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yellow hair. Venter with fulvous hair at tips of basal segments, the apical 

 third almost covered with fulvous hair. Tarsi yellow ; tibial spurs yellow ; 

 basal abdominal segment with two transverse yellow spots behind, not 

 quite touching. Second and third segments each with two large yellow 

 spots nearly reaching base, and more widely separated in front than 

 behind, and each rather notched on inner side. Pygidial area covered 

 with short scale-like tanny hairs. Head and thorax coarsely punctate, but 

 the lower part of metanotal slope smooth ; abdomen with scattered finer 

 punctures ; venter more coarsely punctate, second ventral with a transverse 

 smooth area. Posterior side of hind femora smooth, except punctate near 

 base and a streak of punctures reaching toward the tip ; tibial spurs long, 

 slightly spatulate at tip ; antennae short, curved and heavy, basal joints 

 punctate. Wings slightly smoky, the costal area fulvous and with fulvous 

 hair ; beyond stigma is a dark cloud. 



Length i6 mm. 



From Palmeilee, Arizona. Similar to Elis Itmosa Sauss., but the 

 abdomen marked differently, and that species has sharp pointed spurs and 

 more white hair on femora and venter. 



TiPHIID/E 



Scoliphia, n. gen. — With the venation as in Epomidiopteron and 

 Paratiphia; with marginal cells in female open, in male closed, first 

 cubital cross-vein not reaching across; the first recurrent vein curved back 

 above \ stigma very small in both sexes. MesonTrtum with a sulcus each 

 side ; tegulas extremely long, twice as long as broad. Basal abdominal 

 segment with a transverse carina, truncate in front ; second ventral pro- 

 duced prominently in front. The large tegulas and second ventral segment 

 like Epojiiidiopteron ; but the carina on basal segments like Paratiphia. 

 In general appearance it is like EpomidiopteroUs 



Scoliphia spilota, n. sp. — 9 black ; coarsely punctate ; a white spot 

 on each side of clypeus, on each humerus of pronotum, on mesopleura, a 

 median spot on scutellum and postscutellum ; spot on each side of basal 

 three segments of abdomen, that on the second largest ; sixth segment 

 white across base ; wings black, violaceous. Clypeus elevated, rounded 

 below, a faint transverse furrow above the ocelli, head sparsely gray-haired, 

 pronotum with anterior carina black-haired above, mesonotum smooth in 

 middle, likewise on scutellum and postscutellum ; latter with a pit each 

 side. Metanotum with large basal area coarsely confluently punctate and 



