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segments, except the apical one, with a narrow white fascia, narrowest in 

 the middle, the fascia on first segment narrow from side to side. 



Black ; legs from ferruginous to testaceous, chiefly a dark shade of 

 the latter; anterior and median coxte black. The legs have a whitish 

 pubescence, except on the inner side of tibia? and all of tarsi, where the 

 pubescence is golden. 



J. Length, 11.5 mm. Exactly like the $, except for the usual 

 sexual characters ; pubescence on face abundant and not appressed ; 

 dorsal apical segment with six spines, one on each side at base testaceous, 

 the four at apex black, simple, the lower pair longer than the upper, sharp, 

 the upper pair short, blunt ; scutellar spines longer than in $ , broader at 

 apex than at base. 



Types : Coll. Am. Ent. Society. The $ deposited by Mr. Fox. 



Type locality, Lake Worth, Florida (Mrs. A. T. Slosson). 



The male is labeled " Fla." Two 9 9 from Lake Worth ; the 

 co-type is identical with the type. 



MegacJiile manumuskin, n. sp. 



Thorax shining, punctured ; scopa white, on apical segment black ; 

 inner side of tarsi in both sexes brilliant brownish. 



?. Length, 14 mm. Margin of clypeus almost even, the clypeus 

 and a small space above closely punctured, the surface shining and 

 almost bare, the rest of the face up to the ocelli indistinctly punctured, 

 covered with an ,erect whitish pubescence, which extends down and 

 covers the lower coiners of the clypeus ; top of the head not so closely 

 punctured as the clypeus, shining, sparsely covered with black hairs; 

 checks indistinctly punctured, covered with erect pubescence whiter than 

 that on the face ; space between posterior ocelli seemingly a little greater 

 than that between them and eye margins ; mandibles the shape of an 

 obtuse angled triangle, with four teeth, the upper surface separated from 

 the lateral surface by a raised opaque line, the upper surface with drawn- 

 out punctures; antennae with the first joint of the flagellum a little longer 

 than the second. Dorsum of thorax shining, punctures on dorsulum close 

 together; on the sides, in front, in the middle and behind the punctures 

 are well defined and separated ; punctures on scutellum distinct, closer 

 than those on the middle of the thorax ; the thorax above almost bare 

 in the middle, near the margins with sparse black hairs, surrounded 

 by white hairs on the margins ; surface of the rest of the thorax 

 indistinctly sculptured; metathorax almost smooth, opaque, almost 



