^BT. 15. EEVISION OF THE MUTILLJD WASPS MICKEL. 43 



1887. Sphaerophthalma brazoria Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, suppl. 



vol., p. 265, female. 

 1897. Mutilla brazoria Dalle Torre, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 17, female. 

 1899. Mutilla montivaga Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 227, 



female (part). 

 1903. MutiUa montivaga Melander, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 29, p. 

 294, female (part). 



Type. — Female, Texas, in collection of American Entomological 

 Society of Philadelphia. 



Specimens exatnined. — Texas: Female, May 9, 1906, Cotulla (J. C. 

 Crawford); female, July 1-2, 1916, Marathon; female, Austin; 

 female, Round Mountain; 2 females. 



This species is quite distinct from the female of propinqua Cres- 

 son and may be distinguished, aside from general color, by the vesti- 

 ture of the abdominal tergites which is almost entirely golden, and 

 by its coarser puncturation. 



37. PSEUDOMETHOCA CARBONARIA, new specieg. 



Plate 4, fig. 16. 



Male. — Black ; length 8 mm. Head black, rather quadrate, clothed 

 with long, sparse, erect, silvery pubescence; mandibles tridentate; 

 clypeus feebly bidentate medially, obscurely punctured; antennae 

 separated at the base by a distance equal to half the length of tlie 

 scape; scape punctate and pubescent; first joint of flagellum shorter 

 than the second; front with coarse, confluent punctures; vertex with 

 coarse, sparse, irregularly placed punctures; genae regularly 

 punctate ; eyes slightly ovate, the distance between the hind margins 

 of the eyes and the postero-lateral angles equal to five-sevenths of the 

 longitudinal diameter of the eyes; head not as wide as the thorax. 



Thorax black, clothed with long, sparse, erect, silvery pubescence; 

 pronotum and scutellum with coarse, confluent punctures; mesonotum 

 with coarse, separated punctures; dorsum and posterior face of 

 propodeum broadly and shallowly reticulate; humeri rbunded; 

 propleura with separated punctures, the cephalic margin rounded; 

 mesepisternum and mesepimeron with coarse, confluent punctures; 

 metapleura polished, with a microscopic silvery pile; sides of pro- 

 podeum polished, with a few scattered punctures, and rugose at the 

 posterior margin; tegulae subhemispherical, polished, punctate and 

 pubescent at the extreme base and sides. 



Abdomen black, clothed with sparse, long, erect, silvery pu- 

 bescence; first segment completely sessile with the second; first 

 tergite with elongate punctures on the disk, a very thin band of 

 silvery pubescence at the apex; second tergite with coarse, sparse 

 punctures about their own diameter apart; apices of second, third, 



