234 E. T. CRESSON. 



Odynerus texanus, n. sp. 



J. — Ferruginous, closely and confidently punctured, clothed with a very 

 short, golden sericeous pile, more obvious in certain lights; clypeus large, eon- 

 vex, sparsely punctured, apex notched, the angles prominent and tipped with 

 black; a short sharp carina between antennae; the front except a spot above 

 base of antennae and emargination of eyes which are yellowish, a large spot 

 enclosing ocelli and two short oblique lines on occiput above, black; inner 

 edge and apex of mandibles also black; antennae black, seape and two basal 

 joints of fiagellum ferruginous ; mesothorax black on anterior middle and on 

 each side behind; scutellum narrowly black on anterior and posterior mar- 

 gins; postscutellum yellow-ferruginous; metathorax rugose above, broadly 

 and deeply excavated behind, the excavation shining and somewhat trans- 

 versely wrinkled, lateral angles prominent; wings fuscous; tarsi fuscous; ab- 

 domen long, fusco-ferruginous, sericeous; first segment narrower than second, 

 campanulate, smooth and rounded at base, very sparsely and finely punc- 

 tured, black at base, narrowly dull yellowish at apex; second segment more 

 thickly punctured than the first, narrowly black at base; the following 

 segments densely punctured; apical margin of the segments flat, not at all re- 

 flexed; venter entirely ferruginous. Length .65 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G-. W. Belf'rage.) This is of a more elongate 

 form than any of the following species, being more of the shape of 

 quadrisectm. 



Ortynerus clusinus, n. sp. 



9 .— Ferruginous, coarsely and confluently punctured, clothed with a short, 

 erect, yellow-fuscous pubescence ; head black, clypeus broad, narrowly trun- 

 cate at tip, with large sparse shallow punctures, pale yellow, more or less 

 stained with ferruginous on the disk ; front with a broad ferruginous or yellow- 

 ferruginous band filling in the emargination of eyes and enclosing two black 

 somewhat oblique marks at base of each antenna; occiput, cheeks and mandi- 

 bles ferruginous ; posterior orbits sometimes yellowish; antennae black, scape 

 and two basal joints of fiagellum ferruginous or coccineous; prothorax ferru- 

 ginous, with a more or less distinct yellow band on anterior middle, sometimes 

 continued narrowly on posterior margin; mesothorax black, a broad ferrugin- 

 ous stripe on disk not reaching anterior margin, before scutellum two short ex- 

 cavations; scutellum flat, shining, with large sparse punctures, posterior margin 

 narrowly black; postscutellum yellow; metathorax deeply excavated behind, 

 lateral ongles more or less yellow, posterior face shining, black at tip, trans- 

 versely somewhat obliquely striated: pleura ferruginous laterally, with a yel- 

 low spot beneath tegulae, beneath black; tegulae yellow, pupilled witli ferrugi- 

 nous ; wings subhyaline, sometimes fusco-hyaliue, costa yellow to stigma, 

 fuliginous beyond; legs ferruginous, tibiae more or less yellow on outer side ; 

 abdomen strongly pale sericeous ; first segment as broad as second, rounded at 

 base, smooth, impunctured, ferruginous, black at base, with a broad yellow 

 band at apex, suddenly dilated laterally; second segment smooth, impunc- 

 tured, except subapical margin which is deeply punctured, ferruginous, base 

 narrowly black, apex broadly yellow, gradually dilated laterally; remaining 

 segments deeply and coarsely punctured, yellow, black or ferruginous at bas^i, 



