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^curved creamy -grey ones to the lateral lobes ; metanotuin deep 

 brown ; pleurae deep brown, with two large patches of flat white 

 scales and two smaller patches. 



Abdomen deep brown with rich violet iridescence and small 

 basal lateral white spots, thin pale border-bristles ; basal segment 

 with a large median patch of dark scales, a few basal white ones 

 and long pale hairs ; venter mainly white scaled ; the basal 

 lateral spots show prominently on the venter. 



Legs deep brown with violet and bronze reflections ; base and 

 under side of femora white, fore and mid ungues equal, uniserrate, 

 hind equal and simple. 



Wings densely scaled with long rather thick straight lateral 

 vein scales and large spatulate median vein scales; first sub- 

 marginal cell considerably longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem 



Fig. 77. 

 Wing of Protomacleaya triseriata. 9 Say. 



rather more than one-third the length of the cell ; stem of the 

 second posterior more than half the length of the cell ; posterior 

 oross vein longer than the mid, about one and a half times its 

 own length distant from it ; halteres ochreous, with grey scales. 



Length. — 4 to 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania (Say) ; Lahaway, New Brunswick, 

 Chester, Lake Hopatcong, Newark & Warren County, Garret 

 Mountain, Paterson, N. Jersey (J. B. Smith) ; Agricultural 

 College, Mississippi (Prof. Glenn-Herrick) ; Ithaca, Albany 

 (E. P. Pelt), Poughkeepsie (O. A. Johannsen), New York ; 

 New Hampshire ; Connecticut (H. L. Yiereck) ; Pennsylvania ; 

 Maryland; Virginia (L. 0. Howard); Augusta Arsenal, Georgia; 

 Fort Snelling, Minnesota ; Jefferson Barracks, Montana ; Rock 

 Island Arsenal, Illinois ; Westlawn Cem, Ohio (Miss Ludlow). 



Time of capture. — May (Professor Glenn-Herrick) ; April, 

 June, August, October (J. B. Smith). 



Observations. — This species is re-described from specimens 



