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distinct cross wrinkles than in the known males of the other Nearctic 

 species of the genus; mesopleuron with small adjacent punctures, not 

 shining, its pubsecence unusually long. 



Head and body blackish with a weak iridescence of mixed green 

 and blue; clypeus except medially, a broad mark next the eye from 

 the clypeus tapering to a point halfway up the frons, most of mandible 

 and a large median spot on seventh tergite, white; under side of 

 antenna, palpi, tegula, and legs fulvous; middle and hind tarsi 

 brownish apically; wings hyaline; abdomen with a fulvous tinge 

 laterally and ventrally. 



Female: Forewing about 11.0 mm. long; clothing hairs of frons 

 dense, long and pale yellow, arising from subconfiuent punctures on a 

 mat background; apical margin of clypeus broadly angled to a rounded 

 median point; second flagellar segment about 7.3 as long as wide; 

 groove of pronotum with short, fine, oblique wrinkles; punctures on 

 mesopleuron very dense, somewhat confluent in rows (not confluent 

 and a little less dense in the other Nearctic species); pygidial area 

 polished, with a few scattered, weak punctures that are separated 

 by about 4.0 their diameter. 



Blackish with an unusually dense and long silvery pubescence. 

 Apical margin of clypeus and inner orbits narrowlj' fulvous; mouth 

 parts, flagellum, underside of scape, tegula, and legs fulvous, the 

 flagellum basally brownish; apex of mandible dark ferruginous; 

 apical segment of tarsi dark brown; wings hyaline. 



Specimens: 2cf , 19 (lectotype & and paratypes cf9), Palmerlee, 

 Ariz., June (Cambridge). 



2. Auplopus inermis, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Forev/ing 10.0 mm, long; clothing hairs of frons short, 

 dense, and pale, arising from very fine adjacent punctures on a mat 



Figure 79. — Locality for Juplopus inermis. 



