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brown. Tegmina bistre, with a few sub-obsolete spots of ecru drab. 

 Pleurae blackish brown except the metathoracic episternum, which bears 

 a prominent diagonal bar of yellowish-white. Abdomen above tessellate 

 with blackish-brown on a dull ochraceous ground. Anterior and me- 

 dian limbs drab, more or less irregularly infuscate witli a darker brown ; 

 posterior femora drab above and on the lateral face, the lower and inter- 

 nal aspect gamboge yellow, external face with diagonal blackish bars, 

 which cross the superior face and are distinct and regular on the inter- 

 nal surface,* genicular arch blackish, with a patch of ecru drab below ; 

 posterior tibia; pale claret brown, the spines black except at the immedi- 

 ate base. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



c? ? 



Length of body 22.5 mm. 29. mm. 



Length of pronotum 5-5 " 9- 



Length of tegmina 17. " 20. " 



Length of anterior femora . . . 4.8 4.1 



Length of posterior femora . . 12.2 " 14.2 



Length of posterior tibiae ... 10. " 122 " 



Specimens have been examined from only the type locality 

 and Atsion, Burlington Co., New Jersey. But one specimen 

 was taken at the latter locality, that on September 2, 1902. 



But little variation is exhibited by the series examined, the 

 differences which do exist being wholly in the intensity of the 

 coloration and the separate or confluent character of the bars 

 on the outer face of the posterior femora (vide supra). 



A Handsome Species of Tachysphex from Arizona. 



(Hymenoptera.) 

 BY HENRY L,. VIERECK. 

 Tachysphex propinquus n. sp. 



This beautiful wasp is related to T. ashmcadii Fox, from 

 which it is easily separated by the very acute pygidial area, 

 the more elaborate silvery ornamentation, color, etc. 



* In some specimens these bars are confluent and inseparable on the 

 external face, but in all the specimens examined the superior and inter- 

 nal faces are distinctly barred. The female type belongs to the form with 

 the form with the external bars confluent. 



