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ico and the West Indies as far south as the Argentine Republic. I 

 have a specimen before me, the property of the U. S. National 

 Museum, from Napa County, California, collected by D. W. 

 Coquillett. 



2. Monedula Carolina Fabr. 



Bembex Carolina Fabricius, Ent. Syst., II, p. 249. 

 Monedula Carolina Latreille, Hist. Nat., XIII, PI. 102, f. 3. 



Occurs from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Florida and Texas; 

 Illinois. 



3. Monedula speciosa Cress. 



Monedula speciosa Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc, Philadelphia, IV, p. 470, 2 ■ 

 Monedulaformosa Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IV, p. 221, $ 9 • 

 Monedula speciosa Patton, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, V, p. 361. 



Colorado; Kansas; Texas. 



4. Monedula serrata Hdl. 



Monedula serrata Handlirsch, Sitzb. Akad. Wissen, Wien, Math.-naturw. 

 Classe, Abth. I, XCIX. p. 143, $ . 



Georgia. I have not seen the $ , the sex described by Hand- 

 lirsch, but a 2 specimen before me evidently belongs to this species. 

 It agrees with the description of the $ , except of course lacking the 

 $ sexual characters, and the base of clypeus is black. This latter 

 character may vary, however. 



5. Monedula pulchella Cress. 



Monedula pulchella Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc, Pbila., IV, p. 471, $ O • 

 Monedula minutula Handlirscb, 1. c, p. 148, J . 



Colorado; Texas; Kansas; Utah; California. A slenderer species 

 than pictifrons which it resembles but the wings longer. Judging 

 from the description, minutula is identical with pulchella. 



6. Monedula tuberculata n. sp. Plate XIV, f. 8. 



$. — Similar to pulchella. Black; inner and posterior orbits, 

 inferior portion of front, clypeus except narrow line at base, labrum, 

 mandibles except apex, line on pronotum including the tubercles, 

 sides of prothorax, spot on mesopleurse, postero-lateral angles of 

 dorsulum, large spot on each side of scutellum narrowed internally, 

 metanotum, middle segment above and on sides more or less, legs, the 

 coxse, trochanters and femora variegated with black, however, large 

 spot on each side of the first dorsal segment, a band on the remaining 

 dorsals, that on the second broadest and deeply emarginate anteriorly 

 in the middle, the others rather sinuated, and all the ventrals with 



