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Legs yellow, mid femur black on base, hind femora with large 

 black spot near the tip, hind tibiae also with black spot near tip; 

 hind tarsi dark. Wings infuscated, but not very dark, the stigma 

 dark brown, marginal cell no darker than rest of the wing. Body 

 not very coarsely punctate, face with dense white hair, clypeus 

 slightly, evenly convex; hair lobes rather broad, hardly one and 

 a half their breadth apart; antennae short, last joint short, not 

 curved. Enclosure roughly punctate, no striation. Abdomen 

 short, hardly longer than thorax, basal segment narrow, longer 

 than broad, not one-half the width of the second segment; pygidial 

 area not much wider at base than at tip, not one and a half times 

 as long as broad ; in the wings the first recurrent runs into second 

 submarginal cell before middle. Body densely long haired, especi- 

 ally noticeable on the thorax, the hair here twice as long as in most 

 species. 



Length 6 mm. 



From Walde, Texas. 

 Eucerceris apicata, n. sp. 



Male reddish, face yellow up to the ocelli; the pronotum, scutel- 

 lum, postscutellum, two oblique spots on the enclosure, tegulae, 

 tubercles, two large spots on pleura below tegulae, large side spot 

 on the metathorax, all yellow. On the anterior part of the mesono- 

 tum are four yellow streaks, and between them the surface is black- 

 ish. Abdomen yellow, the narrow basal part of each segment 

 reddish to blackish; venter with yellow side spots on the basal 

 segments. Legs reddish, with yellow on front of the femora and 

 tibiae of anterior and middle pairs. Wings hyaline, a dark cloud 

 from the second submarginal and marginal cell out to tip, this spot 

 not extending basally. Body rather coarsely punctate, but the 

 enclosure smooth ; third and fourth ventral segments with erect 

 row of yellow hairs. Related to El canalicidatns; the second 

 submarginal cell more quadrangular, and the smooth enclosure 

 distinctive. 



Length 11 mm. 



From Yuma, Arizona. 

 Philanthus assimilis, n. sp. 



Male close to P. bilunatiis; thorax and abdomen smooth as in 

 that species, enclosure with the pit as in bilunatiis. Markings about 



