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coarsely punctured; posterior margin of scutellum convex. Petiole 

 lengthened, pyriform; finely punctate; a medium furrow at apical end; 

 second abdominal segment globose, densely punctate, with circular de- 

 pression at the apical middle. Clothed with a short, dense yellow 

 pubescence. Head black. Clypeus, labruni, a spot between the antennae, a 

 line in the emargination of the eyes, a postocular line, yellow; mandibles 

 fulvous; antennae with scape and two or three basal points of the flagellum 

 rufofulvous; prothorax yellow ferruginous, more or less yellowish in front; 

 mesothorax black, sometimes tinged laterally with ferruginous; scutellum 

 ferruginous, black posteriorly; postscutellum yellow; metathorax yellow 

 ferruginous, black on basal middle to apex ; pleurae ferruginous vdth 

 anterior and posterior margins black; petiole ferruginous, basal half 

 with a broad median black stripe, sometimes nearly as wide as the 

 dorsum; second segment yellow, with a large blackish angular band, 

 sometimes quite .broad, starting from the basal middle and forking pos- 

 teriorly at about the basal third, reaching the lateral margin at the apex; 

 remaining segments ferruginous, tinged with yellow above. Legs yellow 

 ferruginous; wings brownish with yellowish reflections. 



g . Smaller, less robust; clypeus narrower; third and following seg- 

 ments black, banded with yellow. 

 Habitat: Texas and Kansas. 



Euntenes fratemus Say. 



E.fraterna Say; Long's Sec. Exped., 11, 344 (Append. 77) ; 182.5. 



E.fervens Sauss.; Vespides I, 40, 15; 1852. 



E.vixrops Sauss.; ibid. I, 41, 18 (var.?) ; 1852. 



E.minufo Sauss.; ibid. I, 39, 14 (Syn. exclus.). 



E. fratemus Sauss.; Syn. Am. Wasps Sol., 95-98; 1875. 



2 ■ Total length, 17 mm.; wing, 12 mm. 



g . Total length, 1? mm. 



2 . In form resembling E. bolli. Longer and more slender. Clypeus 

 less deeply emarginate; petiole longer at second segment, more grad- 

 ually globose, flat underneath, very convex above, finely punctured, its 

 posterior border with double leaves. All the body covered with short 

 gray pile. Insect shining black; two oblique spots on the basal margin 

 of the clypeus, the carina between the antennse, a postocular spot, a 

 spot on the anterior aspect of the scape, anterior border of the pro- 

 thorax, po.=;tscutellum, a spot under the tegulae, a spot on each side of 

 the postscutellum on the summit of the metathorax, apical margins of 

 first and second and sometimes third and fourth abdominal seg-ments, 

 and a variable dot on each side of the second abdominal segment, ci-eamy 

 yellow. Legs black; tibia variable with creamy yellow; wings brownish 

 with violet reflections. 



^ . Clypeus deeply emarginate, narrower than that of female; en- 

 tirely cream yellow or with black dot in middle; scape of antennas 

 marked with a yellow line; hook of antennae ferruginous. 



Habitat: "The eastern part of the United States," writes De Saus- 

 sure. "Very common." De Saussure records specimens from Louisiana, 

 South Carolina, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Illinois, 



