PHILANTHUS ZONATUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black; front, two lines on the thorax and 

 posterior submargins of the segments of the 

 tergum, yellow ; feet rufous. 



SYNONYM. 



P. ZONATUS. Nobis. Western Quarterly Re- 

 porter^ vol. ii. p. 79. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body above black : front yellow, with two 

 black lines descending from the black vertex 

 to the origin of the antennae ; antennae, and 

 mandibles rufous, black at tip ; base of the head 

 rufous : thorax^ first segment and sculel, each 

 with a yellow line ; a large rufous spot each 

 side behind the scutel : superior wings with a 

 dusky margin towards the tip; costal nervure 

 dull rufous in the middle ; radial cellule rounded 

 at tip, and at its inferior edge descending in an 



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