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the above denticles; a slight medial depression extending from the 

 clypeal margin about two-thirds of the way to the epistomal suture; 

 mandibles somewhat sinuate but without distinct denticles; antennal 

 scape slightly inflated with a yellow patch in front, flagellum dark 

 fuscous with the terminal segment strongly bent. 



Thorax black except for two patches on the pronotum, the metano- 

 tum, two small patches on the propodeum, and the tegulae, all of 

 which are yellow; enclosure ridged parallel to the meson; mesosternal 

 tubercles absent; legs light ferruginous with large yellow areas on 

 most segments beyond the trochanter; wings subhyaline. 



Abdomen black and yellow; tergum 1 with large lateral yellow 

 patches; terga 2 to 6 with subequal broad yellow bands emarginate 

 with black anteriorly; venter dark fuscous with lateral yellow patches 

 on sternites 2, 3, and 4. Both sexes may show more or less dark 

 ferruginous or fuscous areas on the vertex, the genae of the head, and 

 the scutellum of the thorax. 



Types.— Say's original male type has been lost. A neotype male, 

 from Colorado, designated by the present wi'iter, is deposited at the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, no. 5041. The type fe- 

 male of C. hiungulata Cresson, from the Rocky Mts., Colorado 

 (Riding), is at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, no. 1956. 

 The type male of C. orphne Banks, from Jemez Springs, N. Mex., 

 July 2 (Englehardt), is at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Harvard, no. 23536. 



Distribution. — Through the South Central States, from Nebraska 

 and Colorado south to Arizona, Specimens are as follows: 



Arizona: ?, at base of Humphi-ey's Peak, 9500 ft., August (Snow); 9, 

 Navajo Mts., Navajo Co., July 13, 1933 (Stanley Bee) ; 9 , Rainbow Lodge, 

 Navajo Mts., Coconino Co., 6500 ft., July 15, 1933 (Stanley Bee) ; 9 , Oak Creek 

 Canyon, 6000 ft., (F. H. Snow) ; 2 9 9 , Rainbow Lodge. Colorado: 9 , Berkley, 

 June 3; 9, "Colorado" (C. F. Baker); 9, Meeker, 6200 ft., July 20-21, 1919; 

 9, Pleasant Valley, Aug. 19, 1906. Kansas: 2 0^0^, Greeley Co. New Mex- 

 ico: 9, Koehler (W. R. Walton). Utah: 9, Boulder, Sept. 11, 1949 (C. J. 

 Stewart). Wyoming: 9, Cheyenne, Aug. 23, 1931; 9, Lander, July 22, 1953 

 (R. R. Dreisbach). 



Prey records. — None. 

 Plant record. — None. 



70. Cerceris stigmosalis Banks 



Figures 95, I75a,b,c 



Cerceris stigmosalis Banks, 1916, p. 64. — Stevens, 1917, p. 422. — ScuUen, 1951. 



p. 1010; 1960, p. 79. 

 Cerceris fugalrix Mickel, 1917a, pp. 335, 336; 1917b, p. 452.— ScuUen, 1951, p. 1008. 

 Cerceris sayi Banks, 1923, p. 21.— Scullen, 1951, p. 1008. 

 Cerceris stevensi Banks, 1923, p. 22. — Scullen, 1951, p. 1008. 



