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brownish beneath, joints 3 and 4 subequal. Face and vertex opaque, 

 finely and densely punctured ; clypeus with sparse, large coarse punc- 

 tures, sides of face clothed with whitish pubescence. Mesothorax sub- 

 opaque, with dense medium-sized punctures ; wings strongly tinged with 

 black, tegulae black, stigma and nervures brown-black; the second 

 submarginal cell is strongly narrowed above so that it is almost tri- 

 angular. The disc of the metathorax is coarsely reticulated but there 

 is no distinct enclosure. Abdominal segments 1-3 are a deep red 

 tinged with black, the basal half of segment 4 is red and the apical 

 half black; segments 5-6 black; the basal segment is impunctate, segment 

 2 is impunctate in the middle, but finely and closely punctured laterally, 

 the apical segments are finely and densely punctured, except on the 

 apical margins. 



The typ^, a fine specimen very carefully prepared and mount- 

 ed, will be placed in the Museum of the Bost. Soc. of Xat. Hist. 

 It was collected at Fall River, Mass., Sept. 7, 1908, by X. S. 

 Easton. Xo other species of Sphecodes known to me has the 

 wings so strongly suffused with black, or the abdomen so dark 

 a red ; the sculpturing of the metathorax is also characteristic. 

 As in S. ranunculi Robt. the second submarginal cell is narrow- 

 ed above, but in S. johnsonii the first and second transverse 

 cubital nervures are separated by so small an interval on the 

 marginal that the cell is nearly triangular. From S. ranunculi 

 it may be readily distinguished by its form, color, punctuation. 

 and in having joints 3 and 4 of the flagellum subequal, while 

 in ranunculi joint 4 nearly equals 2 plus 3. This species is dedi- 

 cated to Mr. Charles \V. Johnson who has made many very 

 valuable contributions to the advancement of the entomology' 

 of Xe\v England. 



Sphecodes dichrons Sm. 9. 



Framingham. Mass., May 28, 1904: X^rwich. Yt.. July 4. 

 1808, C. \Y. Johnson. 



S. dichrous Sm. $, var. smaller than tppe. 



Monomet, Mass., July 27, 1905, C. W. Johnson. 



S. dichrous Sm. J . 



Fall River, Mass., July 9, J. A. Cu-hman ; Auburndale, 

 Mass., July 12, C. W. Johnson. 



S. Minor Robt. 9. 



Brookline (Chestnut Hill), Mass., July i, C. A. Frost. 



