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A NEW MYODITES (RHIPIPHORIDÆ)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. Dwight. Pierce
Affiliation:
Lincoln, Nebr.

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The specimens on which this description is based are in the collections of the University of Nebraska and of the author. I owe especial acknowledgments to Mr. J. C. Crawfrod, Jr., for specimens and field observations, andto professor Bruner for directing my work.A sixteen-power glass was used in determining characters.

Myodites solidaginis, n. sp. – Female: Length, 7.9 mm. Head depressed, finely and evenly punctate, clad with dense yellowish-white, perpendicular pubescence; antennæ pectinate, ten-jointed, pubescent, very finely punctate, third joint with base of tooth yellowish; vertex between antennæ elevated; mandibles with the exterior side finely punctate, densely pubescent, grooved, in front and on interior sides shining glabrous. Thorax densely punctate, with median groove, but becoming mesially carinate behind the centre, clad with dense, upright, yellowish-white pubescence.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1902

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