NO. 2173. A REVISION OF THE B EM B WINE WASPS— PARKER. 9 9 



tibiae, except stripe, of greater or less extent below, and tarsi, ligM 

 yellow or greenish white. 



Length. — 14-17 mm. 



The wings in both sexes are hyaline and the nerviires brown. The 

 pubescence is white, relatively short and tolerably dense on head, 

 thorax and base of abdomen; on the remaining segments of the 

 abdomen it is c[iiite short. The punctation in both sexes is of the 

 usual character. 



Habitat. — Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, 

 North Carohna, West Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Long Island, Connecticut, 

 Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ontario, Ohio, In- 

 diana, Michigan, Ihinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota. 



Number of specimens examined — Males, 41; females, 83. 



BEMBEX CAMERONI Rohwer. 



Figs. 161, 162, 195. 

 Bembyx cameroni Rohwer, Proc. XJ. S. Nat. Miis., vol. 41, 1912, p. 467. 



Male. — ^Black: Labrum, mandibles except apices, clypeus, scape 

 below, very broad anterior orbits abbreviated above, space between 

 insertions of antennae prolonged upward, spot below anterior ocellus, 

 line on posterior border of pronotum, tubercles, sides of prothorax 

 in part, spot on t«gTilae, smaU lateral spots on scutum at base of 

 anterior wing, broad fasciae on tergites 1-6, first narrowly inter- 

 rupted medially, second, third, and fom'th biemarginate dorsaUy and 

 sinuate laterally on anterior margin and on posterior margin acutely 

 emarginate medially, fifth and sixth but shghtly emarginate or 

 sinuate, small spot on apex of seventh, lateral spots on sternites 2-5, 

 the greater part of the femora distaUy, tibiae except spot below on 

 anterior pair, and tarsi, yellow. 



The middle femora are dentate and the antennae are spinose on the 

 posterior border of segments 5-9. The second stemite bears a 

 prominent hooked process and the sixth a somewhat short, broad, 

 roundly pointed process whose ventral surface distaUy is slightly 

 concave, presenting a spoon-shaped appearance. The spot before the 

 anterior ocellus is wanting on some specimens, and the line on the 

 pronotum consists of spots. On some specimens the scutellum bears 

 small lateral spots and lateral spots may occur on the sixth stemite. 



Female. — Black: Labmm, mandibles except apices, clypeus, scape 

 below, broad anterior orbits shortened above, space between antennae, 

 line on posterior border of pronotum tubercles, sides of the prothorax 

 in part, spot on tegiilae, short lateral hne on scutum at base of wings, 

 lateral spots on scutellum, fasciae on tergites 1-5, first interrupted, 

 second, third, and fourth biemarginate dorsaUy and somewhat sinuate 



