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Euparagia scutellaris Cresson 



Figures 1, 2, 11, 14, 26, 27, 42, 68-74, 93, 100 



1879. Euparagia scuiellaris Cresson, (^, 5- Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 Eiit. See., vol. 6, p. vi. 



J'. Stout, form somewhat Oxybelus-like. Black, the following parts 

 amber yellow : cl.ypeus except borders, mandibles except base and apex, 

 spot at summit of each eye, dorsal surface of pronotum, except postero- 

 lateral margins, tubercles, tegulae at base and at apex, spot in front 

 of scutellum, large pentagonal spot at apex of scutellum-, claw on front 

 trochanter, apical third of anterior and tips of middle and posterior 

 femora, tibiae except for irregular reddish and brown blotches, meta- 

 tarsi, apical border of dorsal segments 1 to 6 laterally dilated, and on 

 segments 2 to 6 also medially dilated, and a median spot on each of 

 ventral segments 2 to 7 ; the four apical segments of all tarsi reddish 

 brown ; flagellum except base of 1st segment, reddish brown, cream 

 colored beneath. Head and thorax silvery sericeous, mesotergum 

 brown-sericeous, abdomen someAvhat yellowish sericeous toward the 

 apex. 



Head closely, clypeus more sparsely, regularly and rather coarsely 

 punctulate ; dorsum similarly sculptured ; scutellum with a longitud- 

 inal fossa on each side ; pleurae more finely and sparsely punctured 

 than the dorsum ; propodeum with a median channel, shallowly ru- 

 gosely punctate ; the postero-lateral angles forming a ridge but not 

 carinate. Length, 7 mm. 



5. Colored as in male except that the entire head, except spot above 

 each eye, the antennae, legs, except knees and venter, are black, the 

 mandibles piceous. The clypeus is longitudinally aciculate. Other- 

 Avise like the male. 



Nevada : 2 J*, 2 $ [types, American Entomological Society] . 



California: Claremont, 3 J*, 1 5 (C. F. Baker), [Pomona College. 

 Cornell Universitv, Jos. Bequaert] ; mountains near Claremont. 1 J* 

 (C. F. Baker), [Pomona College] ; Santa Clara Co. (C. F. Baker), 

 [Cornell Univ.] ; Sobre Vista, Sonoma Co., 1 $, May 12, 1910 (J. A. 

 Kusche), [Calif. Acad. Sci.]. 



Plesiozethus Cameron 



?1901. Parainasaris Cameron. Transactions of the American Entomolog- 

 ical Society, vol. 27, p. 312. 



1904. Zethoides Cameron. Transactions of the American Entomological 



Society, vol. 30, p. 93 (not Fox). 



1905. PIesiozetliii3 Cameron. Entomologist, vol. 38, p. 269. 



1906. Metazetlwides Schulz. Spolia hymenopterologica, p. 21:1. 



1907. Flesiosethus Cameron. Entomologist, vol. 40, p. 62. 



1912. Flesiosethus Zavattari. Arehiv fiir Naturgeschichte, vol. 78, pt. A, 

 no. 2, p. 62. 



