44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vr>L. G4. 



and fourth tergites with a prominent band of silvery pubescence; 

 tergites 3-6 distinctly punctate; sternite two with irregular, sparse 

 punctures. 



Wings subfuscous; cell R4 almost obsolete; vein M 3+4 received 

 by cell R5 a little before the middle. 



Legs black, sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence; calcaria 

 pale. 



Holotype. — Male, June, Brownsville, Texas, in entomological col- 

 lection of University of Kansas. 



Paratype.—MvilQ, Texas, Cat. No. 26396 U.S.N.M. 



38. PSEUDOMETHOCA VANDUZEI Bradley. 



Plate 4, fig. 14. 



1916. Pscudomethoca {Nomiaephagiis) vanduzei Bradley, Trans. Amer.. 

 Ent. Soc. vol. 42, p. 321, male. 



Type. — Male, Clearwater, Florida, in American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Plesiotype. — Male, May 3, 1906, Lee County, Texas, in en- 

 tomological collection of University of Kansas. 



The genitalia of the type and plesiotype have been compared 

 and found to be identical. This record extends the range of 

 vanduzei considerably. 



39. PSEUDOMETHOCA RUSSEOLA, new species. 



Plate 4, fig. 19. 



Male. — Black and ferruginous ; length 8 mm. Head black, 

 sparsely clothed with long, erect, silvery pubescence; mandibles tri- 

 dentate ; clypeus bidentate medially, distinctly punctate throughout ; 

 antennae separated at the base by a distance equal to half the length 

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

 a little shorter than the second : front and genae closely, confluently 

 punctate ; vertex with large, close punctures ; eyes slightly ovate, dis- 

 tance between the hind margins of the eyes and the postero-lateral 

 angles equal to half the longitudinal diameter of the eyes; head not 

 as wide as the thorax. 



Thorax black, sparsely clothed with long, erect, silvery pubesence; 

 pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum with large, close, more or less 

 confluent punctures; dorsum and upper third of posterior face of 

 propodeum broadly reticulate, remainder of posterior face sparsely 

 rugoso-punctate ; humeri rounded; propleura deepl}^, confluently 

 punctate, the cephalic margin rounded; mesopisternum and mese- 

 pimeron coarsely, confluently punctate; metapleura polished, finely 

 I'ugose on the posterior half; sides of propodeum polished, the pos- 



