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Psyche 6:556, 1891.

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556 pS2THE. [November 1893.
Cerceris austrina. 2 .- Clypeus sub-
convex, not produced, its fore margins
rounded or subtruncate, strongly punctured. its lateral lobes small and indistinct; front. vertex and cheeks with coarse punctures, those on the cheeks strongest; inner eye- margins slightly converging towards the
clypeus; ocelli placed in a low triangle; antennae* tolerably long, thickened but little to the apex, first joint of the flagellum about one-quarter longer than the second, joints 2-4 about equal in length; thorax very
coarsely punctured, the punctures on the mesopleurae irregular ; sides of prothorax somewhat excavated or depressed ; mesopleu- rae armed with two strong teeth beneath; enclosure on metanotum triangular, parted by a strong furrow which runs the entire length of the metathorax, and with a number of both oblique and transvei se ridges ; tibiae and tarsi strongly spinose, the hind tibiae very distinctly serrated on outer edge ; the spines on fore tarsi forming the comb rather short and widely separated; dorsally the abdomen is less strongly punctured than the thorax, segments 1-5 reflexed at apex; ventrally the base and apex of segments 2-5 are im-
punctate; pygidial area almost exactly ovate, having the appearance of being scaly ; black ; clypeus, sides of face, scape beneath, basal half of mandibles, four anterior tibiae and tarsi in part a transverse mark on pronotum, separated in the middle, and scutellum
yellow ; greater part of antennae, pronotum, tegulae, legs, postscutellum, first abdominal segment above, second and third segments, except basal portions, rufous, apical portion of second dorsal segment, yellow; face and clypeus clothed with pale silvery pubescence ; head, thorax, and abdomen ventrally, with pale fuscous hair; wings fuscous, nervures testaceous. Length 114 mm.
8 .- Middle lobe of clypeus
somewhat
pyriform, its anterior margin seemingly
tridentate, in consequence of its middle por- tion being angularly produced; head coarsely punctured, the punctures on front, vertex and cheeks deepest; antennae longer than in the f , second joint of flagellum a little longer than either the third or fourth;
mesopleurae not dentate ;
wings subfuscous
darker towards apex ; pygidial area coarsely punctured; eighth ventral plate bifurcate; colored like the female, except that the face and clypeus is entirely yellow, and dorsal abdominal segments 2-5 have generally a
narrow, yellow fascia at apex, the first and second segments are both above and beneath generally rufous; in some specimens the
second segment has no trace of rufous, while in others the first three segments are more or less marked with that color, apical half of antennae black. Length 10-12 mm.
So. Florida (Chas. Robertson). I 2 and 15 8 specimens. Allied toverticalis Smith, but differs in the less coarse sculpture, the roughly and many ridged enclosure on
metanotum (in verticalis it is smooth) and the somewhat stouter antennae. It resembles verticalis very much. but the want of the ruf- ous color on vertex and metathorax will gener- ally distinguish it. It is larger than ritfo/ici!a more coarsely sculptured and the flagellum is not so much thickened on apical portion. A CORRECTION.- In Psyche 1893 (v. 6, p.
379) I described larvae received from Mr. J. B. Lembert as Arctia blakei Grote. Since then Mr. Lembert has sent a second specimen, like the one from which the eggs were ob- tained except that the veins
of fore wings
are narrowly lined with flesh color. This leads me to believe that the larvae described were really those of A. ornata Pack. and the varietal name propohed by me will not stand. The synonymy will be :-
EYPREPIA (CALLARCTIA) ORNATA Pack.
sifnfh'cior Butl.
å´perpici Dyar.
var. ACHAIA G. & R.
edwa~dsii Stretch.
VW. COMPLICATA Walk.
*
\dahurica Grote.
ochracea Stretch.
barda Hy. Edw.
Harrison G. Dyar.




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