Allantus in the United States. 237 



Tentlircdo terminalis. Say. Long's Second Exp. II. 

 318. 9 $. 



A. melisoma. Harris's Catalogue. 



Inhabits U. S. (Say). Found in Connecticut, and Mas- 

 sachusetts (Harris's Collection). 



The specimens in the Hams Collection cdXled A. meliso- 

 ma differ but little from the above. 



Sp. 2. A. mellosus. Nov. spec. Antennae white at tip ; 

 vertex and thorax black ; abdomen testaceous yellow. 

 ( 9 Long. corp. 0.45 in. Ex. alar. 0.80 in. ? Long. 0.37 

 in. Ex. alar. 0.67 in.) 



9 Testaceous ; antennae black ; four apical joints white ; 

 head pale yellow, sometimes testaceous ; a lobate black 

 spot on vertex, from occiput to clypeus, touching the eyes 

 at summit ; a narrow, pale line within it from two of the 

 ocelli to antennae, and connected between them ; clypeus 

 deeply emarginate ; labrum rounded and fringed with pale 

 hair ; mandibles black at tip. Thorax black ; edge of col- 

 lar, wing-scale, a spot below each wing on pleura, a V on 

 prothorax, scutellum, two dots behind, and ridge on meta- 

 thorax, yellow ; a broad band on pleura, the abdomen, and 

 legs, testaceous yellow ; a narrow line at base of second 

 segment of abdomen and in middle of basal membrane 

 overlapping first segment, black ; coxae and base of femora 

 white ; base of posterior coxae black ; wings hyaline ; ner- 

 vures fuscous ; basal half of stigma white. 



$ The male has the two basal joints of antennae white 

 above ; apical half of fifth joint white ; pleura almost 

 entirely white; abdomen and legs paler color than in 

 female. 



Inhabits Connecticut, and Pennsylvania (Dr. Clemens). 



Eight specimens examined. This male is described by 

 Say as the male of A. terminalis. 



Sp. 3. A. apicalis. Say. Bost. Jour. I. 216. 9 . 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



