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the base of the anterior metatarsus; it is fringed below with long white hair; 

 the other joints have white spines on both sides; this being also the case with 

 the other legs. I should think that the femoral spines vary in number and 

 form; they are not the same in the same specimen. The wings are not twice 

 longer than the thorax. Second ventral segment not dentate. 



Fedor, Texas. 



Characteristic is the flat dilated apical joint of the fore tarsi, with 

 the peculiar dilated inner claw. As the structural peculiarities of 

 the male have not been described by American writers, the al)Ove 

 description may be useful in helping to identify the species, which, 

 so far as coloration is concerned, is very variable. 



Benibe.v spinolie Lep. 

 Sapello Canon, Las Vegas, New Mexico; Berkeley, Colorado; 

 Three Rivers, California. 



Steiiiola scolopacea Hand. 

 Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. 



iliteniola obliqua Cress. 

 Durango, Colorado. 



Beinbidula veiitrali!$ S:iy. 

 Sapello Canon, New Mexico. 



SCOLIID.^. 

 ^^^lesia (.Myziiie) nigropilosella sp. nov. 

 Black, densely covered all over with black pubescence, the wings uniformly 

 dark fuscous-violaceous, the uervures and stigma black ; the head, protliorax 

 and mesothorax strongly, but not closely punctured, the front more closely and 

 rugosely than the vertex, the median segment much more closely, strongly ru- 

 gosely punctured ; the mesonotum and scutellum with only large, scattered punc- 

 tures; the centre of the former raised slightly, the raised part bordered by a 

 crenulated furrow, the centre with a furrow formed of deep punctures, close 

 together; the sides, except at the base and apex, are bordered by an almost 

 impunctate furrow; the part between these and the tegulaj smooth. Clypeus 

 raised in the centre, narrowed towards the apex, whicli is depressed and tian.«- 

 verse; the puncturation deep, the punctures large, clearly separated. Sides of 

 metanotum broadly rounded, the centre depressed. Abdomen smooth, shining. 

 Pleurse, except the lower part of the n\etapk'ura'. strongly, closely punctured. 

 The second and third abscissae of radius almost equal in length ; the lower part 

 of first transverse cubital nervure straight, hullated at its Junction with the 

 cubitus; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly beyond, the second more 

 distinctly behind the middle of the cellule ; the third transverse cubital nervure 

 roundly curved. Tarsi tinged with brown. 9- Length 16 mm. 



Gallinas Canon, New Mexico (Oslar). 



TBANfc A.M. KNT. .SOC. XXXIV. - JULY. 1908 



