North American Hymenojptera. 215 



Allantus, Panz, Leach. 



1, A- epinotus. Black; tergum with a white band 

 at base ; feet varied with white. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : mouth white : tongue plceous : thorax 

 with the posterior edge of the collar, wing-scale, posterior 

 edge of the scutel and two minute dots behind it, white : 

 wings with brown nervures ; stigma somewhat inflated : 

 tergum with the posterior margin of the first segment 



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a black' line behind, tarsi dusky at tips of the joints : 

 jjosterior thighs black in the middle : tibice at base and 

 tip, black : tarsi^ first joint black, remaining joints black, 

 white at base. 



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2. A. goniphorus. Black ; abdomen rufous ; scutel 

 and thoracic triangle yellow- 

 Inhabits Indiana. 



$ 9 Body black : nasus emarginate, white : lahru 

 orbicular, and with the other parts of the mouth w^hite ; 

 mandibles at tip piceous: antenna, basal joint white: 

 thorax with a central triangle and posterior margin of the 

 collar white : scutel white with a black band : wings 

 hyaline; costal nervure and carpal spot yellowish; nerv- 

 ures fuscous : abdomen honey-yellow : pleura, with a 

 longitudinal vitta and a line descending from the superior 

 wing white : feet white ; anterior pairs with a black line 

 behind the thigh and tibia ; posterior pair honey-yellow, 

 base of the thigh, spot on the middle of the tibia,- tarsus, 



and 



latter with a black line. 



