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tip of dorsal process to ventral angle slightly greater than length of basal por- 
tion, and about equal to length of annulate portion; dorsal process and tip of 
annulate portion with short black hair; annulate portion rather stout, the divi- 
sions distinct. Clypeus and genae nearly white, with white hair. Second palpal 
segment slender, tapering to a narrow apex, white, with black and white hair. 
Mesoscutum and scutellum dark brown, with black and yellowish-brown hair, 
the former with an indication of paler lines; prescutal lobe paler. Pleura, 
sternum, and coxae gray tinged with yellow, the hair white. Wing hyaline, 
with costal cell brownish, venation normal, veins dark brown. Femora and 
tibiae orange brown, the apical third of fore tibia and apices of others darker; 
tarsi dark reddish brown to black. 
Abdomen dark reddish brown above, the median third black; each tergite on 
posterior margin with a band of yellowish-gray pollen and hair, which widens 
slightly laterally and on second tergite forms a median triangle extending as a 
narrow line to anterior margin; venter almost entirely pale yellowish. 
Antenna, front view of head, and palpus of (A) Dicladocera annularis and 
B) D, sexfasciata, 
IIGURE DBD. 
Male—Areas of large and small facets of eye distinctly differentiated; first 
antennal segment with long black hair above; second palpal segment yellow, 
with black hair. Body generally darker than in female, the legs black except 
for basal halves of tibiae. 
Type.—Male, in the collection of Ohio State University. 
Type locality—Ocean Springs, Miss. 
Distribution —Mississippi. April 18 (Ocean Springs) to May 5 
(Lucedale). In the United States National Museum, one female. 
DICLADGCERA SEXFASCIATA Stone 
(Higs53 43) 
Dicladocera seafasciata Stone, Ent. Soe. Wash. Proce. 87: 11-12, 1935. 
Medium sized, stout; brown; wing hyaline; abdomen dark brown, with yellow 
posterior margins to the tergites and a harrow, median, yellow line on second 
tergite; third antennai segment with a prominent forward-projecting process 
above. 
Female—Length 15mm. Eye sparsely pilose, green, with a narrow, diagonal, 
purple band. Frons yellowish gray, a little more than three times as high as 
width at basal callus, slightly narrowed above; vertex depressed, a denuded 
area just anterior to it, but no ocellar tubercle; basal callus chestnut brown, 
rectangular, slightly broader than high; median callus slender and small, nar- 
rowly joined to basal callus; subcallus light gray, somewhat protuberant. First 
two antennal segments light orange brown, with black hair; third darker orange 
brown, the annulate portion nearly black; basal portion with a prominent for- 
ward-projecting process from dorsal surface basally, the process reaching a little 
beyond base of annulate portion and slightly turned down apically; ventral 
margin slightly angulate near distal third; annulate portion a little shorter 
than basal portion. Clypeus and genae nearly white, with white hair. Palpus 
nearly as long as proboscis, the second segment slightly swollen basally and 
tapered apically, pale cream colored, with white and a few black hairs. 
Mesoscutum brownish gray; a broad, median, nearly black stripe, faintly 
divided medianly by a paler brown line, extending from anterior margin two- 
thirds of way to seutellum; posterior to this a narrow, brown, median stripe 
reaching to scutellum; laterad of median stripe a black stripe, broken on trans- 
verse suture, narrowing behind, and nearly reaching scutellum, the posterior 
portion surrounded by a brown area; prescutal lobe with coarse black hair ; 
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