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4. Length 20 mm.; abdomen hardly pubescent (Utah) . . eonnexus Fox. 

 Length 14 mm.; abdomen distinctly pubescent . . primaaestate n. sp. 



Bembex nubilipennis Cress. 



Male, Rocky Ford, Colo., July 4, 1904; female, labeled 

 " F. F. C." 



Bembex sayi Cress. 



Female, Salida, Colo., Oct. 3, 1898 ; 2 females, Cope, Colo., 

 Aug. 9, 1905 (S. A. Johnson). 



Bembex amoena Hdl. 



Male, Alamosa, Colo., Aug. 6, 1903 ; male, Rocky Ford, 

 Colo., July 4, 1904. 



Bembex spinolae St. Farg. 



Two females, Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 10, 1907 (Hite) ; female, 

 Sept. 12, 1907, fls. Chrysothamnus gravcolcns, also Oct., 6, 

 1907, Boulder, Colo. (Roh.). The Boulder ones have a very 

 small spot below tegulae. 



Bembex primaaestate John, and Roh., n. sp. $. Length 14 mm.; 

 clypeus rather irregularly punctured with shallow punctures ; mandibles 

 with a small tooth, about one-fourth from apex ; front impunctate, or if 

 punctured, very finely so ; ocellar region with some distinct punctures ; 

 vertex and occiput straight ; scape and first flagellar joint of about equal 

 length, first joint of flagellum fully as long as 2 -f- 3 ; dorsulum with 

 rather indistinct, close punctures, sparse on posterior part ; scutellum 

 with punctures more distinct and separated ; mesopleura finely punc- 

 tured ; metathorax punctured as scutellum ; anterior tarsi strongly flat- 

 tened, base of first joint emarginate beneath ; pulvilli large and somewhat 

 bent toward apex ; abdomen above rather strongly reticulate, apical seg- 

 ments punctured ; ventral segments finely reticulate, with some large 

 punctures. Black ; clypeus, labrum, mandibles, except apex, which is 

 piceous, scape and flagellum beneath, inner orbits to ocelli, intercellular 

 spot, spot between antennae, a large spot on each side of first abdo- 

 minal segment above, segments 2-5 with broad bands, which are dentate 

 at the sides (second and third more strongly so), and spot on ventral 

 segments 2, 3, 4, greenish-white ; posterior orbits, prothorax except a 

 spot in the middle, tegulae, spot above, a spot on each side of scutellum, 

 line on postscutellum, large spot on mesopleura, spot above middle 

 coxae, a large and small spot on metapleura, spot on trochanters, most 

 of femora (more deeply so at sides), tibiae except a small spot beneath 

 at apex, and tarsi, bright yellow ; wings clear hyaline iridescent ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen with long white pile. 



