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CEROPALES Lat. 



1. C. INTERRUPTA. — Black, spotted and banded with yellow ; 

 wings dusky ; antennae and feet honey-yellow; tarsi yellow. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Antennje honey-yellow; first joint, brijjht-yellow : labrum yel- 

 low, black at base : hypostoma yellow, with a quadrate spot and 

 incisures black : orbits dilated, yellow, interrupted above : tho- 

 rax inijiunctured ; margin of the anterior segment all around, 

 longituilinal spot each side of the scutel and transverse spot be- 

 hind the scutel, yellow : metathorax at tip bifasciate with yel- 

 low, posterior band clavatc each side on the pleura : wings fuli- 

 ginous, particularly on the cubital cellules and tip : abdomen fer- 

 ruginous, varied with obsolete yellow and black bands ; and with 

 two yellowi.sh spots on the first segment: pleura with a spot be- 

 hind the wings and a larger one over the intermediate feet, yel- 

 low : 00X33 varied with yellow : thighs honey-yellow, black at 

 base : tibirc honey-yellow, yellow at base : tarsi yellow. 



Length two-fifths of an inch. 



Closely allied to fasciata nob. but the thorax is not distinctly 

 punctured, the wings are dusky, &c. [366] 



2. C APiCALis. — Black ; wings black at tip ; abdomen with a 

 rufous band ; tip white. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : hypostoma hoary : collar on the posterior margin 

 white : wings hyaline with a fuliginous tip, in which is an ob- 

 solete hyaline spot or band : metathorax dull silvery ; abdomen 

 rather slender towards the base ; second segment, excepting on 

 its posterior margin, fulvous ; anal segment white ; posterior 

 tibiae with a white line on the posterior side : intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi with the second, third and fourth joints white, 

 with black tips. 



Length over two-fifths of an inch. 



CHLORION Latr. 

 C. CANALicuLATUM nob. {Ampulex) "Western Quarterly Re- 

 porter, vol. ii. p. 76. 



The name Chlorion has priority over that of Ampulex given 



by Jurine. 



[Vol. I. 



