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Abdomen ferruginous; tirst segment completely sessile with the 

 second; first tergite with close, confluent punctures at the apex; 

 first tergite with sparse, long, erect, black hairs, and a band of 

 recumbent, bristle-like hairs at the apex; second tergite with close, 

 confluent punctures ; second tergite silvery pubescent narrowly at the 

 sides, the remainder of the tergite with thick, appressed, fiery-red 

 pubescence, and sparse, erect hairs of the same color, the apex of 

 the tergite with a very narrow band of silvery pubescence interrupted 

 medially by a few black hairs; tergites 3-5 closely punctate; tergite 

 3 with median third black pubescent, and lateral thirds silvery 

 pubescent; tergite 4 silvery pubescent with a narrow area of black 

 pubescence medially; tergite 5 silvery pubescent; tergite 6 with cop- 

 per-colored pubescence; pygidial area distinct, finely rugose; second 

 sternite with large elongate, separated punctures, sparsely silvery 

 pubescent at the apex. 



Leg dark ferruginous, clothed with long sparse silvery pubescence ; 

 calcaria pale. 



Ilolotype. — Female, July 12, Palmerlee, Arizona (H. A. Kaeber), 

 in collection of American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



This species is very similar to harpolyce Fox but may be dis- 

 tinguished by the fact that the head is not wider than the thorax, 

 and by the vestiture of the abdominal tergites. 



21. PSEUDOMETHOCA AUREOVESTITA J. C. Bradley, new species. 



Plate 1, fig. 4. 



Female. — Ground color claret brown, largely clothed with golden 

 pubescence; front, vertex, dorsum and second dorsal segment ex- 

 cept at sides clothed with long, matted, and moderately dense ap- 

 pressed golden (light cadmium) hairs; sides and back of head, scape, 

 pleural and sternal parts, legs and ventral segments with rather 

 long white hairs, giving them a griseous appearance, little or no 

 appressed pubescence on these parts; caudal surface of propodeum 

 and the petiole above with numerous erect bay hairs; apex of the 

 third to fifth dorsal segments with short appressed white, in the 

 middle brown and erect short and sparse brown pubescence. Length 

 9.5 mm. 



Head seen from above transversely quadrate, 0.6 as long as broad ; 

 the temples behind the eyes approximately equal to the long diam- 

 eter of the latter (0.7 mm.) ; the temples bordered posteriorly by a 

 very strong carina, carried down onto the gulae, but not spined: 

 front and vertex scabrous, the genae closely punctate; a fine carina 

 between eyes and antennae; bases of the latter separated by about 

 the length of the pedicel; face very short, with carinae widely diverg- 

 ing toward the bases of the mandibles, setting off the depressed, 



