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Figure 147. — Localities for Ceropales robinsonii rohinsonii. 



Ceropales superha Provancher, 1883, Naturaliste Canadieii, vol. 14, p. 35 (Faune, 



p. 810), 9. Type: 9, Toronto, Ontario (Ottawa). 

 Biology: Walsh and Riley, 1869, Amer. Ent., vol. 1, pp. 136, 163. 



Forewing of male 6 to 7.5 mm. long, of female 7.5 to 9 mm. long. 

 Head and thorax black; abdomen and legs rufous. Face (except a 

 small area below antennal tubercle in the female), clypeus (except for 

 a median brownish spot in the female), side 0.2 of frons, antennal 

 tubercle, moderately wide postorbital mark, labrum, outer face of 

 mandible, underside of scape and pedicel, under side of basal flagellar 

 segment of male, anterior callus and hind margin of pronotum, usually 

 a small median spot on mesoscutum of male, small median spot on 

 scutelium of male and sometimes of female, postscutellum, hind corner 

 of thorax, underside of front coxa, apical outer spots on middle and 

 hind coxae (sm^aller and less distinct in the female), dorsal side of 

 front tibia, apical marks on outer side of femora and basal and apical 

 marks on tibiae (these are less extensive and distinct on hind legs 

 and on all legs of female), a small sublateral subapical spot on second 

 tergite of male, and sometimes a smaller similar spot on third tergite 

 of male, light yellow; tarsi yelloAvish, fulvous apically, the second to 

 fom'th segments of hind tarsus narrowl}^ blackish at the base; apical 

 abdominal segment with a median apical obscurel}^ yellowish area; 

 palpi and tegula light brown; front coxa dark brown (except where 

 noted as yellow); middle and hind coxae brownish at the base; tarsi 

 yellowish, rufescent apicall}^; wings subh3^aline in small males, in 

 females and in larger males brown with an apical paler area in the 

 forewing; flagellmn blackish except for a yellow mark on the underside 

 of basal segment in the male. 



Specimens: 9, Gainesville, Fia., May 18, 1928, Alexander and 

 Walker (Ann Arbor). 9, Tifton, Ga., May 18, 1896 (Washington), 

 cf , 9, Tifton, Ga. (Washington). 9, Tifton, Ga., F. A. Eddy (Cam- 



