REVISION OF GENTJS EUCERCERIS CRESSON 73 



Abdomen with background and depressed areas black to ferruginous 

 with a broad emarginate band on terga 1 and 6, divided bands on 

 terga 2, 3, 4, and 5, a divided small patch on sternum 2, an irregular 

 small baud on sternum 3 and a broken band on sternum 4, all of 

 which are yellow; wide bands of long bristles on sterna 3 and 4, a 

 short band of closely appressed short bristles on sternum 5; pygidium 

 as illustrated (fig. 97c). 



Female. — Unknown. 



The male of E. zimapanensis Scullen superficially looks very much 

 like the male of E. mellea Scullen but the latter has only a single 

 small divided cluster of bristles on sternum 5. 



Type. — The d^ type of E. zimapanensis Scullen was taken 9 mi. 

 N. of Ojo Cahente, Zac, Mexico, May 12, 1962 (F. D. Parker). It 

 is deposited at the Cahfornia Academy of Sciences. 



Pabatypes.— INIEXICO: &, 9 mi. N. Ojo Caliente, Zac, May 19, 1962 (F. 

 D. Parker); 2crc?', Zimapan, Hdgo., June 11-14, 1951 at Eysenhardtia 

 polystachya (Ort.) . 



Distribution. — Known only from the type locaUty and from 

 Zimapan, Hdgo. 



Prey record. — None. 



Plant record. — Eysenhardtia polystachya. (Ort.). 



40. Eucerceris zonata (Say) 



Figures 48, 98 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h 



Philanthus zonata Say, 1823, p. 80. cf ; 1828, pi. xlix.— LeConte, 1883, vol. I, pp. 



111-112, 167. 

 Eucerceris zonata Cresson, 1865, pp. 105-107. — Packard, 1866, p. 58. — Cresson, 



1872, p. 227.— Patton, 1880, p. 398.— Cresson, 1882, pp. vi-vii; 1887, p. 



281.— Robertson, 1892, pp. 104, 107; 1894, pp. 453-455, 458, 460; 1896, p. 



73.— Ashmead, 1899, p. 295.— Smith, John B., 1900, p. 519.— Viereck and 



Cockerell, 1904, pp. 85, 88-— Smith, John B., 1910, p. 678.— Mickel, 1917, 



pp. 454, 456.— Washburn, 1919, p. 219, pi. 2, fig. 8.— Britton, 1920, p. 341.— 



Robertson, 1928, pp. 13, 24, 55, 68, 70-72, 90, 92, 107, 115, 120, 122, 123, 



153-155, 195, 198.— Scullen, 1939, pp. 18, 40-43, figs. 26, 44, 67, 84, 100, 



116, 130, 147; 1948, pp. 156, 158; 1951, p. 1013. 

 Eucerceris laticeps Cresson, 1865, pp. 107-108, cf , 9 . — Packard, 1866, pp. 58- 



59.— Patton, 1879, p. 357.— Cresson, 1887, p. 281.— Ashmead, 1899, p. 



295.— Smith, John B., 1900, p. 519; 1910, p. 678.— Leonard, 1928, p. 1017.— 



Cresson, 1916, p. 100. 

 Cerceris zonata Schletterer, 1887, p. 506.— Dalla Torre, K. W. von, 1890, p. 200.— 



Dalla Torre, C. G., 1897, p. 481. 

 Cerceris laticeps Schletterer, 1887, p. 495.— Dalla Torre, C. G., 1897, p. 466. 

 Eucerceris zonata var. laticeps Cresson, 1882, p. vii. — Smith, Harry S., 1908, pp. 



371,372. 



Types. — The neotype female of E. zonata (Say) from lUinois is in the 

 collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. The holo- 



