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Say^s Descriptions of 



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It seems to 



dilated oval cocoon of a ferruginous color, 



approach Megtlla metaUica, Fabr. which however Is 



said to be large, black-bronze, with white wings, 



2- O. bucconis. Black ; terguni with slender white 

 bands. 



Inhab. Indiana, 



9 Body black, with rather short gray hairs, and obvi- 

 ous, dense punctures : head father large, long between 

 the eyes and thorax: nasus entire: mandibles with a 

 patch of dense prostrate hairs near the tip : wings hya- 

 line : nervures fuscous ; wing-scale piceous : tergura with 

 short, blackish hairs ; segments rather convex, narrow, 

 white bands of prostrate short hairs, wider each side ; 

 towards the posterior extremity with numerous white, 

 short hairs, obvious in profile ; posterior tarsi with longer 

 hairs, tinted with ferruginous : venter with fulvous hairs. 



Length over three tenths of an inch. 



$ Resembles the female, but is smaller, and the tail 

 has four distant denticulations. 



Length one fourth of an inch. 





Cjelioxys, Latr. 



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tion, p. 353). 



(Appendix to Long 



9 Body rather more slender than that of the male • 



the abdomen conic and polished ; head before, a little 



pruinose, with short hairs ; thoracic lines white and less 



obvious than in the male; feet black; tibiae and tarsi 



more or less piceous ; terguni, with the bands white and 



all of them single, those of the male are tinged with 

 yellow. 



The Anthophora Udentata, F., which is said to be 



