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5. PSEUDOMETHOCA GILA (Blake). 



1871. Mutilki (Sphaerophthalma) gila Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 

 vol. 3, p. 250, male. 



1886. Sphaeropht7iaImn gila Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vo), 13, p. 245, 



male. 



1887. Sphaerophthahiw gila Ceesson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. suppl. vol., 



p. 265, male. 

 1897. Mutilla gila Dalle Torre, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 43, male. 

 1899. Mutilla gila Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. vol. 25, p. 225, male. 

 1903. Pseudomethoca? gila Andr^, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 31, p. 28, male. 



Type. — Male, Texas, in collection of American Entomological So- 

 ciety of Philadelphia. 



I have examined the genitalia of the type specimen of this species. 

 It is of the same general type as that found in canadensis Blake and 

 athamas Fox. Time was not available for making a drawing of 

 the genitalia. P. nepliele Fox may be the female of this species. 



6. PSEUDOMETHOCA TOUMEYI (Fox). 



1894. Sphaerophthalma toumcyi Fox, Ent. News, vol, 5, p. 297, female. 

 1897. Mutilla toumeiii Dalle Torke, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 92, female. 

 1899. Mutilla toumcyi Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 223, female. 

 1903. Pseudomethoca? toumcyi Andr^, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc 11, p. 28, 

 female. 



Type. — Female, Tucson, Arizona, in collection of American En- 

 tomological Society of Philadelphia. 



I have examined the type of this species and find that the posterior 

 angles of the head are not spinose as Fox states in his description. 

 The postero-lateral angles of the head are very sharply carinate, the 

 carina extending slightly upon the vertex laterally, but they are not 

 spinose. The clypeus is very prominent in this species, more so 

 than in related forms, being produced at right angles to the front. 

 Only the type and paratype have been seen. 



7. PSEUDOMETHOCA BEQUAERTI, new species. 



Female. — Ferruginous; size 4.5-6 mm. Head ferruginous, denselj 

 clothed with appressed, pale golden pubescence and long, sparse, 

 erect hairs; mandibles tridentate; antennae separated at their base 

 by a distance equal to half the length of the scape; eyes slightly 

 ovate; front, vertex and genae with close, well defined, separated 

 punctures ; genae with a carina which originates at the postero-lateral 

 angles of the head and terminates in a slight tooth at its cephalic 

 end ; relative widths of head and thorax, 9-6. 



Thorax ferruginous; its dorsum sparsely clothed with a mixture 

 of black and silvery pubescence, the black more apparent; thorax 

 short, very slightly longer than wide; cephalic portion of thorax 

 very closely, confluently punctate, the sculpture becoming striato- 

 reticulate on the mesothoracic area, and reticulate on the propodeal 



