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NOTES AND DESC'KIPTIOXS OF H VIS ElVOPTEKA 

 FROM THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. 



In the collection of the University of Kansas.* 



BY H. L. VIERECK, ACAD. NAT. SCI., PHILA., PA. 



II. 



BOREAL SPECIES. 



EUMENID^. 



Eunienes (Alpha) inarginiliiieatus n. sp. 



% . — 11 mm. Wings brownish, transparent. Otherwise it has the group char- 

 acteristics of fraternus as tahnlated in Sausure's American Wasps. 



Sculj)ture and pubescence pretty much the same as in fraternus. Thorax a 

 little longer than wide. 



Black; clypeus, labruni and tibiae entirely yellow, a somewhat funnel-shaped 

 mark on the face extending from a trifle above the insertion of the antennse, the 

 scape in front with a broad stripe, an oblong or nearly oblong mark on head 

 above immediately back of each eye, the anterior margin of the pronotum, a 

 transverse band on the postscutel, and an apical marginal band on each of the 

 abdominal segments, excepting the apical ones and the first ventral, yellow; tips 

 of mandibles and hooks of antennae brownish-ferruginous, tegulse partly testa- 

 ceous, stigma and nervures dark brown. The yellow band at apex of second 

 dorsal segment, deeply angularly emarginate, a yellow spot on each side of the 

 same segment. 



Type. — University of Kansas. 



Type locality. — Este's Park, Larimer Co., Colorado. 



One specimen, taken in July, 1892, by F. H. Snow (U. of K. 

 collection, lot 153). 



CRABRONIDJ^. 

 Crabro (Anotliyreiis^) viciiiiforniis n. sp. 



Related to vicinus. Metanotum with no strong sulcus, the bands 

 on the dorsum of the abdomen not interrupted. 



9 . — 9 mm. jffead.— Dullish, finely sculptured, seemingly impunctate in front, 

 shining, indistinctly punctured behind; anterior margin of clypeus almost 

 straight, not dentate laterally. 



Thorax. — Pronotum convex, with hardly any inequalities in its surface; meso- 

 notum sculptured pretty much the same as the posterior aspect of the head ; 

 mesopleura with sparser, smaller, distinct punctures compare with the mesono- 

 tum ; metanotum indistinctly radiately strigate, with its longitudinal median 

 sulcus broad and shallow ; the posterior face of the metathorax and its pleura 



* Continued from Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 1906. 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. DKCEMBER. 1907. 



