96 
O. Kröber: 
— Rückenschild grau tomentiert mit 2 — 7 schwarzen Linien oder 
Striemen 14. 
13 Grundfarbe des Körpers schwarz Z. alhonotatum Towns. 
— Grundfarbe hell rot gelb Z. ohliquefasciatum Macq. 
14 Hinterleib ohne eine Spur von rotgelber Farbe 15. 
— Hinterleib teilweise oder ganz rotgelb 16. 
15 Körper schlicht graugelb tomentiert mit ganz unscharfer 
Fleckung Z. fulvifrons Say 
— Körper graubraun bez. bläulich tomentiert. Hinterleib am 
zweiten bis vierten Ring mit je vier tiefschwarzen ± dreieckigen 
Flecken Z. maculiventris n. spec. $ 
16 Hinterleib dunkelrotgelb, erster Ring und Basis des zweiten 
schwarz, desgleichen eine Strieme am zweiten bis fünften Ring 
Z. lativentre Graen. 
— Hinterleib ganz hellrotgelb oder grau tomentiert mit zwei 
Fleckenreihen, zwischen denen eine helle Tomentstrieme in 
der Mitte des Hinterleibes verläuft. 
Z. fulvifrons Say var. abdominalis Say. 
13. Zodion pictulum Will. 
Trans. Connect. Acad. VI. 1882 — 85, p. 379. 
(J?: ,,Length 7^ — 8% mm. Head yellow, cheeks with obscure, 
indefinite, brownish spots; proboscis black, about as long as the 
hind femora. Antenn ae yellow, the third joint reddish or somewhat 
brownish, second and third joint s of equal length. Face with a 
silvery white reflection. Front opaque yellow, blackish at the 
vertex, with a triangulär expansion in the middle in front; below 
the middle, on each side near the orbit, with a small blackish or 
brownish spot. Occiput black, with black pile, and with silvery 
pollen, changeable in different reflections. Thorax and abdomen 
black, thickly light gra}^ pollinose, leaving deep black opaque spots 
as follcws: Ön the dorsum of the thorax, with two slender stripes, 
broadly separated and interrupted or abbreviated on the posterior 
part; on the inner side of each with an elongate spot, sometimes 
obsolete, situated near the posterior part of a dark not opaque, 
stripe; on each side with two large spots, one betöre, the other 
behind the suture; a spot on the humeri, the outer end of the suture, 
the post-alar callosity, the tip of scutellum, and an additional 
smaller one on each side; the pleurae with several less definite 
ones; the dorsum of the abdomen with irregulär, rather large 
spots on the anterior corners of the second segment and on the 
posterior part of the second and following segments. Scutellum 
projecting, neariy triangulär in shape. Ovipositor shining black. 
Legs yellow, whitish pollinose; the upper side of all the femora 
more or less broadly black, a spot on the under side of each femur, 
near the outer part, and two narrow rings on each tibiae, black, 
the basal one ot the hind tibiae more brownish; tips of claws black. 
