ceropalinae: tribe ceropalini 



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111., Nov. 1912, G. N. Wolcott (Washington). 9, Toledo, 111., Harvey 

 (Lawrence). 9, Douglas County, Kans., F. H. Snow (Ithaca). 46^, 

 29, on flowers of Melilotus alba, Marshall County, Kans., July 6, 12, 

 24, and 26, 1950, R. L. Fischer (Evans and Townes). 29, Onaga, 

 Kans., Crevecoeur (Manhattan). 9 (type), College Park, Md. 

 (Philadelphia), d', Southern Pines, N. C, June 15, 1910, A. H. 

 Manee (Cambridge). 



This subspecies occurs in the Carolinian and Austroriparian faunas. 



Figure 151. — Localities for Ceropales elegans quaintancei. 



6. Ceropales nigripes Cresson 



Ceropales nigripes Cresson, 1867, Trans. Amer. Ent. See, vol. 1, p. 139, 9 . 



Type: 9, "Dakota" (Philadelphia). 

 Ceropales texana Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 208, cf. Type: 



cf , Texas (Washington). 



Forewing of male 9 to 14 mm. long, of female 11 to 16 mm. long; 

 structure similar to that of C. bipunctata except that the propodeum 

 usually lacks the fine transverse wrinkling and for small differences in 

 the male genitalia. 



Black. Male with face, clypeus, labrum, lower lateral part of frons, 

 antennal tubercle, spot on underside of scape and of pedicel, broad 

 band on hind margin of pronotum, sometimes a small spot on scutel- 

 lum, postscutellmn, small spot above hind coxa, rarely a small spot on 

 apex of hind coxa in front, large oblong lateral spot on first tergite, 

 usually one or several small median apical spots on fifth tergite, large 

 median spot on sixth tergite and most of seventh tergite, white. The 

 labrum may have a brownish median spot or may be dark with only 

 its sides white. Female with frontal orbit, sometimes a lateral spot 

 on clypeus, spot on postscutellum, and small spot above hind coxa, 

 white. Wings of both sexes deep black. 



