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7 Thorax velvety black; legs reddish with black tarsi. Length 



1.5 to 2min. Compare here also bracteatum (male), 



" with legs wholly brown." meridionale 



Thorax brownish blacky legs usually pale; tip of tarsi niot 



black. Length from 2 to 4mm p e c u a r u m 



8 Thorax with Siilvery white pubescence; legs brownish black, 



covered with whitish hairs. A small variety (less than 

 2mm long), from New Mexico ha» been named o c c i d e n - 



tale Town. (q. v.) m e r i d i o n a 1 & 



Thorax with yellow hairs; legs reddish brown, covered with 

 yellow hair; tip of tarsi blackish pecuarum 



9 Males, eyes contiguous (10) 



Females, eyes separated (20) 



10 " Mesouotum wholly velvet black; gray spot on Slides of the 



second, fifth, sixth, and seventh segments of abdomen. 



Length 1.5mm." bracteatum 



Metanotum striped, or with grayish or metallic reflections (11) 



11 Dorsum of thorax with one or more longitudinal stripes. (12) 



Dorsum unstriped (14) 



12 Thorax with four longitudinal stripes; posterior margin 



white; abdomen black. Sex not given. Cuban species. . . . 



quadrivittatum 



Thorax not so marked (13) 



13 Front and middle femora and tibiae wholly yellow; center of 



mesonotum with a black vitta, elsewhere gray. Length 



1.5mm. Colorado species g r i s e u m- 



Femora and tibiae wholly or partly brown. (13a> 



13a "Femora and front tibiae yellow, their apices brown; mid- 

 dle tibiae brown, a yellow ring beyond the base, hind tibiae 

 brown, the extreme base yellowish. Mesonotum marked 

 with a narrow median and laterally with a very broad 

 velvet black fascia." Length 8mm. New Mexico virgatum 



Front femora brown, tibiae brown on apical part (13b) 



13b Mesonotum with two narrow gray stripes (sometimes quite 

 indistinct) on a velvet black ground, in which there are 

 scattered golden hairs .v i 1 1 a t u m 



" Mesonotum marked with a narrow median and slightly 



wider lateral black vittae." Length 2.5mm. Missouri, .g 1 a u c u m 



14 Anterior femora yellow. Mexican species (15) 



Anterior femora black (IT) 



15 Abdomen with the base of the second segment, and the sides 



of the third, fourth, and fifth yellowish white; tibiae fus- 

 cous black with yellow bases. Length 4mm. m e x i c a n u m 



Abdomen black (16) 



16 Metallic bluish black species; middle portion of fore tibiae, 



base of middle and hind tibiae, base of first and second 

 joints of middle and hind tarsi, whitish. Length 2mm. .. 



metallicum 

 Thorax fuscous and cinereous pollinose; the humeri pallid, 

 fore coxae pale, middle and hind ones dark; femora pale at 

 the base, black at the tip; tibiae black. Length 3mm. .c i n e r e u m 



