TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 231 



< erceris jucunda, n. sp. 



%. — Black, clothed with pale yellowish pubescence,- face, orbits on eacli 

 side of antennae, clypeus, two nearly contiguous spots on prothorax above, 

 scutellum and spot on tegulae anteriorly, lemon-yellow; face and clypeus 

 sparsely and coarsely punctured, the latter subconvex ; mandibles entirely 

 black; antennas blackish above, pale fulvous beneath and at tip of apical joint 

 which is straight and obtuse; basal space of metathorax punctured smooth at 

 base; tegulae pale fulvous behind; wings subhyaline, the costa beyond stigma 

 broadly fuliginous; legs lemon-yellow, all the femora and posterior tibiae ex- 

 cept base pale ferruginous, four anterior femora yellow at tips beneath ; an- 

 terior coxae, base of two posterior pair, base of femora more or less and spot on 

 posterior tibia? behind, black; posterior tarsi dusky; abdomen shining, with 

 deep, not dense, punctures, all the segments, except the last, with a continu- 

 ous apical lemon-yellow band, broader on second segment; venter shining, 

 with a continuous apical lemon-yellow band, broader on second segment; 

 venter shining, with a median yellow band on second and third segments. 

 Length .36 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. (Jr. W. Belfrage.) 



('erceris Kennicottii. 



Cerceris Kennicottii, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, v., p. 128. 

 One % specimen. (Belfrage.) 



MASARIDtE. 



Masaris texana. 



Masaris texana, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 348, % 9- 

 Five £ 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Masaris occidentalis. 



Masaris occidentalis, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 348, 9- 

 % . — Color paler than in 9 > especially the face, clypeus and prothorax which 

 are nearly yellow; much less coarsely sculptured; clypeus smaller, feebly 

 punctured; the front as high up as, and enclosing, the posterior ocelli, and 

 narrow orbits yellowish ; antennae ; thorax as in J , the fulvous mark- 

 ings paler, the prothorax anteriorly being yellow; abdomen colored much as 

 in 9 > narrower, gradually narrowed to apex, shining at base of the segments 

 where they are more or less contracted, apical segment bifid at tip, the teeth 

 obtuse, distant and slightly divaricate, beneath the tip the segment is produced 

 into a transverse process, subemarginate at apex, anterior to this on each side 

 a prominent rounded, scale-like carina; third ventral segment with a long, 

 longitudinally flattened process on basal middle, truncate at tip and slightly 

 hooked posteriorly. Length .65 inch. 



Two % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) The antennae are unfortunately 

 wanting in the % specimen. In size this species is about equal with 

 vespoides. 



