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CEROPALES Lat. 



1. C. INTERRUPTA. — Black, spotted and banded with yellow ; 

 irings dusky; antennae and feet honey -yellow ; tarsi yellow. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Antennae honey-yellow; first joint, bright-yellow: labrum yel- 

 low, black at base : hypostoma yellow, with a quadrate spot and 

 incisures black: orbits dilated, yellow, interrupted above: tho- 

 rax impunctured ; margin of the anterior segment all around, 

 longitudinal spot each side of the scutel and transverse spot be- 

 hind the scutel, yellow : metathorax at tip bifasciate with yel- 

 low, posterior band clavate each side on the pleura : wings fuli- 

 (►•inous, particularly on the cubital cellules and tip : abdomen fer- 

 ruginous, varied with obsolete yellow and black bands ; and with 

 two yellowish spots on the first segment : pleura with a spot be- 

 hind the wings and a larger one over the intermediate feet, yel- 

 low : coxae varied with yellow : thighs honey-yellow, black at 

 base : tibiae honey-yellow, yellow at base : tarsi yellow. 



Length two-fifths of an inch. 



Closely allied to fasc lata nob. but the thorax is not distinctly 

 punctured, the wings are dusky, &c. [366] 



2. C. APiCALis. — Black; wings black at tip; abdomen with a 

 rufous band ; tip white. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : hypostoma hoary : collar on the posterior margin 

 white : wings hyaline with a fuliginous tip, in which is an ob- 

 solete hyaline spot or band : metathorax dull silvery ; abdomen 

 rather slender towards the base ; second segment, excepting on 

 its posterior margin, fulvous ; anal segment white : posterior 

 tibiae with a white line on the posterior side : intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi with the second, third and fourth joints white, 

 with black tips. 



Length over two-fifths of an inch. 



CHLORION Latr. 

 C. CANALicuLATUM nob. {Ampulex) Western Quarterly Re- 

 porter, vol. ii. p. 76. 



The name Ohlorion has priority over that of Ampulex given 



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