Allantus in the United States. 243 



Hab. Connecticut and Massachusetts. 



Two specimens examined. They strongly resemble A. 

 bi/asciatiis, and also A. cestiis, of Say. 



Sp. 13. A. cestns. Say. Bost. Jour. I. 217. $ 9 . 



Hab. United States (Say). 



I have received one female from Kansas, through Mr. 

 Uhler. 



Sp. 14. A. goniphorus. Say. Bost. Jour. I. 216. $ 9 . 



Hab. Indiana (Say), Connecticut, Pennsylvania (Dr. 

 Clemens). 



Sp. 15. A. epicera. Say. Bost. Jour. I. 216, $ 

 " Black ; abdomen, base of the antennge, and feet, honey 

 yellow." 



? Say describes only the male. The female differs in 

 having the base of the coxsb black, and the trochanters and 

 base of femora white. 



Hab. Indiana (Say), and Connecticut. 



Two females examined. 



d. Antennae black or of a dark hue. 

 X. Abdomen wholly or mostly rufous. 



Sp. 16. A. pallipes. Say. West. Quarterly Rep., vol. 

 ii. 1, 72, 1823. 



" Black ; thorax rufous before ; feet white. 

 " Inhabits Missouri. 



" Body black ; labrum and palpi white ; thorax with a 

 rufous triangle before, a rufous spot on each side of the 

 disk, another beneath the origin of the wing, and the tip of 

 the scutel rufous ; a whitish spot before the wings ; wings 

 a little dusky ; carpus whitish ; feet white ; posterior thighs 

 blackish in the middle ; tergum, with the lateral basal 

 margin of the segments, rufous ; venter rufo-testaceous ; 

 each side dusky in the middle. 



" Length seven twentieths of an inch." 



The specimens taken by me differ from the above de- 

 scription as follows. The clypeus is yellow ; the scuteilum 



