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this varying from yellow with a narrow median stripe and the clypeal 

 suture brownish to entirely brownish except the orbits and a small 

 spot below each antenna. The thorax, except for the usual yellow 

 markings, varies from entirely black with faint reddish reflections 

 on the mesosternum to distinctly reddish both below and above, with 

 the scutellum especially bright, and with a distinct whitish mark 

 on each side of the middle of the mesoscutum. The tergites are 

 frequently very narrowly edged with white though sometimes en- 

 tirely black. The hind tibiae are usually very dark fuscous but 

 occasionally pale fuscous, and the extent of dark color on the tarsal 

 joints varies widely. 



The only male that I have seen is 5.5 mm. long. It has the mesocu- 

 tum and mesopleura and metapleura red, the face entirely yellow, 

 the front and middle legs white except faint indications of tibial and 

 tarsal annulations, the hind coxae stramineous, the trochanters and 

 the femora outside (largely) white; the tibiae and tarsi colored as 

 in female but the white somewhat more extensive. The cheeks are 

 normal. The hind tibiae are about as long as the femora and first 

 trochanter joint together and about equal in length to the first four 

 tarsal joints. The abdomen is very slender and parallel sided with 

 the first tergite twice as long as wide at apex and the others only 

 about three-fourths as wide as long. 



Say's type was from Indiana and Cresson's from Massachusetts. 

 Other specimens are from Anglesea, New Jersey (F. Haimbach) ; 

 Washington, District of Columbia (F. C. Pratt) ; Falls Church, Vir- 

 ginia (N, Banks) ; Ocean View, Virginia (A. N. Caudell) {neotype) ; 

 Ealeigh, North Carolina; Mississippi; Texas (Belfrage). 



CLISTOPYGA PULCHRIPICTA Ashmead. 



CUstopyga pulchripicta Ashmead, Prcc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, 1890, 

 p. 448, female. Type.— Cat. No, 2114, U. S. N. M. 



Discussion based on type. 



That portion of Ashmead's description referring to the oblique 

 grooves is misleading. The grooves are not analogous to those of 

 Glypta but are far down on the sides and are not especially con- 

 spicuous. 



This species is very closely allied to if not synonymous with 

 recurva (Say), most of the distinguishing characters observed 

 being incorporated in the table to species. In addition the nervellus 

 is broken somewhat higher up and the thorax is largely red. All of 

 these characters are variable in recurva. 



The only known specimen is the type, which is from Texas, 



CLISTOPYGA MACULIFRONS, new species. 



This species is very distinct from either of the previously de- 

 scribed North American species {Clistopyga recurva (Say), Clisto- 



