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SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Argentina: Mendoza (December 14, 1906, H. Rolle Berlin W.). 

 Handlirsch reports this species also from Philipi, Chile. 



STICTIA DIVES (Handlirsch) 



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

 99, 1890, p. 106.— Dali.a Torkb, Cat Hym., vol. 8, 1891, p. 497. 



I have before me a single male specimen that I have referred to 

 this species. Unfortunately it bears no locality label. It has a pair 

 of small medial black spots on the clypeiis and a short median black 

 stripe at the apex of the labrum. In other respects the coloration of 

 this specimen fits very accurately the description of the male of the 

 species given by Handlirsch. The excavation on the sixth segment of 

 the flagellum is a little more prominent than in the case of decorata, 

 and, as in the case of that species, this segment bears a distinct spine 

 on the distal margin below. The lateral spines on the seventh tergite 

 are distinctly and almost squarely truncate. 



Handlirsch described the species from specimens from Mexico. 



STICTIA CAROLINA (Fabricius) 



Figure 24 



Bembex Carolina Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. 2, 1793, p. 249. 



Stictia Carolina Illiger, Mag. f. Ins., vol. 6, 1807, p. 195. 



Mo-nedula Carolina LEPEa^ETiEiR, Hist. Nat. Hym., vol. 3, 184-5, p. 281. — Hand- 

 lirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., vol. 99, 1890, p. 110.— 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1891. p. 497. 



With the exception of a single specimen of Stictia signata taken in 

 California (D. W. Coquillett). this large and handsome species is the 

 only one of the genus to occur within the bounds of the United 

 States, and, so far as I am aware, it has not been found without them, 

 although it is highly probable that it will be found in Mexico. Its 

 large size, black thorax sparsely maculated or not at all, and the 

 broad, bright, creamy maculations of the abdomen render this species 

 easy of identification. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Alabama: Booth (June 15, 1924, E. S. Holt) ; Montgomery (T. J. Key). 

 Florida: Apalachicola (July, 1909, J. C. Bradley) ; Fernandina (W. H. Finn) ; 



Jacksonville (Ashmead) ; Palm (C. F. Baker). 

 Georgia: Egypt (W. H. Finn). 

 Louisiana: Houma (August 6, 1911, B. C. Wurzlow) ; Lee Post OflSce (June 



29, 1896, D. W. Eavens). 

 Maryland: Chesapeake Beach (July 26, 1912, William Palmer). 

 Oklahoma: Ardmore (June 26, C. R. Jones). 



