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CXLIII. SPHECODINA.— Typns : abbotti. 



T/ii/ivns, Swainson {iinn Panzer, 1806), Zool. Illns/i: iii. t, liO (1821). 



I'tern,,,M, Thon (,u,h Boisdnral, 1834), Nnfiirf). Schm. p. 104 (18;i7) (partim). 



Sjiliefoilimi Blanchiird, Hist. X,:l. /««. iii. p. 478 (1840) (type : •ill,., Hi), 



Bi-iirhi/nolii Boisduval, Cons. Lqi. Guidcnuda p. Cli (1870) ; id., Spa-. Uai. Lip. Hit. i. li.'iO (1875). 



MareiliiH Kirby, Juiir,i. liinj. Soc. DiiUiii (2) ii. p. ,^,^0 (1880) (type : nUiitti). 



(??. Abdnmou flattened, witli prominent sidc-tufts, tail broad in S, consisting 

 of two broad side-tnfts and a smaller mesial tnft, tail of ? not fan-like, consisting: of 

 a single prominent conical tnft. Slidtarsns withont comb, i.e. spines of fonrth mw 

 not prolonged. IMate of seventh abdominal sternite very short, transverse. Fore- 

 wing narrow, irregnlar. Only abbotti dissected. 



(?. Tenth tergite and sternite simple, the latter inci.sed at end (PL XLIV. f. 0). 

 Clasper without friction-scales, narrowly sole-shaped, elongate, dorsal margin 

 concfive, curved inwards distally ; jjrocess of harpe short (PI. XLVII. f. 11), more 

 or less truncate and somewhat dilated at end. Penis-funnel (PL LIIL f. 31) armed 

 with a rounded-dilated flat process, which is somewhat fan-like and is dentate at 

 the edge. 



?. Vaginal plate similar to that of Pdchijgotiin \ triangular, apical eilges 

 incrassate, orifice proximaL 



Larva in first stage with horn, which is lost later on, being replaced by a 

 polished tubercle ; colour variable, green or brown, sometimes brown with large 

 green j)atches above and at the sides (nhbotti), or with two dorsal rows and an 

 infero-lateral one of vinaceous-cinnamon patches (/•ciii(/ata). — Food-plants: ]'>tis; 

 Ampelopsis. 



Pnpa (abbotti) with obtuse frontal end, non-jirominent caputal tubercles ; jiro- 

 and mesonotnm finely rugose, not rough, mesial line slightly raised ; abdomen 

 punctate-rugate, middle segments ventrally and laterally transversely irregularly 

 mnltijilicate before the minutely grannlose apical border, ninth tergite smooth, glossy, 

 cremaster rough, triangular, ending in two minute jioiuts. 



JIab. Eastern jiarts of Nearctic Kegion ; Amurland and China. 



Two species. 



544. Sphecodina abbotti. 



7'lii/rniH (ililiniti Hwainson, Zool. Illn.iti: iii. t. M (/.,^)., i.) (18'2I) (Georgia); Hall, in Riley, /».«. 

 Life i.p.?,V.> (1889) (Ohio). 



Ptemgon cihhnV, Thon, N/itnrij. Srhw. p. 104. t. 52. f. 722. 723. 724 (1837). 



ThjircMx iibhoti (!), Harris, in Sillim. , .//ih™. Sci. Art xxxvi. p. 307. n. 2 (1839) (Southern Sts. ; 

 Mass.) ; Blanch., If, si. Xat. Jnx. iii. p. 478 (1840) ; Chenu, Enc. Hist. Nut. i. p. 257. f. 475 

 (/). 45G (cJ) (1851-53) ; Walk., List Lip. Lis. B. .1/. viii. p. 99. n. 1 (185f.) (N. York; 

 Georgia) ; Clem , l'n«: A,: N. Sr. Pliihid. iv. p. 135. n. 12 (1859) (larva, pupa; X. York; 

 Penu. ; Georgia; Mass.; Ohio); Morris, Cat. Lcp. N. Am. p. 18 (1800); Clem., iu Morris, 

 Si/ii. Lip. iV. Am. p. 156. n. 1 (1862) ; Harris, Ent. Corresp. p. 284. t. 3. f. 9 (1863) ; (Iroto 

 & Rob., Pm: lint. Hoc. Philiid. v. p. 151. n. 11 (1805) ; Pack., Guide p. 276. f. 203 (1809) ; 

 Lintn., ftept. N. Yorh Slate Cob. X. II. xxiv. p. 114 (1870) ; id., Eiil. Coiili: i. p. 191 (1872) 

 (N. York) ; id., I.e. iii. p. 179 (1872) (N. York) ; Grote, Bull. Biifolo Soc. N. Sr. i. p. 19 

 (1874); Thaxt., Psip-lie i. p. 29 (1874) (Newton, Mass., v. vi.) ; Boisd., Spec. Ghi. Lep. Hit. 

 p. 331 (1875) ; Grote, I.e. ii, p. 225. n. 21 (1875); Whitn., Canail. E,il. viii. p. 75 (1870) ((J ? 

 from brown larvae) ; Grote, ihiil viii. p. 100 (187li) (g ? from brown larvae) ; Butl., Tram. 

 Znol. Soc. Lond. i.\. p. 534 (1877) (Georgia ; N. York) ; (irote, Hull. Ihiffaln S,ir. .V. .Sr. iii. 

 p. 221. D. 23 (1877) (N. York ; Peun. ; Mass.) ; id.. Cumid. Eid. ix. p. 120 (1877) (Lake Erie); 

 French, TmriK. Dept. Aijric. Jllin. xv. p, 104 (1877) : Saund., Canad, Ent. x. p. 130, fig. ('•) 



