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slopes away in a nearly straight line toward the side of the olyj)eus, disappear- 

 ing before reaching the same and thus setting off a not very deep triangular 

 basin with two tall sides and a not very wide base, its bottom roughened, not 

 polished, the carinae each with a weak median tooth; anterior margin of cly- 

 peus not reflexed. Third antennal segment broader than Ijody, about two- 

 thirds the length of the fourth. 



Dorsum with sculpture and vestiture as described for tegulicia, l)ut the 

 humeral angles are much less pronounced, hardly carinate, the ol:)liciue carinae 

 on the sides of the pronotum weak and concealed b}' vestitiu'e. The tegulae 

 are large, but not thick as in tegulicia, evenly Ijut not strongly convex, without 

 a median ridge, very sparsely, finely and minutely punctulate, the punctures 

 uneven and apically almost wanting. Dorsal face of propodeum coarsely 

 reticulate, the reticulations smaller and more niunerous than in t<-(/idicia, 

 with a median longitudinal irregular area; basallj- with ap])i'essed silky pubes- 

 cence, the posterior face separated from the dorsal by an indistinct irregular 

 carina, more weakly reticulate than the dorsal; the lateral faces with several 

 rows of reticulate punctures. 



Veins piceous; Sc-fR + M in the hind wings weakly violaceous, al)Out half as 

 long as the median cell. 



Petiole rather cylindrical, coarsely punctured, with a strong ventral keel, 

 not toothed; second segment evenly, closely, coarsely punctured, a little more 

 coarsely on the venter, its dorsal disc noticeal)ly flattened, laterally with large 

 areas of very fine short appressed white pubescence, which replace the felted 

 lines of many Mutillidae; the remaining dorsal segments are a little less coarsely 

 but not sparsely punctured, the punctures closer on the pygidivun, each of these 

 with a longitudinal median keel; the last ventral segment reddish, buff at base. 



Type material. — Holotype: Colorado, collection of the Amer- 

 ican Entomological Society; two paratopotypes; two paratypes 

 from Montana, all in the collection of that Society. 



All of these were included by Mr. Fox under the species 

 scrupea Say. The last ventral segment is sometimes piceous. 



Ephuta battle! n. sp. 



cf . Coal-black, the second abdominal segment red, with a darker stain 

 above, the other segments piceous; clothed with rather scanty appressed and 

 erect white pubescence, the petiole above and the apex of the second dorsal 

 segment each with a band of appressed pubescence, the latter rather meagre; 

 front wings fuscous, the median cell nearly hyaline; ai)ical third of the hind 

 wings fuscous. Length 5.5 mm. 



Head coarsely, rugosely punctured, neither more finely jmncturcd nor ob- 

 scured by vestiture below the front ocellus, above the antennae with a deep 

 median channel; ocelli unusually large, the transverse diameter of the posterior 

 ocelli .15 mm., of the anterior ocellus .15 mm.; the distance of the former from 

 ■each other .19 mm., from the eyes .28 mm., from the front ocellus .09 mm.; 

 between the antennae high carinae enclose a small, deep, square basin, from 



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