1912] North American Scolune 335: 
scutellums with large, deep, scattered punctures; metathorax short, 
broad, more finely punctured than the rest of the thorax, abruptly 
truncate and somewhat concave behind. Wings: the superior pair 
deep yellowish-hyaline, the apical margin broadly fuliginous with a 
beautiful violaceous reflection; beyond the marginal cell a broad black- 
ish cloud extending to the tip of the wing; nervures honey-yellow; 
posterior wings fuliginous, with a purplish reflection, the base sub- 
hyaline. Legs ferruginous, with golden-yellow pubescence, the tibiz 
tuberculate above, the tarsi spinose. Abdomen sparsely punctured, 
faintly iridescent; on each side of the four basal segments above, a 
rounded luteous spot; sometimes slightly confluent; the spots on the 
first and fourth segments smallest, and when confluent, they form a 
rather broad transverse band; those on the second and third segments 
are large, the former round and the latter rather transverse; all the 
segments densely fringed with fulvous pubescence; the ‘apical segment 
densely clothed with dense, prostrate, fulvous pubescence; venter paler 
ferruginous, the second and third segments obsoletely stained with 
obscure luteous, the basal segments deeply contracted. Length 8 lines; 
expanse of wings 131% lines. 
Two specimens.”’ 
The writer has before him three specimens, one marked type 565-2 
and has carefully studied four other specimens at Philadelphia, all 
females. These agree well with the description except the marking 
described as luteous which the writer would prefer to term yellow. The 
costal, subcostal and basal nervures of the front wings are ferruginous. 
The rest of the nervures except the subdiscoidal nervure which is bluish, 
are yellow. The parts of the fore wing not inclosed within the cells 
are slightly fuliginous with a much darker area reaching from near the 
ends of the radial and from within the submarginal, to near the tip of 
the wing. A streak running along the frenal fold is quite fuliginous. 
These last areas have metallic reflections, blue at some angles, purplish 
at others. The hind wings are somewhat fuliginous with slight purple 
metallic reflections. The end of the fifth abdominal segment has a 
narrow yellow band and the venter of the first segment is obsoletely 
stained with yellow. 
The other two specimens that the writer has before him differ from 
the above in that the antennz beyond the three or four basal segments 
are quite black above but faintly ferruginous beneath. The yellow band 
behind the eyes and reaching across the occiput is interrupted in the 
middle with ferruginous. A band along the parapsidal grooves is 
black and the anterior edge of the mesopluron is darker than the plate 
as a whole. The tips of the tarsal claws are ferruginous to black. The 
yellow marks on the last or median segment of the thorax are obscure 
in one specimen and wanting in the other. 
The head in the above described forms is yellowish ferruginous. 
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