12G E. T. CRESSON. 



white except on apical segment and at tip of preceding segment where It is 

 black. Length .55 — .60 inch. 



JIah. — North Carolina, Greorgia, (Morrison). Eight specimens. 

 This is closely allied to texajia, but less robust, the mesothorax 

 less closely punctured and the pubescence on the penultimate ven- 

 tral segment is almost entirely white, having only a few black 

 hairs at tip. 



Megaehile pinguis. — 9- — Form unusually broad, short and robust; 

 black, rather shining; head with the sides of face and cheeks clothed with 

 pale pubescence, elsewhere it is black; clypeus densely punctured; thorax 

 closely punctured, almost nude above, the pubescence being short sparing and 

 black, behind and beneath it is dense and pale; scutellum with a few long 

 black hairs; a small patch of pale hairs behind tegulse; wings fuliginous on 

 apical n>argin; legs with pale pubescence, on tarsi it is short and black except 

 a pale fringe beneath on two anterior pairs; basal joint of the tarsi, especially 

 the posterior pair, broad; abdomen short, broad, shining, clothed with short 

 black pubescence, except on basal segment where it is long and pale; apical 

 margin of segments 2 — 5 with a very narrow apical fringe of white pubes- 

 cence; apical segment with a dense pale pile ; ventral scopa whitish, the apical 

 segment clothed with black hairs. Length .48 inch. 

 Jlah. — Georgia, (Morrison). One specimen. 



Megacliile iiieiidica. — 9 • — Form broad, robust, black; head and thorax 

 finely and very densely punctured; vertex shining; face, sides of clypeus, 

 cheeks, thorax behind, at sides and beneath, and basal segment of abdomen 

 densely clothed with whitish pubescence, which on vertex, mesothorax and 

 scutellum is black; clypeus strongly not closely punctured; thorax opaque; 

 wings dusky on apical margin; legs with pale pubescence, that on tarsi be- 

 neath yellow; abdomen short, broad, finely punctured, shining ; clothed with 

 short black pubescence, long on extreme sides of the apical segments, a narrow 

 fringe of white pubescence on apical margin of segments 2 — 5 more or lesa 

 interrupted in the middle of 2—4 and generally entire on five; apical segment 

 opaque, very densely punctured and brownish ; ventral scopa yellow, the pubes- 

 cence on apical segment black. Length .45 — .50 inch. 



Hah.— Can., N. Y., Mass., Pa., Del., N. C, Ga., Fla., 111. Twenty- 

 four specimens. 



Megacliile relativa.— 9- — Form rather narrow, shining, black; head 

 and thorax strongly not densely punctured; face, cheeks, thorax behind, at 

 sides and beneath and basal segment of abdomen clothed with a long dense 

 pale pubescence, long and black on vertex, mesothorax and scutellum; wings 

 dusky on apical margin; legs slender, clothed with pale pubescence, that on 

 tarsi yellow; abdomen shining, finely punctured, clothed with short black 

 pubescence, segments 2—5 with a narrow apical fringe of yellowish pubes- 

 cence, interrupted medially on two and three; apical segment yellowish- 

 sericeous at tip, densely sculptured; ventral scopa dense and entirely yellow. 

 Length .40 — .45 inch. 



Hab.—Qan., N. Y., N. C, 111., Col. Twenty specimens. 



