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separated at the base bj^ a distance equal to half the length of the 

 scape; eyes slightly ovate; front, vertex and genae with close, shal- 

 low, confluent punctures; genae with a longitudinal carina which 

 originates at the postero-lateral angles, not dentate, sparsely silvery 

 I)ubescent; relative widths of head and thorax 1-1. 



Thorax ferruginous, distinctly longer than wide; its dorsum 

 clothed with sparse, appressed, silvery pubescence, and sparse, erect, 

 black hairs; dorsum of thorax with close, shallow, confluent punc- 

 tures in the prothoracic and mesothoracic area, the metathoracic and 

 propoaeal area very broadly reticulate ; posterior face of propodeum 

 for the most part smooth, divided longitudinally by a carina ; hu- , 

 meral angles dentate; propleura with separated punctures; remain- 

 der of sides of thorax smooth and shining. 



Abdomen ferruginous; first tergite with sparse, silvery pubescence^ 

 closely, confluently punctured at the apex; second tergite with a 

 round spot of appressed, silvery pubescence each side, laterally with 

 appressed, silvery pubescence, remainder of tergite with sparse, black 

 appressed pubescence and sparse, black, erect hairs; tergites 3 and 4 

 with moderate, well-separated punctures, sparse, erect hairs, and a 

 band of silvery pubescence at the apex; tergites 5 and 6 with black 

 pubescence; pygidial area well defined, closely and minutely punc- 

 tate; second sternite with well-separated, moderate punctures; all 

 the sternites sparsely, silvery pubescent. 



Legs ferruginous, sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence. 



Holotype. — Female, August 19, Pecos, New Mexico (W. P. Cock- 

 erell), in collection of American Entomological Societj^^ of Philadel- 

 phia. 



Paratype. — Female, August 18, Pecos, New Mexico (Cockerell), 

 author's collection. 



This species is easily recognized by the dentate humeri, punctate 

 pygidial area, and sparse pubescence of the head. 



A note on the paratype by T. D. A. Cockerell reads : " Running 

 around among burrows of Melissodes sphaerdlceae. However, my 

 wife finds that it does not enter the Melissodes burrows, but enters 

 much smaller burrows, very likely of Galliopsis!''' 



11. PSEUDOMETHOCA AFRICA (Melander). 



1903. Mutilla apnea Melander, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 29, p. 323, 

 female. 



Type. — Female, Texas, in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. 



Specimens examined. — Texas: Female, June 2, 1909, Fedor, Lee 

 County (Birkman) : 7 females, October, 1908, Lee County (Birk- 

 man) ; female, 1908, Lee County (Birkman), 



I have examined the type of this species and find that it is a true 

 Pseudomethoca and does not belong in the '"'"anthopliorae " group 



