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3. Ceropales longipes Smith 



Ceropales fasciata Say, 1824, in Keating, Narrative of an expedition to the source of 

 St. Peter's River . . . , etc., vol. 2 (appendix), p. 333 (Leconte edition, 

 vol. 1, p. 224) (name preoccupied by Fabricius 1793). Type: cT, Missouri 

 (destroyed) . 



Ceropales longipes Smith, 1855, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the 

 . . . British Museum, pt. 3, 179, ?. Type: 9, Georgia (London). 



Ceropales frigida Smith, 1855. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the 

 . . . British Museum, pt. 3, p. 180 (new name for C. fasciata Say). 



Forewing of male 7 to 8 mm. long, of female 8 to 10 mm. long; frons, 

 mesoscutum, and mesoplem-on with dense small punctm-es and 

 scattered very large punctm*es; propodeum rather flat behind, but 

 with a weak subbasal swelling which is divided by a longitudinal 

 gi'oove and a basal impressed triangular area ; median apical portion of 

 propodeum with fine, completely irregular ^^Tinkles which give it a 



Figure 146. — Localities for Ceropales longipes. 



coarsely granular appearance; male subgenital plate broadly lanceolate 

 with a blunt tip, a narrow whitish margin, and the rest of the lower 

 surface dusky fulvous, darkest toward the median accessory triangular 

 piece which is whitish with a darker center. The details of the sub- 

 genital plate are specifically diagnostic. 



Black. Face (except small area below antennal tubercle of female), 

 clypeus, side 0.25 of frons, antennal tubercle, narrow postorbital stripe, 

 labrum, outer face of mandible, palpi, underside of scape and pedicel, 

 anterior callus and hind margin of pronotum, more or less of tegula, 

 small median longitudinal mark on mesoscutum, central spot on scutel- 

 lum, postscutellum, triangular spot on mesopleuron next to its coxa, 

 spot on hind corner of thorax elongated as short stripe along pleuro- 

 propodeal suture, adjacent spot on propodeum, underside of fore and 

 middle coxae, apical spot beneath and connecting lateral stripe on 

 hind coxa, sometimes the apical margins of trochanters, apical spots 

 on femora (smaller and less distinct in the female), apical and basal 



