9ß O. Kröber: 



— Rückenschild grau tomentiert mit 2 — 7 schwarzen Linien cxier 

 Striemen 14. 



13 Grundfarbe des Körpers schwarz Z. alhonotalum lowns. 



— Grundfarbe hell rotgclb Z. obliqucfasciutum Macq. (^$ 



14 Hinterleib ohne eine Spur von rotgelber Farbe 15. 



— Hinterleib teilweise oder ganz rotgelb 16. 



15 Körper schlicht graugelb tomentiert mit ganz unscharfer 

 Flcckung Z. fulvifrons Say ^^. 



— Körper graubraun bez. bläulich tomentiert. Hinterleib am 

 zweiten bis vierten Ring mit je vier tiefschwarzen ± dreieckigen 

 Flecken Z. maciiliventris n. spec. $ 



16 Hinterleib dunkelrotgelb, erster Ring und Basis des zweiten 

 schwarz, desgleichen eine Strieme am zweiten bis fünften Ring 



Z. lativentre Graen. 



— Hinterleib ganz hellrotgelb oder grau tomentiert mit zwei 

 Fleckenreihen, zwischen denen eine helle Tomentstrieme in 

 der Mitte des Hinterleibes verläuft. 



Z. fulvifrons Say var. abdominalis Say. 



13. Zodion pictulum Will. 



Trans. Connect. Acad. VL 1882—85, p. 379. 



;^$: ,,Length 7^/2 — 8 /4 ^^- Head yellow, cheeks with obscure, 

 indefinite, browTiish spots; proboscis black, about as long as the 

 bind femora. Antennae yellow, the third Joint reddish or somewhat 

 brownish, second and third joints of equal length. Face with a 

 silvery white reflection. Front opaque yellow, blackish at the 

 Vertex, with a triangulär expansion in the middle in front; below 

 the middle, on cach side near the orbit, with a small blackish or 

 brownish spot. Occiput black, with black pile, and with silvery 

 pollen, changeable in different reflections. Thorax and abdomen 

 black, thickly light gra} pollinose, leaving deep black opaque spots 

 as follows: Ön the dorsum of the thorax, with two slender stripes, 

 broadly separated and interrupted or abbreviated on the posterior 

 part; on the inner side of each with an elongate spot, sometimes 

 obsolete, situated near the posterior part of a dark not opaque, 

 stripe; on each side with two large spots, one before, the other 

 behind the suture; a spot on the humeri, the outer end of the suture, 

 the post-alar callosity, the tip of scutellum, and an additional 

 smaller one on each side; the pleurae with several less definite 

 ones; the dorsum of the abdomen with irregulär, rather large 

 spots on the anterior corners of the second segment and on the 

 posterior part of the second and following segments. Scutellum 

 projecting, nearly triangulär in shape. Ovipositor shining black. 

 Legs yellow, whitish pollinose; the upper side of all the femora 

 more or less broadly black, a spot on the under side of each femur, 

 near the outer part, and two narrow rings on each tibiae, black, 

 the basal one ol the bind tibiae more brownish ; tips of claws black. 



