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Plesiotype. — Male, July 20, Weeping Water, Nebraska, in ento- 

 mological collection of University of Nebraska. 



The female which has heretofore remained undescribed is as 

 follows : 



Female. — Ferruginous; length 8-13 mm. Head ferruginous, 

 sparsely clothed with short, semierect, golden pubescence, and scat- 

 tered, erect hairs; mandibles tridentate; antennae separated at the 

 base by a distance equal to two-fifths the length of the scape ; a curved 

 earina extending from below the eyes to the frontal tubercles ; front, 

 vertex and genae very closely, confluently punctate; longitudinal 

 carina of genae distinct ; eyes slightly ovate, the distance between the 

 hind margins and the postero-lateral angles equal to two-thirds the 

 longitudinal di9,meter of the eyes; head slightly wider than the 

 thorax. 



Thorax ferruginous, clothed with sparse, short, recumbent,, golden 

 pubescence, and scattered, erect hairs; dorsum with large, close punc- 

 tures; dorsum of propodeum and extreme upper part of posterior 

 face of propodeum reticulate, remainder of posterior face with scat- 

 tered punctures; humeri rounded; propleura punctate, the cephalic 

 margin weakly carinate; mesepisternum-mesepimeron micro-punc- 

 tate, the posterior margin with large, close punctures; metapleura 

 polished, the ventral half micro-punctate; sides of propodeum with 

 scattered punctures. 



Abdomen ferruginous; first segment completely sessile with the 

 second ; first tergite with a broad band of black ; recumbent hairs at 

 the apex, lateral extremes of the apex with silvery pubescence ; sides 

 and apical half of second tergite with well-separated punctures, the 

 hasal half rugoso-punctate, clothed with sparse, short, recumbent, 

 golden pubescence, a subapical, broad band of sparse, black pubes- 

 cence, and a narrow, apical band of silvery pubescence narrowly 

 interrupted medially by black pubescence; tergites 3-5 with silvery 

 pubescence; pygidial area distinct, rugose; second sternite with dis- 

 tinct, separated punctures; sternites 2-6 very sparsely, silvery pu- 

 bescent. 



Legs ferruginous ; sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence. 



Allotype. — Female, 1880, Selma, Alabama (E. A. Schwarz). Col- 

 lection of U. S. National Museum. Keared with males from cells 

 of Nomia pattoni Cockerell. 



Specimens examined. — Alabama : 3 males and a female, 1880, Selma 

 (E. A. Schwarz) ; male, July 31, 1916, Dothan. Arkansas: Female, 

 September, 1890, Pine Bluffs. Connecticut: Female, September 2, 

 1909, Lyme (A. Champlain). Florida: Female. Georgia: 2 males, 

 September 6, 1915, Bainbridge (Rehn and Hebard) ; female, June, 

 1912, Billy's Island, Okefenokee Swamp (J. C. Bradley) ; female. 



