pepsestae: tribe macromerini 



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background; apical margin of clypeus broadly arcuate, with a faint, 

 broad, median lobe; second flagellar segment about 4.7 as long as 

 wide; groove of pronotum with short cross wrinkles; pygidial area 

 polished, with a few scattered weak punctures which are separated 

 by about 4.0 their diameter. 



Dull blackish, the frons with a very faint bluish iridescence. Palpi 

 apically and underside of flagellum tinged with fulvous; mandible 

 rufous apically; tegula mostly and legs beyond coxae fulvous; tarsi 

 brown apically; \vings with a faint brown tinge. 



Type: 9, Helotes Creek, Tex., Feb. 20, 1925, A. H. Wright (Ithaca). 



3. Auplopus variolarum, new species 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Forewing 8.0 mm. long; clothing hairs of frons short, 

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

 background; apical margin of clypeus broadly arcuate, without a 

 median production; second flagellar segment 5.0 as long as wide; 

 groove of pronotum with short fine oblique Avrinldes; pygidial area 

 polished, with medium sized punctures that are separated by about 

 1.7 their diameter. 



Figure 80. — Locality for Auplopus variolarum. 



Black without any iridescence. Palpi brownish, paler apically; 

 flagellum with a fulvous tinge apically beneath; apex of mandible 

 ferruginous; tegula reddish brown; legs bej^ond trochanters rufous, 

 the front tarsus somewhat infuscate, the middle tarsus brown, the 

 hind tarsus blackish, tibial spurs dark brown, and the hind tibia 

 infuscate apically above; wings hyaline. 



Type: 9, The Basin, Chisos Mts., 5,400 ft.. Big Bend National 

 Park, Tex., July 8 to 14, 1948, H. E. Evans (Washington, USNM 

 61797). 



