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face and cheeks with short, thick, black hairs; crown with somewhat scat- 

 tered red hairs. Eyes round, prominent. Thorax ovate, slightly broader 

 than head, pitch-black, strongly punctured; the punctures on the meta- 

 thorax are so extremely large and close together that this portion might 

 justly be described as reticulate. The dorsum of the pro- and meso- 

 thorax is densely clothed with very brilliant orange-red hairs; the hairs 

 on the metathorax are somewhat longer, not so dense and black; first 

 abdominal segment widened gradually, large, not at all nodose, practically 

 sessile upon the second. Abdomen suboval, not very much longer than 

 thorax, pitch-black, closely punctured; first and second segments clothed 

 with black hairs, which are short and rather sparse on the second; dorsum 

 and sides of the remaining segments thickly clothed with brilliant orange- 

 red hairs. Antennae black, the tips somewhat pale. Legs black, with 

 short black hairs like those on underside of abdomen. Wings smoky- 

 brown, marginal cell subquadrate, its costo-proximal angle the sharpest, 

 the costo-distal nearly a right angle; second submarginal receiving recur- 

 rent nervure before its middle; a hyaline spot just below apex of second 

 submarginal, Length about n mm.; of front wing 8 mm. 



Hab. Zuni River, Arizona, July 28th (C. H. T. Tovvnsencl), 

 one specimen. 



Notwithstanding the difference in the shape of the first abdom- 

 inal segment, this seems to be closely related to .5". coc$ineohirta, 

 from which it may be readily distinguished by the shape of the 

 abdomen, and by the greater length of the marginal cell in coc- 

 cineohirta in proportion to its breadth. The hyaline line crossing 

 the second submarginal cell in coccineohirta is barely indicated in 

 townsendi. The coccineohirta used for comparison is a pallid va- 

 riety found at Las Cruces, N. Mex. I have not seen the Califor- 

 nian type. 



Photopsis territus n. sp. Ckll. <$. Head and antennae honey-color, eyes 

 large, black, shining, head round, shining; first joint of flagellum shorter 

 than second, and very short in comparison to the same joint in P. mellipes, 

 which resembles the present species in its pale legs. Thorax elongate- 

 ovate, honey-color, with sparse, pale hairs, finely punctate; metathorax 

 swollen, reticulate, with long white hairs. Abdomen elongate, petiolate; 

 petiole joint moderately long, fairly stout, not much swollen, terminally 

 subsessile, strongly punctured, hirsute with white hairs; abdomen rather 

 narrow, shining, tapering, honey-color, with the terminal third more or 

 less fuscous, hirsute with sparse, long, white hairs, and shorter ones fring- 

 ing the ends of the segments. Legs pale yellowish, with long white 

 hairs. Wings clear, hyaline, spotless, slightly iridescent, venation ex- 

 tremely pale; stigma honey-yellow, somewhat more than half included in 

 marginal cell; marginal cell lanceolate, obliquely truncate at tip; first sub- 

 marginal elongate, narrower than marginal; second submarginal irregu- 



