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sides of first segment (black above and below) ; narrow lateral and 

 broad apical margins of other tergites, and two large subreniform 

 subbasal spots on second tergite. 



Male. — Essentially like female. Annulus on flagellar joints 8 or 

 9 to 13 or 14; temples convex; malar space distinctly shorter than 

 basal width of mandible; prescutiim usually more or less white 

 laterally; propodeum less strongly sculptured; abdomen more 

 slender. 



The above description is based on three of each sex, all from 

 Cuba. Four of these, received from the Paris Museum, were col- 

 lected at Havana in 1908 by P. Serre. From this series two males 

 are retained for the National Collection and a pair returned to the 

 Paris Museum. The other two females are labelled " Cuba, M. S. 

 Roig," and are numbered 284 and 292. 



43. POLYCYRTUS (POLYCYRTUS) COLLINUS Cameron 



PoJycyrtus collinus Cameeon, Biol. Cent. Amer., Hym., vol. 1, p. 231, pi. 

 10, fig. 2, female. 



Two specimens that I have determined as this species are before 

 me, a female taken at LaCeiba, Honduras, October 18, 1916, by F. J. 

 Dyer, and a male taken at Gatun, Panama Canal Zone, August 20, 

 1923, by R. C. Shannon. 



Female. — Differs from above description of lituratus as follows: 

 Eyes very nearly parallel within; hypostomal carina very low be- 

 hind occipital carina and erect; temples from above slightly con- 

 vex; ocelli a little smaller; metapleurum more finely rugose; propo- 

 deum only obsoletely rugose apically, sparsely punctate otherwise, 

 apophyses rather short ; abdomen a little more slender. 



Head and thorax with essentially the same color pattern as litu- 

 ratus but black instead of piceous; frontal horn entirely black; 

 orbital ring narrowly interrupted behind top of eye; discal marks 

 on mesoscutum short; transverse black band of propodeum abruptly 

 narrowed above apophyses and narrowly confluent with lateral 

 stripes; legs white with a black dorsal streak from base of coxa to 

 apex of tibia and in front and middle legs to apex of basitarsus, 

 other joints of front and middle tarsi black, hind tarsus white; 

 black of dorsum of first tergite reduced to a narrow, somewhat an- 

 chor-shaped mark with the tips of its flukes on the spiracles; black 

 of second tergite nearly divided into two by narrow extensions of 

 white from the sides 



Male. — Differs from female in much the same way as does the male 

 of lituratus from its female. The propodeum is practically unsculp- 

 tured and the sculpture of the metajjleurum is reduced to coarse 

 punctation. The hind tibia is dark above only at base. 



