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BOSTON 



JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



Vol. I. 



MAY, 1837. 



No. 4 



ART. XVII.— DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NORTH 

 AMERICAN HYMENOFTERA, AND OBSERVATIONS ON 

 SOME ALREADY DESCRIBED. By Thomas Say. 



[Concluded from p. 305 ] 



M . COSi 



two spots 



Meria, Jur. 



9 Black ; tergum with yellow bands and 



Inhab. Indiana. 



Body black : head above the antennae with a transverse 



r 



line, slightly interrupted in the middle, an orbital line, 

 and short line behmd the eyes, yellow: mandibles pice- 

 ous : thorax with two transverse 'spots before, a small 

 triangular one above the wing-scale, a transverse one be- 

 hind the scutel, and a bi-lobed one each side behind, yel- 

 low ; each side of the middle of the thorax are two 

 abbreviated, somewhat oblique, impressed lines : meta- 

 thorax with a double yellow longitudinal side and obvious 

 transverse rugse : pleura with a triangular spot under the 

 superior wings, a small oblique line over the intermediate 

 feet, yellow : wings with a brown costal margin : tergum 



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