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punctures and scattered larger punctures; propodeum with a median 

 basal tumid area which has a weak median longitudinal impression; 

 apical half of propodeum almost flat behind, with fine, very dense 

 punctures and very fine transverse wrinkles; subgenital plate semi- 

 circular, concave beneath. 



There are two subspecies, distinguished by the color of the tibiae as 

 noted in the key and the subspecific descriptions. 



Figure 153. — Localities for Ceropales bipunclata tibialis. 



7a. Ceropales bipunctata tibialis Banks 



Ceropales bipunctata var. tibialis Banks, 1910, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 



18, p. 126, cf , 9 . Lectotype: 9 , Southern Pines, N. C, June 20, 1906, 



A. H. Manee (Cambridge). 

 Ceropales floridensis Dreisbach, 1948, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 56, pp. 



233-238, "9"=cf (new sj-uonymy). Type: cf, Gainesville, Fla. (Ann 

 Arbor) . 



Black. Marked with creamy white as in the subspecies bipunctata; 

 wings deep black; legs rufous with the trochanters and joint regions 

 infuscate; thorax and head sometimes with rufous tinges. 



The name Ceropales floridensis is based on a specimen of this sub- 

 species with the white and rufous markings unusually extensive. 



Specimens: cf (type of floridensis) , Gainsville, Fla., May, 4, 1933, 

 Alexander and Walker (Ann Arbor). Scf, 19 (lectotype and para- 

 types of tibialis), Southern Pines, N. C, June 11, 1919, June 15, 1911, 

 June 20, 1906, and June 27, 1912, A. H. Manee (Cambridge). 9 , Horry 

 County, S. C, July 9, 1932, H. Townes (Tov.aies). 



This subspecies occurs in the Austroriparian fauna of North Caro- 

 lina, South Carolina, and southward into Florida. 



