268 EDWARD NORTON, 



;■. M. epinotus. 



Allanfus epinotus, Say, Bost. Jour, i, 183'), 215, 1. ^ %. 

 Norton, Bost. Jour, vii, 257, 42. 



Allanius sambucci, Harris' Cat. 



Macrophya epinotus, Norton, Bost. Proc. ix, 118. 

 Black; mouth, collar, scutel and basal plates white, posterior tibiae banded. 

 Length % 0.28. Br. wings 0.64 inch. Length 5 0.36. Br. wings 0.70 inch. 



9. Body short, thorax enhirged, as in M. excavatus ; antenii?e 

 black, stout, as in Selandria, enlarged toward base ; head and thorax 

 dull, with close punctures, coarsest on pleura ; uasus wide, deeply 

 notched ; labrum truncate ; both, with a spot on mandibles, two dots, 

 sometimes minute, on edge of occiput back of ocelli, a spot on tegulas, 

 collar, most part of scutel and of basal plates, a spot on hinder coxae, 

 white ; abdomen short, cylindrical ; legs black ; all the trochanters, 

 the anterior femora beneath, their tibiae, except at tip, the medial fe- 

 mora at base and tip beneath, and their tibia?, except at tip, the knee 

 joint of posterior femora, (a lino beneath these femora sometimes white 

 or rufous or obsolete), a band on their tibiae and all the tarsi yellowish; 

 each tarsal joint tipped with black. 



Var. a. <^ % . Scutel black, a black line down the four anterior ti- 

 bia3 above. The male has the spots back of ocelli wanting. (Conn.) 



Var. b. '^ % . Scutel pale, spots back of ocelli wanting, a black line 

 down the four anterior tibiae above, a dot on pleura. (Colorado.) 



Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, Colorado. 



4. M. pulchella. 



Tcntlu-cdo {All) jndrhcUa, Klug. Borl. Mag. viii, 1814, 121, 89. 



AUantus flavolineatus, Norton, Bost. Jour, vii, 259, 45. 



Macrophya pulchella, Norton, Bost. Proc. ix, 118. 

 Black ; mouth, collar, scutel, a stripe on pleura, part of legs, and a band on 

 posterior tibiae yellow. Length % 0.25. Br. wings 0.55 inch. Length 9 0. 32. 

 Br. wings 0.65 inch. 



9 . Body short, not so stout as in M. epinotus; antenua3 longer than 

 base of abdomen, not very stout ; nasus incurved ; labrum truncate, 

 punctured as in last species; mouth, teguhie, collar, apex of scutel, a 

 broad stripe across pleura, extreme edge of basal plates and tip of anal 

 segment pale yellow ; legs pale yellow; coxae yellow, a black line down 

 the four anterior femora and tibi;ie above; posterior pair black below 

 the middle of femora, with a yellow baud on tibi;\;. Wings faintly 

 smoky, nervures dark, stigma pale at base; lanceolate cell with short, 

 straight cross line. 



% . Legs paler; only a slender black line down the four anterior ti- 

 biae above, sometimes obsolete. The spot on scutel is sometimes want- 

 ing and the band on binder tibijo incomplete. 



