JAMES CHESTER BRADLEY 321 



Pseudomethoca (Nomiaephagus) vanduzei n. sp. 



(^ . Entirely coal-black, with short and sparse white pubescence, this brown- 

 ish on the front, vertex, and dorsum; the second and all following dorsal seg- 

 ments with close, erect, and at the apex very dense, decumbent, flame-scarlet 

 pubescence; wings deeply fuscous. Length, 14 mm. 



Vertex sparsely, front rugosely, punctured, the latter obscured by vestiture; 

 clypeus short, broad, polished, hairy, the anterior margin i)roduced medially 

 into a broad, short, bisinuate lobe, the sides of which are thickened; mandibles 

 bidentate at apex, a carina from the inner tooth to the condyle; maxillary 

 palpi compressed. Anterior surface of the scape concave, bicarinate; third 

 segment subquadrate, shorter than the fourth. 



Thorax anteriorly rounded, no line between the anterior and dorsal faces of 

 the pronotum, the humeri entirely rounded; dorsum rather closely, somewhat 

 irregularly punctate; mesopleura prominent, punctate; metapleura sunken, 

 impunctate, polished; propodeum rather coarsely reticulate, wdth two elongate 

 basal areas. The cell R4 closed by a color line. 



Abdomen slender, the first segment widened at apex and entirely sessile 

 with the second, which widens comparatively little toward the apex; petiole 

 without a noticeable ventral carina or tooth, sparsely, its disc not at all, punc- 

 tate; second segment sparsely punctate; no pygidial area. 



Type.— Clearwater, Florida, April 29, 1908, (E. P. VanDuzee), 

 [American ]\Iuseum of Natural History]. 



I take pleasure in dedicating this species to its collector, my 

 good friend, Mr. E. P. VanDuzee. Its brilliant scarlet pubes- 

 cence and shiny black ground color lend it a magnificence that is 

 scarcelj^ approached by any other North American mutillid, and 

 readily distinguish it from anj^ known species. 



Despite its bidentate mandibles there can be no doubt, from 

 its other characters, of this being a true Nomiaephagus, not dis- 

 tantly removed from such species as aegeon Fox. 



Dasjmiutilla 

 Dasymutilla (Bruesia) harmonia (Fox), 9 . 



An always scarce species of the Carolinian and Austroriparian 

 zones. 



New Jersey: Lakehurst, 1 9. Pennsylvani.\. Virginia: Falls Church 

 and Great Falls, May 30 to September 12, 8 9, (N. Banks), [N. Banks]. 

 North C.\rolina: Hot Springs, 1 9 , (Mrs. A. T. Slosson), [Mrs. A. T. Slosson]. 

 Georgia: Okefenokee Swamp, June, 1912, 2 9 , (Cornell Univ. Exp.), [Cornell 

 Univ.]; Spring Creek, Decatur County, June Z to 23, 1911, 1 9, (the author), 

 [Cornell Univ.]. Florida: Fort Myers, 1 9 , and Punta Gorda, November 13, 

 1911, 1 9, (W. T. Davis), [W. T. Davis]; Atlantic Beach, 1 9, (Mrs. A. T. 

 Slosson), [Mrs. A. T. Slosson]; Belleair, 1 9, (Mrs. A. T. Slosson), [Mrs. A. 

 T. Slosson.]. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



