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Texas: Cabnesneil (June 20, 1907, W, W. Yothers) ; Dallas (June 6, 1910, 

 E. G. Blasi) ; Jacksonville (June 28, 1906, F. C. Bishopp) ; Kerrville 

 (July 19, 1907, F. C. Pratt) ; Rosser (July 6, 1905, F. C. Bishopp) ; Vic- 

 toria (May 30, 1911, J. D. Mitchell). 



In addition to the localities listed above, the species has been 

 reported from Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, and 

 Pennsylvania. 



STICTIA MEXICANA (Handlirsch) 



• Figure 74 



Monedula mexicmia Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wisseusch. Wien, Math.-Nat. 

 CI., vol. 99, 1890, p. 107.— Dalla Toere, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1891, p. 498. 



Of the five males that I have referred to this species, four have 

 conspicuous discal lines, and lateral lines above the base of the wings, 

 on the scutum, but the fifth lacks the discal lines and the lateral 

 lines are much reduced. On this same fifth specimen the fascia 

 both on the scutellum*and on the metanotum is interrupted and the 

 fascia on the propodeum is almost obsolete while the maculations 

 on the mesopleura and metapleura are wholly wanting and those 

 on the lateral angles of the propodeum are reduced to small spots. 

 On all five the fascia on the third tergite is broken into lateral and 

 discal spots and on three of the five the fascia on the first tergite is 

 likewise broken into lateral and discal spots. 



Handlirsch described the species from two males from Mexico. 

 A female bearing the label, " Cuernavaca, 9, '23, Moi Mex., E. G. 

 Smyth," I regard as the female of this species. Its description is 

 as follows: Black — lateral borders of labrum; mandibles in part; 

 very narrow lateral spots on ventral border of clypeus; short anterior 

 orbits; very narrow posterior orbits; posterior border of pronotum, 

 almost obsolete ; posterior border of tubercle ; lateral spots on scutum 

 above base of wings; narrow and widely interrupted fascia on 

 scutellum; narrow, interrupted fascia on metanotum; fasciae on 

 tergites 1-3 broken into lateral and discal spots; fasciae on tergites 

 4 and 5 widely interrupted; lateral spots on sternit^s 2-4; narrow 

 line on anterior border of anterior tibia and tarsus and on anterior 

 border of middle tibia ; yellow. 



The scutellum is closely and evenly punctured throughout but 

 nowhere are the punctures of uniform size; the size and the number 

 of coarse punctures are greater, however, in the central area than on 

 any of the four margins. The eleventh segment of the antenna at 

 the middle on its posterior border bears a short rounded tooth, a 

 character that I should consider an abnormality did it not occur on 

 both antennae. Tlie infumation of the wings is somewhat heavier 



