AKT. 15. REVISIOlsr OF THE MUTILLTD WASPS MICKEL. 21 



19. PSEUDOMETHOCA HARPALYCE (Fox). 



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

 1993. Ephuta harpalyce Andbk. Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 60, female. 

 1903. Mutilla harpahjce Viereck, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., vol. 54, p. 743, 

 female. 



Tt/pe.— Female, California, in collection of American Entomologi- 

 cal Society of Pliilaclelpliia. 



/Specimens examin£d.—Caliiorn'm : Female, April 12, 1914, Los 

 Angeles (Fisk) : 5 females, Los Angeles County; 2 females, Fresno 

 (E. A. Scliwarz) ; 3 females, San Bernardino County; 3 females, 

 Claremont (Baker) ; 2 females, September 12, 1917, Santa xA.na canon, 

 Orange County; female, August 12, 1917, Santa Ana Canon, 

 Orange County; female, May 13, 1907, Eedwood, Corralitos, St. 

 Cruz Mountains (J. C. Bradley) ; female, July 16, 1917, La Jolla, 

 San Diego County (H. Klotz) ; female August 26, 1917, La Jolla, 

 San Diego County (H. Klotz) ; female, August 28, 1917, La Jolla, 

 San Diego County (H. Klotz) ; female, San Diego; female, San 

 Diego County; female. 



This is very probabl^y the female of anthracina Fox. These are the 

 only two species of this section of the genus that are present in col- 

 lections from California. 



20. PSEUDOMETHOCA FLAMMIGERA, new species. 



Female. — Ferruginous; length 11 mm. Head ferruginous; front 

 and vertex clothed with thick, fiery-red pubescence, and sparse, erect, 

 pale hairs; genae clothed with sparse, semierect, silvery pubescence; 

 front and vertex rugoso-punctate, the genae with close, strong, 

 confluent punctures; mandibles tridentate; antennae separated at 

 the base by a distance equal to half the length of the scape ; length of 

 pedicellum equal to half the length of the first segment of flagellum ; 

 eyes large, slightly ovate, the distance between the hind margins of 

 the eyes and the postero-lateral angles slightly greater than the 

 longitudinal diameter of the eyes; longitudinal carina of genae 

 strong and sharp; relative widths of head and thorax 1-1. 



Thorax dark ferruginous; about as long as wide; dorsum of 

 thorax rugoso-punctate, coarsely so on the posterior face of pro- 

 podeum; dorsum of thorax clothed with appressed, fiery-red 

 pubescence and sparse, erect pubescence of the same color; posterior 

 face of propodeum with long, sparse, black hairs; humeri rounded; 

 cephalic margin of propleura with a sharp carina; propleura 

 punctate; mesepisternum finely rugose and punctate; mesepimeron 

 with large, confluent punctures; metapleura smooth and shining; 

 sides of propodeum smooth and shining with a few sparse punctures 

 medially and rugoso-punctate on the caudal margin. 



