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Figures 41-43. — Localities of: 41, C. flavofasciata flavofasciata H. S. Smith; 42, C. flavofas- 

 ciata floridensij Banks; 43, C. mandibularis Patten. 



Arkansas: 9 > Hot Springs, Oct. 6 (Andreas Bolter). Illinois: 9 Hanna 

 City, July 21, 1940. Iowa: 9, Sioux City, Aug. 10, 1917 (A. W. Lindsay). 

 Kansas: 3 9 9, Baldwin Co., July 8, Aug. 1, 1906 (J. C. Bridwell) ; 9, Black 

 Jack Creek, Pottawatomie Co., July 2, 1953 (Evans and party) ; 9 , Black Jack 

 Creek, July 9, 1959 (H. E. and M. A. Evans); 9, Lawence, June 18, 1922 

 (C. H. Curran) ; 9 , Marshall Co., June 30, 1950 (R. L. Fischer) ; 9 , Pottawato- 

 mie Co., July 25, 1952 (H. E. Evans); 39 9, Riley Co., July 12, (J. B. Norton); 

 29 9, Riley Co., July 23 (Popenoe); 9 , Saline Co., July 16, 1923, (L. C. Wood- 

 ruflf). Minnesota: cf, Lake City, July 7, 1921 (A. A. Nichol). Nebraska: 9, 

 Lincoln, July; cf. North Bend, June 30, 1915 (E. G. Anderson). Nebraska: 

 Child's Point, Lincoln, Maskell, Monroe Canyon, Omaha, Rulo, and South Bend, 

 June 30 to Aug. 20, 1917a, on flowers of Melilotus alba, Ceanothus americanus, 

 and Amorpha canescens (all by Mickel). New Jersey: 9, Camden, July 12, 

 1891 (Wm. J. Fox); 2 9 9, 5 mi. W. Lake Wood, Ocean Co., Sept. 6, 1954 (G. 

 Ferguson); 9, Lebanon State Forest, Burlington Co., Aug. 19, 1958 (Evans, 

 Beneway); 9, Lucaston, Sept. 9, 1906. North Carolina: 9, Bastic, July 7, 

 1921 (T. B. Mitchell); 15,9 9 lOd'd', Kill Devil Hills, Dare Co., July 31, Aug. 

 1, 3, 1952, July 26, 1955, Aug. 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 1958 (K. V. Krombein) ; d", Kill Devil 

 Hills, Aug. 7, 1958 (T. B. Mitchell). Oklahoma: 9 , Pawnee Co., July 12, 1932 

 (Deonier, Pritchard). South Dakota: d^, Hot Springs, July 12, 1924 (R. C. 

 Severin). Virginia: 9, Camp Peary, Sept. 7, 1943 (G. E. and R. M. Bohart). 

 Maryland: 9, 30 mi. S. Washington, D.C., July 7, 1931 (J. C. Bridwell). 



Prey record. — Cryptocephalus guttulatus Oliver, C. notatus Fab- 

 ricius, C. notatus fulvipennis Hald (all from Baldwin, Kansas). 

 Krombein (1959, pp. 197-198), who studied the biology of this wasp 

 at Kill Devil Hills, N.C., found Cerceris flavofasciata H. S. Smith 

 collecting the following chrysomelids : Chlamisus sp. (probably plicata 

 (Fabricius)), Cryptocephalus mutabilis Melsheimer, Cryptocephalus gut- 

 tulatus Oliver, Cryptocephalus sp. (probably guadrimaculatus Say), 

 Bassareus clathratus (Melsheimer), and Bassareus sp. (probably sellatus 

 Suffrian). 



Plant record. — Amorpha canecens (Nebraska), Ceanothus ameri- 

 canus (Nebraska), Melilotus alba (Nebraska). 



