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Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . :. r. Fiar. 104. is easily recognized by the black body and legs, and red pos- terior femora, and is six lines long. C. Robinsonii Cresson (Fig. 104, $ ) is an elegant species found in West Virginia. An allied genus is Jlt/ynimia (Fig. 105, wing) containing M. icana Cresson and 37. ».s- tulataT)ahlb., two Mexican species. In the genus J*cpsis (Fig. 106, wing) the max- illary and labial palpi are of equal length. The spe- cies are
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . :. r. Fiar. 104. is easily recognized by the black body and legs, and red pos- terior femora, and is six lines long. C. Robinsonii Cresson (Fig. 104, $ ) is an elegant species found in West Virginia. An allied genus is Jlt/ynimia (Fig. 105, wing) containing M. icana Cresson and 37. ».s- tulataT)ahlb., two Mexican species. In the genus J*cpsis (Fig. 106, wing) the max- illary and labial palpi are of equal length. The spe- cies are large, some of them being among the lar- gest of Hymenoptera, and are generally indigo-blue in color. Pepsis heron Dahlbom is found in Cuba ; it is two inches long. P. cyanca Linn., which is blackish-blue, withblue abdomen and wings,the latter reddish at theapex, has been described byBeauvois from the UnitedStates, while P. elryanx also occurs in theSouthern States. P. formosa Say affordsanother example of a speciescommon to both sides of the Rocky Mountains, as it has been found both in Texas and Cal- ifornia. It is black, with bluish or greenish r
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