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PROTOXAEA IJIPUNCTATA, new species. 



Female. — Length, 20 mm. Almost exactly like P. texana Friese, 

 with bright rufofulvous hair on thorax above, and abdomen largely 

 green, but differing thus; wings, although smoky, considerably paler; 

 occiput, cheeks, sides of face, and region of ocelli with light fulvous 

 hair; anterior femora with long pale hair; hair of middle of meta- 

 thorax and middle of extreme base of abdomen creamy-white, con- 

 trasting with the red hair all around ; dorsal surface of abdomen im- 

 punctate, except at sides, where it is sparsely punctured. 



This cannot be the female of Oxaea tristis Gribodo; in tristis the 

 second recurrent nervure joins the third submarginal cell very little 

 beyond the middle, in P. impunctata near the beginning of the last 

 third. 



Mexico, D. F. (J. R. Inda, No. 55). 



Type.— Cd^t. No. 20709, U.S.N.M. 



PTILOGLOSSA MEXICANA Creason. 



Male. — Taboga Island, Panama, June 12, 1911 (A. Busck). Ee- 

 sembles P. eximia Smith, but mesopleura with black hair. The 

 labrum and clypeus are honey color ; scape honey-color in front ; an- 

 terior legs with long clear red hair ; hair at end of abdomen grayish- 

 black. Cresson described only the female, which I have from Guate- 

 mala. I believe the Panama insect to be its male, although it is 

 evidently not the insect described by Friese as male mexicana. The 

 matter will have to remain a little uncertain until we have both sexes 

 from Panama. 



PTILOGLOSSA CKAWFORDI, new species. 



Male. — Length about 19 mm. Robust, black, quite without any 

 metallic tint; head and thorax densely covered with black hair; 

 disk of clypeus with long appressed white hair ; a transverse band of 

 dull white hair above the clypeus, extending downward at sides half- 

 way to mandibles; hair of cheeks and under side of body greyish 

 or dilute black; clypeus prominent, quadrate, with flattened disk; 

 eyes converging above; antennae black, flagellum pruinose beneath; 

 third antennal joint much longer than next three together; tegulae 

 black; wings strongly fuliginous, shining purple; first recurrent 

 nervure practically meeting first transverso-cubital, or joining first 

 submarginal cell some distance from its end; legs black, with black 

 hair, small joints of tarsi reddish; abdomen with white hair at ex- 

 treme base, and ferruginous hair at apex, but otherwise with rather 

 thin black hair; venter with long pale hair, white basally, ferrugi- 

 nous apically, and in the middle suffusedly blackish. 



Ujurass de Terraba, Costa Rica, September 1, 1907, 3 males (M. A. 

 Carriker). 

 • Type.—Cixt. No. 20710, U.S.N.M. 



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