. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ceropalinae: tribe ceropalini 265 punctures that are separated by about their diameter; male sub- genital plate ligulate, a little broader apically than in C. haioda and C. jemoralis, its edges upcurved (in dried specimens there are a pair of longitudinal folds that weakly converge apically and may unite as a single median carina before the apex of the subgenital plate); female subgenital plate triangular in side view, shorter than in C. pacifica and a little longer than in C. hatoda. Black. Longer hairs of head and thorax light brown; a
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ceropalinae: tribe ceropalini 265 punctures that are separated by about their diameter; male sub- genital plate ligulate, a little broader apically than in C. haioda and C. jemoralis, its edges upcurved (in dried specimens there are a pair of longitudinal folds that weakly converge apically and may unite as a single median carina before the apex of the subgenital plate); female subgenital plate triangular in side view, shorter than in C. pacifica and a little longer than in C. hatoda. Black. Longer hairs of head and thorax light brown; apical of mandible ferruginous; orbits (broadly mterrupted above and usually also behind), variable areas on the clypeus ranging from an apico- lateral spot to the entire clj^peus, tubercle between the antennae, apical triangular area on underside of scape, small spot on underside of pedicel, hind margin of pronotum, an anterior spot on pronotum, usually the lower corner of pronotum, more or less of the front of front coxa, usually a small spot on apex of front femur behind and a similar spot on apex of middle femur in front, usually small dorsal subbasal and subapical spots on fore and middle tibiae, an apical external. Figure 156.—Localities for Ceropales rugata. stripe on middle and hind coxae, rarely a small spot on the scutellum, the postscutellum, a wealdy curved lateral apical stripe (broadly separated medially from the stripe on the other side of the tergite) on each of tergites 1 to 4, often an obsolescent narrow apical sublateral spot on the fifth tergite, and a large dorsal spot on the last tergite, creamy white; legs beyond coxae fulvous, the trochanters strongly infuscate and the tarsi wealdy infuscate; flagellum tinged with fulvous beneath, especially in the female; maxillary palpi and tegula fulvous with often some infuscation; wmgs hyaline, a little infuscate apically. In males the front and middle femora may be infuscate and the clypeus sometunes entirely
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