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BICYRTES FODIENS (Haadlirscb) 



Figure 38 



Bemhidula foddens Handliksch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., 



vol. 98, 1889, p. 497.— Dalla Torbb, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 495. 

 Bicyrtes fodiens Parkesi, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, 1917, p. 60. 



This species and the one following {hwrneisteri) are distinguished 

 from all others of the genus known to me by the presence of a tooth 

 on the inner apical margin of the posterior coxa. The female of this 

 species may be distinguished from the female of Imrnieisteri by the 

 color of the sixth tergite, which is black on fodiens and yellow on 

 hurmeisteri. The form of the sixth tergite is shown in Figure 38. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Geobgia: Spring Creek, Decatur County (July 16, 1912). 



Louisiana: East Point (September 5, 1907, F. C. Bishopp) ; New Orleans (Ed 



Foster). 

 Mississippi: Utica (Ashmead). 

 MissoxjRi: St. Louis (Rau). 

 Texas: Calvert (June 27, 1907, F. C. Bishopp). 



BICYRTES BURMEISTERI (Handlirsch) 



BemNdula durmeisteri Handlirsch, Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien. Math.-Nat. 



CI., vol. 98, 1889, p. 500.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 494. 

 Bicyrtes hurmeisteri Parker, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, 1917, p. 62. 



I have before me three females that I have referred to this species, 

 all of which vary somewhat from Handlirsch's description of the 

 species. But, since the original description was made from, a single 

 specimen, some variation from the description is to be expected. No 

 specimen has any maculation on the mesopleura. All have narrow 

 apical fasciae joining the lateral spots on the sternit^s. One (from 

 Texas) has the scape wholly yellow. Of the other two (from Mexico) 

 one has a well-developed, curved fascia on the propodeum, while the 

 other has no trace of such a fascia. The specimen from Texas and 

 one of the two from Mexico have conspicuous lateral spots and a pair 

 of small discal spots on the first tergite, whereas the second one from 

 Mexico has the first tergite wholly black. This specimen and the one 

 from Texas have the wings but slightly infumated but the other 

 Mexican specimen has the wings almost as heavily infumated as are 

 the wings of fodiens. So far as I am aware, the male of this species 

 has not been described. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Mexico: Guadalajara (July 5, 1903, McClendon). 

 Texas: Brownsville (September 29, 1906, J. C. Crawford). 



