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apical pale yellowish fascia, very broad on each extreme side, deeply 

 emarginate anteriorly on each side of the middle, aud more or less 

 dilated on the disk, that on the second segment interrupted on the disk. 

 the lateral emarginations sometimes so deep as to interrupt the fascia 

 into three spots. Length 33 — 1 lines; expanse of wings (3J — 8 lines. 

 Collection. — Dr. J. (lundlach. Two specimens. 



Ceropales clypeatus, n. sp. 



Black: most of clypeus, palpi, posterior margin of prothorax, and the tegulse. 

 yellowish-white: legs ferruginous; wings whitish-hyaline, with a pale fuscous 

 cloud near the apex. 



Female. — Black, opaque; face silvery in certain lights: clypeus yel- 

 lowish-white, with a square black spot on the basal middle ; palpi 

 whitish ; antennae blackish, the basal joint beneath dull ferruginous. 

 Thorax : posterior margin of the prothorax entirely yellowish-white ; 

 metathorax black, rather shining, rounded behind ; tegulae yellowish- 

 white. Wings whitish-hyaline, slightly iridescent, with a small pale 

 fuscous cloud covering the marginal and the second and third submar- 

 giual cells ; nervures black. Legs long, especially the posterior pair, 

 and including their coxae, ferruginous, the posterior tarsi fuscous, tibial 

 spurs white Abdomen oblong-ovate, piceous-black, immaculate, the 

 basal segment tinged with obscure ferruginous. Length 3 lines ; ex- 

 panse of wings 5 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Gundlach. One specimen. 



Genus PEPSIS. Latr. 

 Sec. 1. — Wings mostly ferruginous. 

 Pepsis marginata, Beauv. 



Pepsis marginata, Beauv. Ins. Afriq. et Amer. p. 94, pi. 2. fig. 2 J , 3 'J, . St. 

 Farg. et Serv. Ency. Meth. x, p. 64. St. Farg. Hym. iii, 

 p. 470. Guer. LaSagra's Hist. Cuba, Ins. p. 761. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Five $ , three £ specimens. 

 The cocoon of this fine species is elongate-ovate, 2| inches long by 

 1 8 inch wide about the middle, gradually tapering at one end, constructed 

 of a rather thin, hard, woody substance, of a yellowish -brown color, 

 more or less mottled or stained with blackish. The imago makes its 

 exit at the smallest end by means of a circular incision made about one- 

 fourth from the tip, which forms a cap or lid, somewhat similar to that 

 of the cocoons of certain minute Ichneumonidae. 



Sec. 2. — Wings blackish, margined at tip with hyaline. 

 Pepsis ornata, St. Farg. 



Pepsis ornata, St. Farg. Hym. iii, p. 486. Guer. LaSagra's Hist. Cuba, Ins. p. 761. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Four $, three % specimens. 



