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Fairly ;ommon in western Kansas, where it frequents sandy places; 

 one fresh o , taken at Lawrence, Douglas county, Kansas, June 12, 1913. 



Tachysphex clarconis Vier. 

 (Fig. 69, clypeus, 5 .) 



Tachysphex clarconis Viereck; Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XXXII, 211; 



1906. 5 . 



o . Not stout. Anterior margin of clypeus broadly subtruncate, 

 .slightly produced mesad, not dentate laterally, very closely punctate at 

 base; antennse moderately slender, joint two about one-half the length 

 of 3, which is three-fourths of 4 ; interocular space about equal to 

 joints 2-4; frons finely and shallowly granulate, becoming separate 

 punctate towards ocelli; vertex with sparse punctations, ocellar line 

 deep, a shining fold behind each posterior ocellus has somewhat the 

 appearance of a second pair of ocelli ; vertex depressed a little below 

 the level of the eyes; thorax polished, with rather fine, shallow and 

 separate punctures; disc of propodeum moderately granulate, with an 

 indication of a median impressed line, sides shining, shallowly fine- 

 punctuate or imperfectly reticulate, the posterior face shining, nearly 

 smooth, with a deep wedge-shaped fovea; legs feebly spinose; venation 

 rather weak, the marginal cell rather narrowly and very little obliquely 

 truncate, second submarginal cell a little wider than the third along the 

 radius; pygidium well defined, hardly two times as long as its basal 

 width, sparse punctate, very Kttle constricted preapically. Black: legs 

 dull brownish apically; abdomen red, largely black on the ventral seg- 

 ments 1-5; apex of pygidium dark brown. Pile sparse except on face. 

 Length, 7 mm. (type) . 



One o ; Clark county, Kansas; May; F. H. Snow. 



"Related to terminatus." — Vier. 



Tachysphex quebecensis (Prov.). 



Larva qiiebecencis Prov.; Faun. Ent. Can., II, 633. ^ g . 



Tachysphex quebecencis Fox; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil.. .527-8; 



1893. ^ 2 ■ 



This species is reported by Bridwell, who collected it near Baldwin. 

 Douglas county, Kansas. 



Tachysphex a;thiops (Cress.) ^ is reported from northwestern Kan- 

 sas, September. 1877 (S. W. WilHston, Coll.) by W. H. Patton (Bull. 

 U. S. Geol. and Geog. Sur. Terr., V, No. 3.349-70; 1879-'81.) His de- 

 scription of the specimen, however, is far from agreeing with that of 

 Fox for the ^ , and leads "me to believe that the insect taken in 1877 

 is really a Larropsis, which fits in description, as far as it goes. 



Tachysphex minimus (Fox). 

 Tachytes minimus Fox; Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XIX, 248; 1892. ^ . 

 Tachysphex minimus Fox; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 532-3; 1893. j . 

 Bridwell (Kan. Acad Sci., 208; Dec, 1898) reports this insect from 

 Kansas. The abdomen varies from entirely black to red at the base. Tt 

 occurs also in Nebraska. 



