Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 39. köideSociety at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1913 |
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abdomen Abdomen.-Dorsum anal antennae Antennae inserted apical arcuate aspect of left basal base beak black pile Bombias Bombus brown clasper Clypeus coarsely punctate Color Variant convex costal cross-veins cubitus densely punctate Dietz distinctly dorsal abdominal segment Dorsum Dorsum of thorax elytra entirely black entirely dark feebly femora ferruginous pile fifth fore-wings forked fourth fovea Friese fringes front genitalia hind tibiae hind-wings legs length less long as wide longer than wide Malar space male median Mesopleura middle moderately narrow nearly occiput ocelli pale pleura pronotum prosternum prothorax pubescence punctures pygidium queen radial sector scutellum second funicular joint segment clothed shining short shorter side of genitalia slender slightly sparsely spatha species specimens spot stigma striae strongly suture tarsi Third antennal segment thorax tibiæ tooth transverse tubercles twice as long vein Venter ventral aspect vertex vestiture whitish wider width at apex wings worker yellow hairs yellow pile
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Page 129 - Types.—Described from five queen cotypes (three of these from Chanchamayo, Peru, one from Callanga, Peru and one from Boquete, Chiriqui), of which four are deposited in the collection of the United States National Museum and one in the collection of the Massachusetts Agricultural College ; from sixteen workers (fourteen from Chanchamayo, Peru and two from Callanga, Peru), of which fourteen are deposited in the collection of the United States National Museum and two in the collection of the Massachusetts...
Page 178 - Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., VII, 1879, p. 231 (Catal.). " " Cresson, Syn. Hym. North America, 1887, p. 308 (Catal.). praticolus Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., X, 1896, p. 541. The original description is as follows: "9. Body black, clothed above with yellowish hair. Head with a tuft of yellowish hairs below the antennae, and on the vertex ; thorax black between the wings, which are embrowned ; legs with yellow hairs at the base ; anterior half of the abdomen yellow, posterior ferruginous. Length of...
Page 96 - ... and delicately punctured. The thorax with black pubescence above and beneath, that on the sides pale yellow ; the pubescence on the legs entirely black ; the wings fusco-hyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen: the three basal segments clothed with pubescence of a pale yellow, somewhat lemon-colored, that on the third segment not quite extending to the lateral margins ; the apical segment thinly sprinkled with ferruginous hairs.
Page 65 - ... rather larger than usual. Length 2.2 mm.; .085 inch. In well preserved specimens the surface is clothed with scattered, small white scales, which are more dense at the sides of the prothorax, at the base of the third interspace of the elytra, and the side pieces of the mesoand metathorax, and at the sides of last three ventral segments. These scales are however easily abraded. AMPELOGLYPTER ng This genus contains species which depredate on the small stems of grape vines and allied plants, producing...
Page 111 - The male is here described for the first time, from two cotypes, one of which is deposited in the collection of the United States National Museum and the other in the collection of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Page 141 - Meadow Valley — head of Rio Piedras Verdes — six miles south of Colonia Garcia, in the Sierra Madre of Western Chihuahua, at an altitude of about 7,000 feet).
Page 44 - Elytra three-fifths wider than the prothorax and nearly two and one-half times as long...
Page 98 - Meadow Valley, head of Rio Piedras Verdes (six miles south of Colonia Garcia), Sierra Madre of western Chihuahua, Mexico — about 7,000 feet altitude.
Page 23 - The types of all the new species described in this paper are in the author's collection.
Page 239 - All of the types of the new species described in this paper are in the collection of the author.