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polyturator with which I have compared it, but no further ex- 
amples have come into my hands during the eighteen years that 
have elapsed since this one was obtained. There are however, 
in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology four 
additional females, three from the Banks collection taken at 
Falls Church, Va., taken during August and September and one 
from Jones Creek, Lee Co., Virginia. From Patton’s description, 
the Connecticut specimen differs slightly in having the white 
antennal annulus restricted almost entirely to the apex of the 
ninth segment, not extending over the tenth, and in having only 
a single cloud, mainly in the radial cell of the fore wing. 
P. hrunneipes can hardly be regarded as more than a distinct 
subspecies, but it is distinguishable very readily from the typical 
form. The following dichotomy indicates the structural dif- 
ferences between the females of the two. 
Front coarsely reticulate medially, smooth at the sides, with 
some coarse punctures between the reticulate and smooth 
parts; parapsidal furrows coarsely crenulated or cross- 
striated; propodeum behind middle distinctly trans- 
versely rugose-reticulate, sometimes with large punctures 
intermixed; fore wing distinctly clouded only in the radial 
cell; length 50-60 mm. 
P. polyturator Drury. 
Front between the base of antennse and the ocelli coarsely 
and quite regularly punctate, some of the punctures 
confluent; parapsidal furrows indicated by a line of 
fine, evenly spaced punctures; propodeum smooth, except 
for a few separate punctures medially behind the middle; 
fore wing sometimes (in the type) with a second apical 
cloud in the cubital area, below the cloud in the radial 
cell; 6 length 27-31 mm. 
P. polyturator, subsp. hrunneipes Patton. 
The male of this form must be comparatively rare also as 
none has ever been recorded and there is no reason to suppose 
that it occurs any more abundantly than that of the larger North 
American form. 
6 A variety from Peru, P. polyturator, var. apicalis Roman has the apex of 
the fore wing broadly and distinctly blackened. 
