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occurs in my specimen, but also bits of the pubescence still re- 
maining in protected parts of the insect’s anatomy. 
In view of this fact, ]\Ir. Blake’s description is misleading and 
the following partial description will correct it. 
Head everywhere very minutely and closely punctulate, the punctures 
having very short, white, decumbent pubescence, and except on the front, also 
with scattered, erect, white hairs born in larger punctures. Thorax, except 
the pleura and posterior face of the proprodeum with a similar arrangement of 
pubescence; the pleura practically bare, slightly and irregularly aciculate; 
the propodeum with scattered, erect white hairs, but without the decumbent 
sericeous pubescence. The pubescence of the abdomen is somewhat com- 
phcated; dorsally, the cephalic slope of the basal segment has erect white 
hairs, the apex of each segment with a band of short erect black or dark 
hairs, interrupted medially on the second and fifth segments; two lateral 
yellow spots near the base of the second segment, a median one at the 
apex of the same, and a large median spot on the fifth segment are covered 
with short white hairs; each segment, especially apically, except the last,, 
also bears long and scattered, dark, reddish hairs, some paler; ventrally the 
second segment bears sparse, short, white pubescence and longer scattered 
hairs, the third, fourth and fifth segments with erect pale hairs at apex,, 
and the sixth with scatt ered darker hairs. 
California: [Type, American Entomological Society]; Felton in the Santa 
Cruz Mountains, May 20 to 25, 1907, between 300 and 500 feet elevation, 
1 $, (the author), [Cornell University]. 
Brachycistis bimaculata Fox, 9 . 
Missouri: Ripley County, (P. J. Schmitt), [Type, American Entomologi- 
cal Society]. Virginia: Falls Church, August 15, September 18, 2 9, (N. 
Banks), [X. Banks and Cornell University]. 
Unidentified species 
Brachycistis iBrachycistis) cremastogaster Melander, cf. 
1903. Brachycistis cremastogaster Melander, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 29: 
329, c?. 
Texas: [Chicago Academy of Sciences]. 
Brachycistis (Brachycistis) stictinota Viereck, 6^. 
1906. Brachycistis stictinotus V'iereck, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 32: 190, cf. 
I know of no other record of a species of this genus from as far 
east as Kansas. 
Kansas: Clark County, 1962 feet elevation, June, 1 cf, [Type, University 
of Kansas]. 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XLIII. 
