^orth American Hymenoptera. 



365 



Sfhex plumipes, Drury. If this be correct, Drury has 

 the priority, and the name and synonyms, will stand 



thus. 



ScoLiA plumipes^ Drury. 



66 



66 



66 



fossulanaj Fabr. (female). 

 raduhy Fabr. (male). 

 confluenta^ Say. (female). 



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-- Ceropales, Lat. 



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1. C. inteiricpta. Black, spotted and banded with 

 yellow ; wings dusky ; antennae and feet honey-yellow ; 

 tarsi yellow. 



m 



Inhab. Indiana. 



AnteriTKB honey-yellow ; first joint, bright-yellow : 

 labrum yellow, black at base : Aypostoma yellow^ with a 

 quadrate spot and incisures black : orbits dilated, yellow, 

 Interrupted above : ' thorax impunctured ;' margin of the. 

 anterior segment all around, longitudinal spot each side 

 of the scutel and transverse spot behind the scutel, yel- 

 low : metathorax at tip bi-fasciate with yellow, posterior 

 band clavate each side on the pleura : wings fuliginous, 

 particularly on the cubital cellules and tip ; abdomen 

 ferruo-inous, varied with obsolete yellow and black bands; 

 and with two yellowish spots on the first segment : pleura 

 with a spot behind the wings and a larger one over the 

 intermediate feet, yellow : coxcb varied with yellow : thighs 

 honey-yellow, black at base : tibice honey-yellow, yellow 



at base : tarsi yellow. 



Length two fifths of an inch. 



Closely allied to fascidta, Nob. but the thorax is not 



distinctly punctured, the wings are dusky fee. 



