138 INSECTA. 
sents a kind of false, sulcated or waved scutellum. The anterior 
tarsi are frequently ciliated and have the last joint inflated(1). In 
Crasro, Fab. 
There is but a single closed cubital cell, and it receives the first 
recurrent nervure; the mandibles terminate in a bifid point. The 
antennz are geniculate and filiform, fusiform or slightly serrated in 
some. Their palpi are short and almost equal; the ligula is entire. 
The clypeus is frequently golden or silvery, and very brilliant. 
Some males are remarkable for the palette or trowel-like dilatation 
(even resembling a sieve) of the tibiz, or of the first joint of their 
anterior feet. 
The female of one species—cibarius—provisions her larve with a 
Pyralis that lives on the Oak. Those of others feed them with Dip- 
tera, which they amass in the holes where they lay their eggs(2). 
Sticmus, Jur. 
These Insects are thus named from the largeness of the thick or 
callous point of the rib of the superior wings, and which forms a lit- 
tle black spot. They have two closed cubital cells, the first of which 
alone receives a recurrent nervure. The antenne are not geniculate, 
their first joint being slightly elongated, and in the form of a re- 
versed cone. The mandibles are arcuated and terminated by two or 
three teeth(3). 
There, the mandibles, at least in the females, are strong and bi- 
dentated on the inner side. The antennz are remote at base. 
PaMPHREDON, Lat. Fab.—Cemonus, Jur. 
Where there are two complete, sessile, cubital cells, and another 
imperfect one closed by the posterior edge of the wing. : 
One species—the unicolor—feeds its larve with Aphides(4). 
ME LLinus, Fab. Jur. 
Where there are three complete cubital cells, all sessile, and fre- 
(1) Lat., Ibid., 88. 
(2) Lat., Ibid., 80. 
(3) Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, 84. 
(4) Dat. Ibid, 83, divis- Land 11: 
