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beneath and at the tip above, pedicellum beneath, first joint of flagellum 

 beneath, a hne behind the eyes and sometimes two spots back of the ocelli, 

 lemon-yellow; flagellum entirely rufo-testaceous but darker above than below. 

 Thorax black, sparsely punctured; mesoscutum anteriorly and mcsoscutellum, 

 impressed medially; upper surface of propodeum inclined to be finely rugose 

 medially; line on pronotum, posterior lobes of pronotum, spot on episterna 

 above, four spots on the anterior part of the mesoscutum (sometimes obsolete), 

 and metanotum, lemon-yellow; (in one paratype there are two yellow spots 

 on the mcsoscutellum ; in another the mesoscutellum is entirely yellow) . Abdo- 

 men black, a little more closely punctured than the thorax; ventrally with the 

 large punctures closely interspersed with very minute ones; first tergite with 

 two large lateral spots and a narrow transverse apical spot lemon-yellow; 

 second tergite with a wide yellow band which is somewhat narrowed medially, 

 and with very small, lateral, black spots near the apex of the tergite; tergites 

 three to five with a narrow, apical, yellow band, suddenly and much dilated 

 at the sides; apical tergite usually immaculate, sometimes with lateral yellow 

 spots; venter immaculate. Coxae and trochanters black, tinged with rufous 

 beneath and usually with a very small yellow spot at the apex beneath; basal 

 half of front femora, basal two-thirds of intermediate femora and all of hind 

 femora except the tips, rufous; remainder of femora lemon-yellow; tibiae lemon- 

 yellow and tarsi yellowish at the base, the color becoming rufous on the apical 

 joints. Wings tinged with fuscous, yellow at the base; stigma and nervures 

 testaceous; submedian cell in anterior wings slightly shorter than the median. 



Type, a male collected at Harrison, Nebraska, August 4, 1908, 

 (R. W. Dawson) : one paratype, Glen, Nebraska, August 8, 

 1905; one paratype, Glen, Nebraska, August 13, 190G on Cleome 

 scrrulata, (M. H. Swenk) ; one paratype. Glen, Nebraska, August 

 17, 1906, (H. S. Smith) ; one paratype, Warbonnet Canyon, 

 Nebraska, July 20, 1901, on Petalostemuni sp., (M. Gary); two 

 paratypes, Mitchell, Nebraska, July 17, 1916, on Melilotus alha, 

 (C. E. Mickel); two paratypes, Mitchell, Nebraska, July 21, 1916, 

 (C. E. Mickel) and three paratypes, Mitchell, Nebraska, July 

 22, 1916, (C. E. Mickel). 



This is a very distinct species and can easily be distinguished 

 by the rufous femora, the coloration and puncturation of the 

 abdomen and the wings being tinged with fuscous rather than 

 hyaline. 



Ococletes bicinctus .sp. nov. 



9 . Length IS to 2.3 mm. Black, shining, clothed with rather long, yellow- 

 ish pubescence (very sparse on abdominal segnu^nts two to six). Head black; 

 clypeus rather sparsely punctate, apical margin ciliate; front finely and rather 

 closely punctate; vertex and cheeks very sparsely punctate, appearing almost 

 impunctate; mandibles except the tips, clypeus entirely, front up to the emar- 



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