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Neaspilota alba Lw. 



Seven males and one female, Alamogordo, N. Mexico. 



These specimens are so well marked, I think it will not be out of 

 place to note such here. 



Generally sulphur-yellow ; dorsum of the thorax, in part, meta- 

 notum, excepting the sides, a large triangular spot on the lower part 

 of the sternopleura and a smaller spot on the hypopleura above the 

 hind coxte, black, more or less obscured by whitish pollen. The 

 black area of the thoracic dorsum is limited mostly to the anterior 

 part, and a narrow extension each side of a rectangular area which 

 includes the two pair of dorso centrals. Sometimes this black area 

 is contracted, leaving the lateral margins and the greater part of the 

 posterior half of the dorsum, yellow. The bases of the second and 

 following abdominal segments brown. The antennse, especially the 

 tips, the tip of the proboscis, the extreme bases of the wings, the 

 halteres and the legs, rufous or reddish-yellow. Stigma entirely or 

 only at its base brownish. 



Avuira insecfa Lw. 



One male, Guadalajara, Mex. 



Eiitrela spar$$a Wied. 



One male, Cloudcroft, N. Mex. 



Ensina liumilis Lw. 



One female, HighroUs, N. Mex. 



Tepliritis elathrafa Lw. 



One male, Guadalajara, Mexico. 



The antennse scarcely reaching the oral margin. The apical bris- 

 tles of scutellum minute; the lateral ones very long. The abdomi- 

 nal spots brown. The wing reticulation very distinct, even below 

 the fifth vein. 



Tepliritis fiiialis Lw. 



One male, Guadalajara, Mex. 



Head and palpi light yellow; antennse more rufous; thoracic 

 bristles brownish ; humeri and a band to base of wings yellow; scu- 

 tellum entirely yellow, the bristles brown, the lateral pair are the 

 longest on the insect, the apical pair decussating ; the abdomen more 

 shining black ; the first segment and posterior margins of all yellow; 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. MARCH. 1907. 



