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broken well above the middle ; legs fulvo-ferruginous ; tips of tarsi 

 sometimes black ; claws pectinate ; abdomen brownish ferruginous ; 

 base of the second segment black above ; the segmets beyond the sec- 

 ond sometimes fuscous ; on one specimen the three apical segments 

 blackish. 



In describing this species I have examined the 9 type and 

 one 9 specimen. 



Type. — 9 . No. 74, American Entomological Society. 



This species varies somewhat in the extent of the fulvo- 

 hyaline spot in the wings. It is related to T. elegans, but in 

 that species the metathorax is coarsely reticulate and the 

 ocelli slightly larger. 



Distribution. — This species evidently ranges from southern 

 United States into Central America. It was described from 

 Mexico ; Cameron reports it from Orizaba, Mexico, and I 

 have before me a specimen from New Mexico. 



Location of specimens. — American Entomological Society, 

 type 9 , No. 74, Mexico ; 9 specimen. New Mexico. 



Tliyreodon elegaiis Cress. 



Thyreodon elegans Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., IV, p. 47 1865. 



Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 354 1900. 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 185 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34me Fasc.,p. 25, 



n. 5 1905. 



Fulvous; wings fulvous, with a broad apical band of fuliginous; dor- 

 sum of second abdominal segment black at the base ; mesonotum with 

 three broad black bands ; abdomen tnargined with ferruginous above and 

 beneath. 



Length, 25 mm. ; wing, 11.6 mm. ; spread, 25.5 mm. ; antennas, 25 

 mm. 



Head shining yellow, with a spot behind each antenna, the vertex 

 and a spot in the middle of the face just below the antennae, black ; 

 most of the occiput brown-black ; antennae scarcely half the length of 

 the body, stout, fulvous, with the apical joints black and the scape be- 

 neath tinged with yellow. 



Thorax shining, slightly pubescent, finely punctured ; mesonotum 

 with three broad black longitudinal stripes, more or less distinct, the 

 median extending from the anterior margin almost to the scutellum, 

 the lateral ones shorter in front but reaching the posterior margin ; 



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