284 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW SPECIES OF NOMADA AND CHYPHOTES. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, MESILLA, N. M. 



The two following descriptions were intended to be included in 

 articles discussing at some length the Nomada, spp , of New Mexico, 

 and certain Mutillidse ; but poor health having caused these to be 

 indefinitely postponed, the descriptions are presented herewith. 



Noinada gtitierrezice, n. sp. — $ . Length, 7 mm.; stout, ferruginous 

 with cream-coloured markings. Pubescence practically confined to a 

 slight hoariness around the bases of the antenna, on pleura, on meta- 

 thorax (except enclosed portion), on legs, and the hindmost half of the 

 abdomen. Head considerably broader than long, face flat, punctures 

 close on front and vertex, more sparse on face ; lower margin of clypeus 

 forming a slightly raised rim ; mandibles dark at tips, with an obscure 

 pale yellow spot near base ; ocelli on a dark patch, closer together than 

 the diameter of either ; pale face-markings confined to a broad cream- 

 coloured stripe on each side, extending from (but not on to) the clypeus 

 to a short distance before the summits of the eyes, broadest at its lowest 

 end. A small light spot behind each eye at the top. Anteimte ferrugi- 

 nous, with the flagellum becoming blackish ; first joint of flagellum about 

 as long as second and third together ; second and third about equal. 

 Mesothorax and scuiellum with very large but not particularly close 

 punctures, scutellum distinctly bilobed ; enclosed space of metathorax 

 bare, very minutely lineolately sculptured. Tegulre shining, sparsely 

 punctured, apricot colour. Hind border of prothorax, tubercles, oval 

 spot on hind part of pleura, scutellum except a dark central shade behind, 

 and postscutellum, cream colour. A small yellow spot also immediately 

 in front of each anterior angle of scutellum. Legs ferruginous, a creamy 

 dot at end of hind tibiae, and line on first joint of hind tarsi. Claws 

 very deeply cleft. Wings hyaline, with a fuliginous shade commencing 

 along basal nervure, extending through the upper part of the first 

 discoidal cell, all the submarginals and the marginal, darkening at the 

 end of the marginal, and ending in a large sufi'used apical shade, 

 between which and the third submarginal is a clear space. Nervures 

 piceous, stigma ferruginous. Third submarginal cell narrowing more 

 than half to marginal. Abdomen very finely and closely punctured ; 

 first segment with a creamy band, about twice as wide at sides as in 

 middle ; second segment with a creamy band, as narrow in middle as 

 that on first, but rapidly widening laterally, where it is at least twice as 

 broad as that on first. Third segment with a cream-coloured spot on 



