BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^. 



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Palmia praecedens (Hy. Edw.). 



Plate XXX, Fig. 9, Female. 



Seiapteron pracedens Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. Ill, 1883, p. 155 ; Ent. Amer. Vol. Ill, 1888, 



p. 223. 

 Palmia prcecedens Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 123. 



Female. — Head and thorax brown black, the latter with red stripe on each side. Antennae 

 orange, black at the tips. Abdomen black with some red scales laterally at the base, last three seg- 

 ments and anal tuft bright lemon yellow. Legs orange red with a broad l^lack band on the tibiae ; 

 hind tarsi lemon yellow. Fore wings brown with a narrow transparent streak stained with red along 

 the internal margin. Hind wings brown, transparent at their base. Beneath both wings are 

 streaked with red and yellow. 



Expanse : 30 mm. 



Habitat. — North Carolina. 



Type : One female. Coll. Neumoegen, Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sciences. 



The yellow tip to the abdomen will at once serve to distinguish the species. 

 The type is the only specimen known to exist in collections and nothing what- 

 ever is known about the life-history of the species. The male is unknown. 



./Egeria Fabricius. 



Fig. 16. 



Algeria Fabricius, Illiger, Mag. Insectenk. Vol. VI, 1807, p. 288 (in part). 

 Sphecia Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 127. 



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Fig. 16. Venation, Head, and Hind Leg of ALgeria aftiformis. 



Head small, palpi upturned and scarcely reaching the top of the head, clothed with long hairs 

 towards the base. Antennae short and thick, about as long as the thorax, strongly pectinate in the 

 male, simple in the female. Body robust, abdomen cylindrical, blunt at tip, male with anal tuft 

 not prominent. Tibiae thickly clothed with short hairs. Femora and tarsi not hairy. Tongue ab- 

 sent. Fore wings with veins R 4 and R 5 stalked. Hind wings with veins M 3 and Cu x from angle 

 of cell or on a very short stalk. Discocellulars very oblique. 



Type : Sphinx apiformis Clerck. 



