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metapleurum separated from propodeum basally by a carina, the 

 carina fading out just before reaching transverse carina; median 

 longitudinal carinae of propodeum moderately strong, reaching base 

 of propodeum ; lateral longitudinal carinae vestigial ; apical transverse 

 carina moderately strong, dipped at juncture with strong carina 

 bounding petiolar area laterally; first tergite about 2.0 as long as 

 wide, its dorsal carinae fading out just in front of spiracle; ovipositor 

 sheath about 1.25 as long as hind femur. 



Figures 162, 163. — Localities: 162 (left), Theronia seplemtrionalis; 163 (right), 



T. bicincta floridana. 



Head yellow, a dusky band connecting lateral ocellus with eye, and 

 vertex with a ferruginous mark just above occipital carina; flagellum 

 ferruginous; thorax yellow, with three long ferruginous stripes on 

 mesoscutum, short line above tegula, groove at base of scutellum, 

 area surrounding postscutellum, stripe on upper two-thirds of hind 

 margin of pronotum, stripe along front edge of mesopleurum, band 

 from just above middle coxa across base of propodeum, stripe along 

 lower half of mesopleural suture, and band on hind end of metapleurum 

 and propodeum, blackish; front and middle legs yellow, varied with 

 pale fulvous; hind legs fulvous and ferruginous, with trochanters, 

 basal three segments of tarsus, and part of coxa, yellow; color of first 

 three abdominal tergites variable, according to the subspecies; fourth 

 and following tergites brownish ferruginous; ovipositor sheath yellow 

 on basal 0.45 ± shading to black at apex; wings strongly tinged with 

 orange brown, apically a little infuscate. 



There is a Floridian and a Cuban subspecies, distinguished mainly 

 on the color of the third abdominal tergite: 



1. Third tergite almost uniformly reddish brown; range: Cuba. 



4a. bicincta bicincta (Cresson) 

 Third tergite light reddish brown on its basal 0.4, the rest yellow; range: 



Georgia and Florida 4b. bicincta floridana, new subspecies 



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