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about as far from eye-margiii as the length of third joint of antennte; cly- 

 peus 3-clentate, mustache yellowish ; mandibles yellow, rufous tipped ; scape 

 yellow, second anteunal joint black, rest ferruginous, darker above, filiform, 

 third joint as long as 4-5 combined. Thorax with a silvery growth of hair longer 

 below; black, interrupted line on collar, spot below, scutellum anteriorly, post, 

 scutellum. large spot on posterior angles, tegulse, tubercles and spot back of same 

 yellow ; mesothorax with fine close punctures, wrinkled ; scutellum shining, with 

 medium sized punctures; metathorax with medium sized punctures, elevation not 

 shining, indistinctly divided by suture, a small cavity above. Abdomen not 

 hairy above, closely and mediumly punctured, black with lemon-yellow band on 

 .segments 1-5 (constricted medially on 1-2) located about the middle of the seg- 

 ment, a yellow dot sometimes on segment 6; venter with a few hairs, sometimes 

 yellow marked. Legs black with last half or so of femora, tibia except rufous 

 colored spot inside, yellow; tarsi incliaed to rufous. Wings not clouded, some- 

 times tinged with fulvous, nervures light fuscous, stigma darker, a light spot 

 before. 



Hah. — Montana, Colorado, New Mexico (on Bigelovin wrightii 

 by Prof. Cockerel! in the Mesilla Valley, also at Santa Fe). Twenty- 

 seven specimens. 



Apliilanthops elsise n. sp. 



<2 . — Length 14 mm. Black with yellow markings. Head finely and closely 

 punctured, except on face a rather long growth of ferruginous hair, black except 

 face and line behind eyes, which are yellow (two black lines forming a discon- 

 nected band anTl surrounded by yellow on face, which is marked \ike SKbfrigidns) : 

 eyes farther apart than their greatest length ; hind ocelli about two-thirds of the 

 distance of the length of third antennal joint from eye-margin, no smooth shining 

 spot behind : clypeus 5-dentate. edged with brown hairs; mandibles black, yellow 

 outwardly at base, piceous at tip ; scape yellow tipped, flagellum black, suhfiliform. 

 third antennal joint longer than 4-5 combined. Thorax black, collar, post-scu- 

 tellum, scutellum. posterior angles, tegulfe, spot before, small spot on tubercles 

 and larger spot behind, all yellow; a growth of ferruginous hair, longer below 

 and posteriorly; mesothorax finely and closely punctured, wrinkled: scutellum 

 finely and closely punctured, smooth shining, in center; metathorax more closely 

 punctured, elevation not smooth shining, not divided by suture, a circular 

 cavity above (like subfrigidns). Abdomen subdepressed ; a few scattered liairs. 

 mostly on first segment; finely and closely punctured, more deeply on first: 

 black, large spots on first, barely interrupted bands on 2-4, band on 5, a mark on 

 pygidium, yellow : pygidium margined, /»%(d(ts-like, but larger; claspers small, 

 protruding beyond pygidium the distance of the length of penultimate tarsal 

 joint ; venter yellow marked, not hairy, smooth, with very few punctures. Legs 

 yellow, except base of tibia; trochanters and coxse black with yellow spots. 

 Wings clear, stigma and nervures ferruginous, no light spot before stigma. 



One specimen, California (deposited by W. J. Fox in Acad. Nat. 



Science). 



A|>liilaiitlio|»s taiiriiliiM Ckll. 



AphUaiithops tanrulas Cockerell. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxii, p. 293 (189.">). 

 9. — Length 11 mm. Black with i)ale yellow markings. Head strongly and 

 closely punctured, covered with a short growth of silvery hair; black, except 



TRAXS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXV. FEBRUARY, 1898. 



