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terior half coarsely rugose; tegulae convex, polished, punctured and 

 pubescent at the base and sides. 



Abdomen ferruginous, sparsely clothed with long, erect, silvery 

 pubescence; first segment completely sessile with the second; first 

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

 silvery pubescence at the apes; second tergite with large, shallow, 

 separated punctures; tergites 3-6 distinctly punctate; tergites 2-5 

 with an obscure, thin band of black hairs at the apex; sternite two 

 with large, separated punctures ; sternites 4r-7 black. 



Wings subfuscous; cell R4 obsolete; vein R5 with a short vestige 

 of a vein projecting at right angles into cell R4 midway between 

 vein R3 and M 1+2; vein M 3-)-4 received by cell R5 considerably 

 before the middle. 



Legs black, sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence; calcaria 

 whitish. 



Holoti/pe. — Male, May 4, 1901, San Diego, Texas (R. A. Cushman), 

 Cat. No. 26211 U.S.N.M. 



This species may be easily recognized by the red abdomen, and the 

 silvery pubescence of the entire body. 



40. PSEUDOMETHOCA AEGAEON (Fox). 



Plate 4, fig. 17. 



1899. Mutilla aegaeon Fox, Trans. Anier. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 229, male. 

 1903. Ephuta aegaeon Andre, Gen. Ina, vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 57, male. 



Type. — Male, Tucson, Arizona, in U. S. National Museum. 



Plesiotype. — Male, Tucson,Arizona (F. H. Snow), in entomological 

 collection of the University of Kansas. 



Specimens examined. — Arizona : Male, August 4-7, 1916, Coyote 

 Mountains. 



The genitalia of the type and plesiotype have been compared and 

 found to be identical. 



41. PSEUDOMETHOCA MANCA, new species. 



Plate 4, fig. IS. 



Male. — Black; length 8 mm. Head black, sparsely clothed with 

 long, white, erect pubescence; mandibles tridentate; clypeus biden- 

 tate medially, finely punctate; front, vertex and genae with large, 

 more or less confluent punctures; eyes slightly ovate, distance be- 

 tween hind margins of eyes and postero-lateral angles a little less 

 than half the longitudinal diameter of the eyes; head not quite as 

 wide as the thorax. 



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

 pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum with large, confluent punc- 



