Collected at UV light in a restored prairie with nearby woodland. This keys to S. cinerea in Leonard's 1931 review of eastern species. The yellow femora and short mesonotal hairs are diagnostic. Type locality is New Jersey.

KEY TO FEMALES OF EASTERN SPECIES

1.-Femora black or brown .......... ........................ 2.
Femora reddish or yellowish................................... 5.
2.-Third antennal segment reddish yellow.................... pleuralis Curran.
Third antennal segment black or brown.................................. 3.
3.-Front not wider than eye from dorsal view................................ 4.
Front much wider than eye.................................. 6.
4.-Tibim yellowish, slightly brownish apically; tarsi mostly pale... hirta Johnson.
Tibiae reddish brown, the bases broadly reddish; tarsi black, more or less reddish
brown at the base............................ currani, n. sp.
5.-Pile of the front and mesonotum black, coarse and long (Colorado and Oregon).
fulvipes Bigot.
Pile of the front black and short, that of the mesonotum mostly whitish.
cinerea Johnson.
6.-Abdomen yellow pilose .................................. montana Aldrich.
Abdomen black pilose, the sides of the first and second segments with yellow pile.
algens, n. sp.