior margins ; the 

 fifth abdominal segment of the male is a little longer than the 

 preceding. Legs entirely black, the fifth joint of the fore and 

 hind tarsi clothed with shining felt of a bright reddish-yellow ; 

 the first joint of the fore tarsi at its base, and the first joint of 

 the hind tarsi almost to its tip, are usually red ; paler specimens 

 have also the first joint of the middle tarsi red ; in darker ones 

 the first joint of the anterior tarsi is entirely black. Wings gray, 

 veins brown ; the second half of the costal vein, the end of the 

 third longitudinal vein, and nearly the whole fourth and fifth lon- 

 gitudinal veins, rather black ; the transverse veins and a small 

 stump, emitted by the fourth longitudinal vein about the middle of 

 its penultimate segment, black and narrowly bordered with black ; 

 the second segment of the costal vein more than twice as long as 

 the third. 



Hah. Middle States. (Osten-Sacken.) Georgia. 



