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ALLANTUS Panz. Leach. 



1. A. EPlNOTUS. — Black ; tergum with a white band at base ; 

 feet varied with white. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body bhick : mouth white ; tongue piceous : thorax with the 

 posterior edge of the coUar, wing-scale, posterior edge of the scu- 

 tel, and two minute dots behind it, white ; wings with brown 

 nevvurcs : stigma somewhat inflated : tergum with the posterior 

 mariiin of the first se<:ment white : feet white : coxas with a di- 

 lated line before and behind ; anterior and intermediate thighs 

 and tibiae with a black line behind, tarsi dusky at tips of the 

 joints : posterior thighs black in the middle : tibiaj at base and 

 tip black : tarsi, first joint black, remaining joints black, white 

 at base. 



Length % three-tenths, J less than two-fifths of an inch. 



2. A. coNiniORUS — Black; abdomen rufous; scutel and tho- 

 racic triangle yellow. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



% 9 Body black : iiasus emarginate, white : labrum orbicular, 

 and with the other parts of the mouth white : mandibles at tip 

 piceous: antennae basal joint white: thorax with a central tri- 

 angle and posterior margin of the collar white : scutel white with 

 a black band : wings hyaline ; costal nervure and carpal spot yel- 

 lowish : nervures fuscous : abdomen honey-yellow : pleura with a 

 longitudinal vitta, and a line descending from the superior wing 

 white : feet white : anterior pairs with a black line behind the 

 thigh and tibia; posterior pair honey-yellow, base of the thigh, 

 spot on the middle of the tibia, tarsus, excepting the base of the 

 first joint and coxae white, the latter with a black line. [216] 



Length three-tenths of an inch. 



A female has the basal joint of the antennae almost black. 



3. A. APiciALis [apicalis]. — Black; antennae at the tip 

 white ; abdomen honey-yellow. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body-black: antennae, four last joints white : nasus profoundly 

 lunate, white : labrum obtusely angulated before, white : thorax, 



[Vol. I. 



