208 E. T. CRESSON. 



€eropaIe»$ bipnncf ata. 



Ceropales bipunctata. Say, Long's 2d Exped. ii. p. 334. 

 Five % $ specimens. (Belt'rage ; Boll.) 



Ceropales iiigripes. 



Ceropales nigripes, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 139. 

 One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Ceropales texana, n. sp. 



•^ . — Black, abdomen and leg sericeous; face, two spots on clypeus, snape 

 beneath, posterior nDargin of prothorax above, spot behind scutelluni, posterior 

 angles of rnetathorax, spot on each side of second abdominal segment and two 

 or three spots on apical segments, pale lemon-yellow; face silvery sericeous; 

 wings violaceous-black. Length .53 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



Ceropales elegaus. n. sp. 



9. — Large, pale ferruginous, with a strong silvery sericeous pile: face, 

 clypeus, broad anterior orbits, narrow posterior orbits, margins of prothorax, 

 broad behind, a spot on each side anteriorly, spot on scutellum and postscu- 

 telUim, apical angles of rnetathorax, anterior coxae beneath, line on posterior 

 pair, extreme tips of femora, and broad apical margins of abdominal segments, 

 those on two basal segments sinuate and uneven anteriorly, all citron-yellow; 

 tips of antennae blackish; mesothorax sparsely punctured, longitudinally de- 

 ])ressed on each side of disk, with an impressed longitudinal line over tegulaj ; 

 rnetathorax obliquely flattened behind, with a deeply impressed central line, 

 brilliantly silvery-sericeous; posterior legs very long, their eoxse subcom- 

 pressed, broadly dilated at base; wings yellow-hyaline, extreme tips dusky. 

 Length .55 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



Ceropales ftilvipes, n. sp. 



9. — Small, black, shining, covered with a more or less obvious silvery- 

 sericeous pile; clypeus, broad anterior orbits, dilated above, narrow posterior 

 orbits, scape beneath, posterior margin of prothorax, a spot on each side an- 

 teriorly, tegulse, spot on scutellum and on postscutellum, apical angles of rneta- 

 thorax, four anterior coxse beneath, posterior pair at tips and on outer side, 

 four anterior knees before, anterior margins of abdominal segments 1 — 5, broad 

 on first and second the anterior margins of which are uneven, narrow on re- 

 maining segments, sinuate laterally, all pale lemon-yellow; labrum testaceous 

 and mandibles reddish toward tips; wings yellowish-hyaline, paler at tips; 

 legs fulvous, posterior pair not unusually long, all the coxis black at base, pos- 

 terior pair broad at base, fulvous beneath ; abdomen short, robust, apical seg- 

 ment pearly-white; venter and antennse beneath brownish. Length .35 inch. 

 Two specimens on Solidago flowers in October. (Belfrage.) Allied 

 to longipes, Smith. 



Jf ygniniia nstnlata. 



Hemipepsis ustulata, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i., p. 12S. 



Five % 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



