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STICTIA ANTIOPA (Handlirsch) 



Monedula antiojya Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., 

 - vol. 99. 1890, p. 109.— Dalla Tobbe, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1891, p. 496. 



Handlir.sch described this species from a single female and dis- 

 tinguished tlie species from heros because of the finer puncturing of 

 the scutum and heavier infumation of the wings of this species, and 

 from wedea through the lack of yellow fasciae on the scutellimi. 

 metanotum, and propodeum. I have at hand a female, determined 

 by Kohl, that bears the characters given by Handlirsch. I have also 

 another female (labeled ''Surinam"), which I have referred to this 

 species and which bears a pair of lateral spots on the scutellum. a 

 small pair on the metanotum, and small spots on the posterior lateral 

 angles of the propodeum. The wings are more heavily infumated 

 than those of medea. 



Oi a male that I have determined as belonging to this species, I 

 submit the following description: Black: lateral borders of labrum; 

 ventro-lateral borders and median vertical stripe on clypeus; scape 

 below: vestiges of anterior and posterior orbits; very small lateral 

 spots on scutellum; very small lateral spots on dorsum of propodeum; 

 small spots on lateral angles of propodeum ; lateral spots on tergites 

 1-5 ; lateral spots on sternites 2-4 ; anterior lines on anterior femora 

 and tibiae ; posterior apical spot on middle and posterior femora : 

 yellow. 



The wings are more heavily infumated than in the case of heros 

 or medea. The lateral spines of the seventh tergite are more nearly 

 perfectly truncate than are those of viedea and are not hollowed out 

 at the apex as are those of heros. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Surinam: (Fruhstorfer). 



VENEzuBaA: Maturin (1898 — female, det Kohl), 



STICTIA SIGNATA (Linnaeus) 

 Figure 23 



V-mpa mt/nata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 574. 



Moneduld signatn Handlibsch, Sitz. Akad. Wisseu.sch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., 

 vol. f>9, 1890, p. S6.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1891, p. 49©.— 

 Handlirsch. Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien. Math.-Nat. CI., vol. 104. 1895, 

 p. 966. 



Stictia sUjnata Parker, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, 1917, p. 18. 



This species is one of the most common and most widely distributed 

 of the genus, having been reported from localities scattered through- 

 out South America, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies. 

 I have examined more than one hundred specimens of this species, 

 which may be distinguished from all other species of the genus by 



