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mouth parts yellow; antenna blackish, the scape and pedicel beneath, 

 broad postmedian band on flagellum, and flagellum beneath basad 

 of its band, yellow, the apical 13 ± segments entirely black; thorax 

 blackish, the lower edge of propleurum, irregularly broad antero- 

 ventral margin of pronotum, extreme hind corner of pronotum, tegula, 

 subtegular ridge, usually a narrow stripe on mesosternum next to 

 sternaulus, mesoscutum laterally and near notauli, scutellum, post- 

 scutellum, and posterior 0.5 ± of propodeum, yellow; front and 

 middle legs yellow, the extreme bases of their coxae blackish brown; 

 hind coxa blackish, yellow below and often with ferruginous areas 

 above; hind trochanters and tarsus yellow; hind femur fulvous, its 

 front face more or less yellowish, its extreme base brown, and some- 

 times with a small subapical area weakly infuscate; hind tibia yellow 

 to pale fidvous, a little paler basally, its apex sometimes tinged with 

 brown; abdomen blackish brown basally, fulvous brown apically, 

 each tergite with a broad, almost apical yellowish fulvous band, the 

 ventral part of abdomen yellowish fulvous; wings subhyaline, the 

 front wing with a large, subcircular, fuscous spot in its apex and 

 sometimes with a very faint infuscation over base of radial vein. 



Figure 280. —Localities for 

 Spilopleron vicinum vicinum. 



Female: Head blackish brown, the face except for a sublateral 

 vertical brown stripe, the frontal orbit, the lower 0.7 ± of temple, 

 cheek except for a median brownish area, clypeus, and mouth parts, 

 brownish yellow; antenna blackish, the scape and pedicel yellowish 

 brown beneath, basal part of flagellum yellowish beneath, and flagellum 

 with a broad postmedian yellow band, its apical 13 ± segments black; 

 thorax black, the propleurum brownish with its lower margin yellow- 

 ish, pronotum dark brown with light brown near its upper and lower 

 edges, mesoscutum light brown with its three lobes medially dark 

 brown, tegula yellow, subtegular ridge yellow, scutellum and post- 

 scutellum yellow, and apical 0.5 ± of propodeum yellow; coxae brown- 



