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tured, mandibles white at base, the tips more or less, and apex of scape beneath, 

 ferruginous; thorax closely, deeply and rather coarsely punctured; posterior 

 margin of prothorax continued around the tubercles, a band at base of scutellura, 

 lateral angles of metathorax and a spot beneath tegulse immediately above and 

 in front of a small but prominent tubercle, bright golden ; mesothorax with a well 

 impressed central longitudinal line not extending beyond the disk; scutellum 

 rugose; lateral spine of metathorax long and subacute, tipped with pale yellow; 

 tegulse and legs ferruginous, clothed with pale sericeous pile, coxae and trochanters 

 black; wings smoky, darker in marginal cell and at extreme tip, in the posterior 

 pair the anal and discoidal cells are separated by a prolonged longitudinal nervure ; 

 abdomen pale golden sericeous, not densely punctured, a broad band of dense 

 golden pile near base of first segment above, a transverse ovate spot on each side 

 at apex of first segment above, a short narrow line on each side at apex of second 

 and third segments and narrow apical margin of all the segments except the last, 

 pale yellow, sometimes dull yellow. Length ..35 - .45 inch. 



%■ — Very much like the 9 J sides of face and clypeus bright silvery; the 

 coxae, trochanters and femora except tips sometimes blackish; the fourth and 

 sometimes the sixth abdominal segments above have a lateral apical pale yel- 

 low spot; apical segment armed with four teeth, the lateral ones very short. 

 Length .35— .40 inch. 



Hab. — Texas, (Belfrage) ; Montana, (Morrison). Ten specimens. 

 This is very closely allied to annatus, which, however, is more densely 

 pubescent, and the % abdomen armed at tip with only two teeth. 



Faranysson fuscipes n. sp.— J. — Black, opaque, clothed with a very 

 short, more or less dense, pale ochraceous pubescence, coarsely and confluently 

 punctured; face with a prominent acute longitudinal ridge just above insertion of 

 antennse ; labrum, mandibles and palpi ferruginous ; posterior margin of prothorax, 

 tubercles, short longitudinal line on middle of mesothorax, base of scutellum, 

 postscutellum and metathorax above, covered with a dense golden ochraceous pile; 

 mesopleura coarsely rugose, with a short acute tooth beneath tegulse; metathorax 

 coarsely reticulated, the basal middle with a few coarse longitudinal rugse, the 

 strongly divergent prominent lateral spine acute and tipped with yellowish ; tegulse 

 dull ferruginous; wings hyaline, dusky at extreme tips, in the posterior pair the 

 anal and discoidal cells are separated by a prolonged longitudinal nervure ; legs 

 black or fuscous, extreme tips of femora, and the four anterior tibiae in front, more 

 or less dull ferruginous; abdomen deeply punctured, more closely so on apical 

 segments and more coarsely on base and sides of first segment; a yellow band, 

 narrowed and more or less interrupted in middle, on apex of segments 1 — 5 above, 

 the extreme posterior margin of the segments narrowly golden ; venter and thorax 

 beneath silvery sericeous. Length .45 inch. 



% . — Much like the 9 > with the abdomen more strongly punctured ; face and 

 clypeus bright silvery, the upper anterior orbits sometimes golden ; sixth segment 

 of abdomen above generally with a small pale spot on each side; apical segment 

 carinate laterally and armed at tip with four teeth, the middle ones the longest. 

 Length .40 inch. 



Hab. — Washington Territory, Oregon, (Morrison). Four specimens. 

 This species is more coarsely punctured than the others, and easily 

 distinguished from the preceding by the black legs. 



