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'Lateral abdominal spots yellowish; front narrow; upper angle of tliird antenna! joint prominent; 

 femora usually dark 26. fulviilus Wied. 



Lateral abdominal spots whitish ; front broad ; upper angle of third antenna! joint very shallow ; 

 L femora reddish 27. sagax n. sp. 



A distinct frontal callosity present 29. 



No frontal callosity 38. mexicanus Linn. 



J Both abdomen and palpi black 30. 



[ Either abdomen or palpi not black 35. 



Prevailing color of thorax and wings not black 31. 



I'revailing color of the whole body black 33, 



["Thorax dark brown above; wings subhyaline, with brown clouds on crossveins. 28. nigrescens Palisot. / 

 I Thorax densely clothed with white pollen or down 32. 



Front tibi» white at base 29. punctifer n. sp. 



Front tibia not white at base 30. stygius Say.^' 



Front unusually broad, callosity transverse 31. atratus Fab. 



Front not unusually broad, callosity not transverse 34. 



„. [Narrow portion of the third antennal joint not remarkably elongate . 32. Wiedemanni n. sp. 



' 1 Narrow portion, etc., remarkably elongate . 33. iugubris Macq. 



„, fAbdomen broadly red on the sides, black in the middle 36. 



' I Abdomen black or brown 37. 



Legs and jialpi pale reddish 34. rufus Palisot. 



Legs and palpi dark 35. Megerlei Wied. 



Wings hyaline, with a dark brown costal cell 36. americanus Forster. 



Wings uniformly brownish yellow 37. giganteus DeGeer. 



fAbdomen without white si>ots; front (?) without callosity 39. 



I Abdomen with three rows of white spots ; frontal callosity distinct 40. 



fPectus and pleurje yellowish 39. bicolor Wied. 



1 Pectus and pleura; gray 40. fulvescens Walk. 



fGray; third antennal joint not very deeply excised ^ 41. Reinwardtii Wied. 



40. I Light chocolate brown ; third antennal joint deeply excised, almost crescent-shaped 42. cerastes n. sp. 

 f Prevailing color of the body pure black or brown 42. 



41. ■( Prevailing color of the body grayish black or blackish gray; sides of the abdomen often reddish (large 



t group of northern species) 45. 



fAbdomen with conspicuous yellow crossbands. . .• 43. 



' [Abdomen without yellow crossbands 44. 



f Ante-alur tubercle black; the yellow abdominal crossbands consist of a narrow fringe of pale yellow 



. J hair 43. flavipes Wied. 



I Ante-alar tubercle reddish; yellow crossbands broad, fonned by yellow hair on a broad border of yel- 



l lowish pollen 44. zonalis Kirby. 



f Three first abdominal segments bright orange red, the rest black 45. cinctus Fabr. 



44. -i Abdomen with a white triangle on each of the segments two, three, four ; body of male brownish 



L black; of female grayish black (dark slate color) 46. trispilus Wied. 



fAbdomen with a conspicuous row of white triangles in the middle of the segments, but without lateral 

 I white spots (see No. 46, trispilus Wied., female). 

 Abdomen rufous on the sides, this color leaving only a narrow black stripe of the first three or four 



segments 46. 



Abdomen on eacli side with a conspicuous row of white or whitish spots; the rufous color less appar- 

 ent, or not existing 48. 



45.^ 



' If the species to be determined is from the far west (Col- (No. 54), the ocellar tubercle of which is often not denuded, 

 orado Mountains, etc.), compare at this place 2'. rhombicus and might be supposed wanting. 



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