. Synopsis of American wasps [microform] : solitary wasps. Wasps; Wasps; Hymenoptera; Guèpes; Guèpes; Hyménoptères. mm 276 HYMENOPTERA OP AMERICA. [part I. I i its rather bidentate metathorax; by its clypcus 9 flattened, not so convex, % sliorter, not more prolonged below than above. In the Mejcican variety, the form is much as iu 0. Cordovas, but it is larger; the elypeus 9 a little produced at its apical end; head and thorax very coarsely shagreened ; the second segment of the abdomen shorter, its margin having its coarsely punctured band impressed and widened in the middle.—This var. dill'e
. Synopsis of American wasps [microform] : solitary wasps. Wasps; Wasps; Hymenoptera; Guèpes; Guèpes; Hyménoptères. mm 276 HYMENOPTERA OP AMERICA. [part I. I i its rather bidentate metathorax; by its clypcus 9 flattened, not so convex, % sliorter, not more prolonged below than above. In the Mejcican variety, the form is much as iu 0. Cordovas, but it is larger; the elypeus 9 a little produced at its apical end; head and thorax very coarsely shagreened ; the second segment of the abdomen shorter, its margin having its coarsely punctured band impressed and widened in the middle.—This var. dill'ers from 0. formoaus by its larger size, its clypeus more prolongeu at tip, metathorax not bidentate, and darker wings; from (). Hidalgi and llurhidi by its smaller size and metathorax not acutely margined superiorly. Hah. The prairies from Missouri lo Texas and New Mexico. Mexican Cordilleru (the "ariety) 5 ?, 2 ^. 95> O* crypticus Say.—Rufus ; abdomine flavo-trifasciato; alis in- fuse ati a. Odyn. cri/pticus Say, West. Quarterly Reporter, II, 1, 1823, 80.—Say's Entoin. (Lb Conte), I, 168. Rhjgchium crypticum Say, Bost. Jonrn. I, 1837, 384, 3.—Say's Entom. (Lb Cokte), 705, 3—Sacss. Et. Vespid. Ill, 184. Total length, 5 lines. Body rufous, much punctured; vertex and origin of the antennae, black; antenna? dusky at tip; thorax with a black spot before the middle ; scutel bilobate, with a longitudinal, deeply impressed line ; metathorax concave; wings dusk}', paler at tip; tergum with three yellow bands, the anterior one bmdlest and subconcealed. Hab. Arkansas. This is most likely a pale variety of 0. 96. O. sillfureus Sauss. (Fig. 18, ISa.)—? 0. arvensi simillimns, at nietanato minus excavato; niger, sulfureo-multipictus ; ore, clypeo et facie sulfureis; oculis flavo-, snpra rufo-marginatia ; antennis fuscis, scape rnto; pronoto flavo, angulis posticis rufis ; scutello flavo-bimacn- lato; post-scutello, tegulis maculis plenrarnm et metanoti ang
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