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HYMENOPTERA. 



spot above, the labriim, mandibles, and orbits of the eyes, pale 

 yellow, the latter interrupted at the vertex ; the scape yellow^ 

 in front. Thorax : the posterior margin of the prothorax, a 

 spot on the scutellum and post-scutellum, another on the poste- 

 rior angles of the metathorax, the tubercles, a spot on each side 

 of the pectus, and the coxae in front, yellow ; the legs pale fer- 

 ruginous, the posterior pair full twice the length of the body ; 

 wings hyaline. Abdomen : a spot on each side of the first seg- 

 ment, a waved transverse line on the second, third and fourth, 

 which is slightly interrupted in the middle of the first two, and 

 which at the extreme lateral margins expands into an ovate 

 shape, yellow ; the fifth segment has a large subquadrate spot 

 in the middle, and the apical segment entirely yellow ; beneath 

 immaculate. 



Hab. Georgia. 



12. Ceropales bipunctata. B.M. 



Ceropales bipunctata. Say, Nar. Exped. St. Peter's River, Ap- 

 pend, p. 69. 3. 



Hab. United States. 



13. Ceropales ferruginea. 



Ceropales ferruginea, Say, Nar. Exped. St. Peter's River, Ap- 

 pend, p. 68. 2. 



Hab. N. America (United States). 



14. Ceropales interrupta. 



Ceropales interrupta. Say, Bost. Journ. i. 365. 1 . 

 Hab. IS. America (Indiana). 



15. Ceropales frigida. 



Ceropales fasciata, Say, Nar. Exped. St. Peter's River, Append. 

 p. 68. 1 (nee Fabr.). 



Hab. N. America (Missouri). 



16. Ceropales apicalis. B.M. 

 Ceropales apicalis. Say, Bost. Journ. i. 366. 2. 



Hab. N. America (Indiana) ; St. John's Bluff ; East Florida. 



17. Ceropales fraterna. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Black : the inner orbits of the 



