. Synopsis of American wasps [microform] : solitary wasps. Wasps; Wasps; Hymenoptera; Guèpes; Guèpes; Hyménoptères. 34G IIYMKNOl'TKUA <.F AM Kit !C A. [I'AllT Ili',ss. a. (Jiff.—'I'liis is II very (lilliciilt specioa. Tho ycllitw iimrf^iii of llio 2(1 scjiiiii'iit in riitlicr In-ciimrgimito as in 0, ?ui/«- tecuH.—Till! i)<)(ly is iKti fulvo-vdutinous us in JIiiiDitecua uiid Olomittis, l)ut inoH' black, with silky argouteous roflections; thu iiK'tiitlmrax is not rough as in Ofuniilua, nor so widely excavated. —It diflors also from JIanstecu.'y its acute pffjthoracic angles nnil smalle


. Synopsis of American wasps [microform] : solitary wasps. Wasps; Wasps; Hymenoptera; Guèpes; Guèpes; Hyménoptères. 34G IIYMKNOl'TKUA <.F AM Kit !C A. [I'AllT Ili',ss. a. (Jiff.—'I'liis is II very (lilliciilt specioa. Tho ycllitw iimrf^iii of llio 2(1 scjiiiii'iit in riitlicr In-ciimrgimito as in 0, ?ui/«- tecuH.—Till! i)<)(ly is iKti fulvo-vdutinous us in JIiiiDitecua uiid Olomittis, l)ut inoH' black, with silky argouteous roflections; thu iiK'tiitlmrax is not rough as in Ofuniilua, nor so widely excavated. —It diflors also from JIanstecu.'y its acute pffjthoracic angles nnil smaller size, its deeper and more rounded nietatlioraeic cavity, the yellow margins of abdomen, especially tho 2d, wider; tho 1st being much narrower, and its feet black. It can be easily distinguished by the wide margin of 2d segment. Sonietinies, t'speeially in the males, the head, prutliora.\, and iirst segment arc almost wholly black. JIal). Mexico. This was caught in tho temperato district of Cuernavaca, south of ^Mexico, by my eomiianion, II. Pcyrot, to whom it is dedicated; 9 ^ also have been taken near Orizaba, 4 9,2^ (Sumichrast). d. Prothorax fjtiite, yellow ahuve, Scntd and ])ost-scutel yellow. 142« O* COllimbaris —Niger; luetathoracis foveola submar- giiiata ; abdoiniiiiti 2'Hcgmeiiti niargine subrcllexo ; dypeo 9 supunie, punoto frontali, oculaii «t post-oculari, flavis; scapo subtus flavo; pronoto, inncula siibalari, scutello, post-scutello, metatboracis cantbis, iibdoiiiinJH segtnentoruni limbo, tibiisque aiitice, Ibavis; alis subhyaliuis, costa subferruginea, apice griseo; tegulis ferragiueis. 9 • Oilyn. coluviharh Sauss. Et. Vesp., I, 158, 42': pi. xvii, fig. 3 (1852). Hah. South America,; Columbia, (type in the Paris Museum.) 3. Body elongate, slender ; the abdomen especially, very slender. Mctathorax convex, having no longer a distinct excavntipn, but .sooner ])arted by a large groove, which separates its two cheeks, somewhat as in Eumenes.


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