AMERICAN HYMENOrTERA. 141 



telluiu, a spot on the posterior angles of metathorax, and a spot on 

 each side of the thorax just above the intermediate coxae, sometimes 

 wanting, all lemon-yellow ; wings hyaline, sometimes stained with yel- 

 lowish, extreme tips dusky; legs black; a stripe on the anterior coxae, 

 most of the intermediate pair, tips of the posterior pair and an exterior 

 stripe, tips of all the femora, and the four anterior tibias exteriorly, 

 lemon-yellow ; the four anterior tibiae beneath and their tarsi are gene- 

 rally pale brownish ; the posterior legs are sometimes entirely brown 

 or reddish-brown, with the femora not tipped with yellow, and some- 

 times their tibiae are more or less yellow at base; posterior legs not 

 disproportionately long, as in the preceding species; abdomen with a 

 broad yellow band on each of the four basal segments, that on the first 

 segment is sometimes more or less interrupted in the middle; fifth and 

 sixth segments more or less yellow; venter immaculate. Length 3 — 

 5|f lines. 



Mule. — Closely resembles the 9 > but the clypeas is entirely yellow, 

 and the first segment of the abdomen has a large ovate spot on each 

 side, except in one specimen, which has a broad band, constricted and 

 slightly interrupted in the middle. Ijength 2h — 5 lines. 



Hah. — Mass., Conn., N. Y., Penna., West Va., Ills., Colorado Terr., 

 (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. and Mr. E. Norton). 



Twelve 9 j six % specimens. The legs of this species vary much 

 in color, and the markings of the body are sometimes yellowish-white ; 

 the abdominal fasciae are generally very broad in the 9 j sometimes 

 wavy, and more or less emarginate on each side anteriorly. 



6. Ceropales cubensis. 



Ccropaks cubensis, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 1.32, 9- 

 Female. — Black; head, thorax and legs silvery-sericeous; orbits, 

 very broad in front, face beneath antenna3, a spot between them, the 

 clypeus and labrum, pale yellowish; two basal joints of antennae more 

 or less yellowish beneath; prothorax with a spot on each side, and its 

 posterior margin, spot on scutellum, and a transverse one on the post- 

 scutellum, and the extreme posterior angles of the metathorax, pale 

 yellowish ; mesothorax with deep, close punctures ; wings hyaline, 

 dusky at tips; legs ferruginous, the four anterior coxae black, more or 

 less yellowish beneath ; posterior tarsi very long, fuscous ; basal seg- 

 ment of abdomen with a sublunate pale yellowish spot on each side ; 

 remaining segments each with an apical pale yellowish fascia, very 

 broad on each extreme side, deeply emarginate anteriorly on each side 

 of the middle, and more or less dilated on the disk ; the fasciae are 



