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The armature of the latter, in general, very weak or wanting. The 
tibize of the posterior legs never serrated, bearing, at the most, short, 
isolated spines. The tibial spur of the posterior legs not extending 
beyond the middle of the metatarsus. Claws having a tooth in the 
middle on their inferior edges. The species belonging to this genus 
have a tendency to a lengthening of the 2nd segment of the abdomen. 
The 8rd ventral segment bears a transverse impressed line, as in 
Priocnemis, Pepsis, Agenia, &e. The middle segment convex, never 
emarginate or bearing an impression. In the male, the clypeus is 
evenly truncated, rounded, or neatly incised. In the female, the cly- 
peus seldom has its anterior margin transversely truncated, more often 
the centre is produced sharply. 
XII. GEN. CEROPALES (Tab. II, Fig. 12). 
CrRopaes, Latr., Prec, caract. Gen., MS., 1796, p. 123, 25, Gen, 
Ceropales, pt., Fabr, Syst. Piez., p. 185, 31, Gen., 1804. Ceropales, 
pt., Latr., Hist, Nat. Crust., et MS., t. XIII, p. 283, 1805. Evania, 
pt., Fabr. 
Ichneumon, pt., Oliv.; Pompilus, pt., Illig. 
Typx : Ceropales maculata, Fabr., Syst. Piez., p. 185, Nr. 1, 1804. 
Labrum produced below the clypeus. The eyes reaching up to or 
approaching the base of the mandibles. The antennz in the female 
only arched, their point of insertion lying, asa rule, at a moderate 
distance from the clypeus. The posterior margin of the pronotum, 
arched. The front wing with one lanceolate radial cell and three 
cubital cells ; the 2nd cubital cell receives the 1st recurrent nervure 
after the middle, the 2nd before or in the middle.* The transverse 
medial nervure is interstitial. The cubital nervure of the hind wing 
arises at some distance after the apex of the anal cell. Legs armed 
only with minute spines, or altogether spineless. 
The tarsal brush is absent from the anterior legs. Claws with one 
bent tooth in the middle or at the apex on their inferior edges. The 
middle segment is well proportioned, short and broad, never emargi- 
nated. The drd ventral segment is without a transverse impressed line. 
The sting-sheath in the female is produced. 
* There is some error here inthe text. The following is, I believe, what was ins 
tended—“ the 2nd cubital cell receives the Ist recurrent nervure after the middle; the 3rd 
cubital cell, the 2nd recurrent nervure, before or in the middle.” Thisis borne out by the 
diagram of the wing of ceropaled in the plate attached to Herr Kohl’s paper. 
