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a great deal in this genus, as the abdomen may be contracted in 
some individuals and distended in others. A better basis of 
comparison is the wing measurement. 
Mallophora rex, sp. nov. 
d 71 $ — Length of body, 26-33 mm. (A series of 86 M. bom- 
boides from Florida gave lengths from 23-29 mm.) Similar to 
bomboides in habitus. Mystax composed of dense yellow bristles 
below, black above. Beard, light yellow. Palpi, black with 
yellow hairs and a few black ones. Antennae dark brown. 
Pile along anterior border of prescutum and lateral anterior 
angles of thorax, yellow. A strip of yellow pile extending from 
base of wings to metacoxae. Scutellum covered with a dense 
mass of long yellow pile. Other hairs of thorax black. 
Wings dark purplish brown. Legs dark reddish-brown, 
densely covered with short, stout black hairs. The hind femur 
with a very few inconspicuous yellow hairs intermingled. The 
under side of the hind tibia of the a 71 bears a small tuft of white 
pile. 
In five specimens from N. Carolina the venter of the ab- 
domen is covered solely with black hairs; in the five other spe- 
cimens from which the description was drawn (three from Miss- 
issippi, one from N. Carolina, and one from Florida), there is a 
median line of light yellow pile, broadening toward the apex of 
the abdomen where it clothes the sixth and seventh segments. 
The first three tergites bear dense yellow pile. The remainder 
of the pile on the abdomen is black. The hairs on the male 
claspers are black. 
Habitat. Three specimens from the collection of the Miss. 
Agricultural College, received from Professor Harned. Newton 
Co., Mississippi (Aug. 1920) (E. Blackburn); Iuka, Miss. (J. N. 
Miller); Leaksville, Miss. (Aug. 20) (0. Z. Smith). Four spe- 
cimens from Southern Pines, N. C., three of which were taken 
Aug. 1907, and one 1, 7, ’89 (A. H. Manee coll.) received from 
Mr. Nathan Banks; and two from the collection of the Ameri- 
can Ent. Soc., courtesy of Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr. The Data on 
the latter are: one from “Florida,” and one from Southern 
Pines, N. Carolina (VIII, 26, ’09) collected by A. H. Manee. 
