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Scutellum pale, with orange mark each side of median line and 

 extending obliquely to lateral margin. Sternum pale, episternum 

 with red mark, epimeron chiefly red, ostiolar peritreme white, 

 reddish just above. 



Hemelytra : Irregularly marked with red reticulations, produced 

 by the thickly placed and more or less confluent pale irrorations, 

 basal half of corium more nearly fusco-reddish, extreme tip of 

 clavus and spot near inner basal angle of cuneus, black with promi- 

 nent black hairs ; clothed with golden yellow pubescence, central 

 area with a few small spots of sericeous silvery tomentum ; cuneus 

 with bright red and irrorate with rather small pale spots. Mem- 

 brane pale fuscous, areoles and central area with clear spots, veins 

 pale to fuscous. 



Legs : Pale to yellowish, apical two-thirds of hind femora with 

 dark red, irrorate with large and small pale irrorations, an irregular 

 incomplete pale band at middle of apical half, with a few blackish 

 hairs arising from the red ; spines on hind tibiae pale, with reddish 

 spots at base of each except apically. 



Venter: Pale yellowish, reddish dots on sides, base of genital 

 segment fuscous ; genital claspers and flagellum distinctive of the 

 species (fig. 148). 



Female: Length 5.1mm., width 1.77 mm.; larger and more 

 robust than the male but very similar in coloration, the dorsum and 

 membrane frequently more broadly pale. 



Breeds on Quercus macrocarpa. 



Holotype. Male, 15 Aug., 1916, Batavia, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype: 11 Aug., 1920, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. 

 (H. H. Knight). Paratypes : New York — Male, 10 Aug., females (2), 

 12 Aug., males (6), 15 Aug., 1916, type locality (H. H. Knight), taken on 

 Quercus macrocarpa. Male and female, 24 Aug., 191 5, Batavia (H. H. 

 Knight), taken on Fraxinus pennsyivanica, one specimen in tenerel condition. 

 Minnesota — Males and females (34), 5 Aug., males and females (8), 11 

 Aug., 1920, University Farm, St. Paul (H. H. Knight), on Quercus 

 macrocarpa. 



Tribe MYRMECORINI. 



Key to Genera. 



1. Antennal segment i, in length, distinctly greater than width of 

 head; scutellum not conically produced; dorsum with fine short 



pubescence Paraxenetus 



Antennal segment i, in length, scarcely greater than width of 

 vertex; scutellum conically produced; dorsum, especially the 

 pronotum and scutellum, with long erect pilose hairs Barberiella 



Paraxenetus Reuter. 



P. guttulatus (Uhler). 



Ent. Amer., iii, p. 150, 1887. 



Embolar margins strongly sulcate, or medially coarctate ; fusco- 

 grayish and tinged with fulvous ; cuneus, veins of membrane, and 



