Reprinted from: Cresson, E.T., 1878. Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc.7:80-81.
Ferruginous, opaque; head and thorax very
densely and confidently punctured; tips of mandibles, dot on each side of
clypeus, spot behind each antenna, confluent with a spot enclosing the ocelli,
a etripe on middle of meeothorax dilated anteriorly and posteriorly and inter
rupted before middle, broad stripe on middle of metathorax, dot on sides of
prothorax and spot above middle coxes, black; apex of flagellum fuscous,
eecond joint slightly shorter than third; scutellum subbilobate; tegula opaque
and coarsely punctured; wings faintly tinged with fuscous, apical margin
fuscous; abdomen opaque, minutely punctured, a large round apot on aides of
second segment, a band on third and fourth and tha fifth segment entirely,
pale yellow; venter ferruginoue, immaculate. Length .45 inch.
% ?Uead yellow ; a dot on each side of clypeus, tipe of mandible?, vertex
and occiput, black; antenna ferruginous, more or less black or fuscous behind
and at tip, third joint much shorter than fourth; thorax ferruginoue; meao
thorax black with broad lateral margin and narrow stripe on each eida of
middle ferruginoue, sometimes ferruginous with a broad median black atrip?
dilated posteriorly ; scutellum more strongly bilobed than in 9 ? pootecuUllum
yellowish ; disk and lateral margin of metathorax and spot on each side of
protborax black: wings hyaline, narrowly fuscous on apical margin ; abdomen
yellow above, the apical margin of the segment? ferruginous; first segment
ferruginous with a narrow interrupted yellow band, more or less indented
anteriorly and posteriorly. Length .40 inch.
Hab.?Colorado, (Ridings). Four specimens.
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