68 :e. t. cresson. 



clypeatus except that the second submarginal cell is not so much narrowed 

 towards the marginal; legs piceous, thinly clothed with pale pubescence, tarsi 

 pale brownish; abdomen oblong, smooth and shining, with short scattering jJale 

 pubescence, apex tufted with long pale pubescence. Length .25 inch. 

 Hah. — California, (H. Edwards). One specimen. 



Calliopsis lepidus. — 9 .—Black, thickly clothed with pale pubescence, 

 slightly mixed with black on vertex and thorax above; spot on sides of face, a 

 dot between ancennse and a short longitudinal mark on disk of clypeus, white; 

 flagellum pale testaceous beneath ; mesothorax subopaque, subseneous, minutely 

 and closely punctured, clothed with short sparse pubescence; on postscutellum 

 and pleura the pubescence is long and thick; tegulse black, polished; wings 

 hyaline, dusky on apical margin, second submarginal cell very much narrowed 

 towards marginal, receiving the first recurrent nervure about one-fifth from the 

 base, and the second recurrent same distance from the tip; legs rather thickly 

 clothed with pale pubescence, which on the broad basal joint of tarsi beneath 

 is short dense and fulvous, this joint on the posterior pair has a tuft of long 

 pubescence at the tip above, having the appearance of a spur; abdomen ovate, 

 Bubconvex, shining, sericeous, the segments depressed on apical margin and 

 having a narrow fringe of white pubescence widely interrupted on first segment; 

 Bides and apex fringed with longer pale pubescence. Length ..30 inch. 



Hdh. — Georgia, (Morrison). One specimen. A very distinct species, 

 Laving much the appearance of an Hulktns. 



Calliopsis abdominalis.— 9 .— Black, opaque, finely and densely 

 punctured, head and thorax clothed with a very short sparse pale subsericeous 

 pile; a large transverse spot on middle of face, sinuate beneath, base of mandi- 

 bles, anterior half of tegulse, and tubercles, yellow; flagellum beneath and pos- 

 terior half of tegulse testaceous; posterior margin of prothorax pale sericeous; 

 scutellum and postscutellum unusually large and transverse, fulvous; meta- 

 thorax short and broadly rounded, finely sculptured, more or less stained with 

 fulvous; wings uniformly pale fuscous, stigma dull fulvous: legs subrobust, four 

 anterior knees, their tibise except tips and base of their tarsi yellowish, posterior 

 tibise rather thickly pubescent, the basal joint of their tarsi with a long spur 

 of pubescence at apex; abdomen oblong-ovate, subdepressed, fulvous, apical 

 margin of the segments depressed and golden yellow in certain lights; a round 

 black spot on each extreme side of second segment, and a black band on base 

 of third to fifth segmenis, reduced in one specimen to a small lateral spot, anal 

 fimbria pale yellow; venter varied with black and fulvous. Length .33 inch. 



%. — Much narrower than 9 and more pubescent; the face entirely, labrum, 

 mandibles except tips, scape beneath, tegulte anteriorly, tubercles and the legs 

 yellow; scutellum obscure fulvous-; abdomen entirely fulvous except black spot 

 on each side of second segment and a blackish stain on each side of apical seg- 

 ment. Length .28 inch. 



Hab. — Texas, (Heiligbrodt). Four specimens. Easily recognized 

 by the fulvous abdomen. 



Perdita hyalina.— 'J, .—Form elongate; head and thoi-ax bluish green, 

 rather thickly clothed with an erect white pubescence; head not wider than 

 thorax, clypeus slightly protuberant; mandibles long, slender, simple, reddish 

 at tips; antennae pale testaceous beneath; prothorax unusually narrow above. 



