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segments, nearly all black on the rest ; apex with a broad semicir- 

 cular emargination ; three large subapical ventral teeth. 



9 . — About 14 mm. long; similar to the $ , except in the usual 

 sexual characters. Legs black, with black pubescence ; that on the 

 inner side of the front and hind tarsi, and both sides of the middle 

 tarsi, lively ferruginous; pubescence of cheeks all black; ventral 

 scop>a dense, black only to a slight extent at base, otherwise very bril- 

 liant orange-fulvous. 



Hab. — Olympia, Wash., June 30th, at flowers of lupine; also 

 June 19th to July 4th (T. Kincaid). A distinct and handsome 

 species. 

 Sphecodes kincaidii n. sp. 



9 . — Length 12 mm., the abdomen quite elongated with approxim- 

 ately parallel sides. Head and thorax black, abdomen entirely bright 

 ferruginous ; head transversely oval, front dull and very coarsely 

 rugose, clypeus subcancellate with strong punctures; pubescence of 

 face dirty whitish; antennce wholly dark; first joint of flagellum 

 very short, broader than long; mandibles dark, only rufescent at 

 the extreme tip, inner tooth short and blunt ; labrum not emargin- 

 ate ; mesothorax nearly bare, shining, with large strong punctures ; 

 base of metathorax coarsely cancellate, enclosed by a rim; tegular 

 brown ; wings rather pale fulginous, nervures and stigma piceous, 

 stigma considerably larger than in S. dichrous, first recurrent nervure 

 joining second submarginal cell before its end ; legs black, hind tarsi 

 entirely ferruginous ; abdomen smooth and shining, with small sparse 

 punctures, first two segments appearing nearly impunctate, with a 

 very few large punctures and more numerous very minute ones. 

 The third segment is much more punctate than the second. Apex 

 with some dark hair. 



#a&.— Olympia, Wash., June 19, 1895 (T. Kincaid). Easily 

 known by the large size, and the narrow elongate sparsely punctured 

 abdomen. It is not likely, I think, that it is the unknown 9 of 

 S. davisii Rob. S. dichrous Sm., also occurs at Olympia. 



