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interspersed with very fine, minute punctures; the dorsal half of 

 the metapleura glabrous, with indistinct, close, minute punctures; 

 sides of propodeum with large, confluent punctures; ventral half 

 of posterior face of propodeum with large, scattered punctures, inter- 

 spersed with close, distinct, minute punctures; dorsal half of the 

 posterior face of propodeum and dorsum of propodeum very coarsely 

 and deeply rugoso-punctate ; scutellar scale prominent. 



Abdomen black; first tergite dark mahogany red, the disk with 

 scattered, large, elongate punctures, interspersed throughout with 

 very fine, close, distinct punctures; apex of first tergite closely, 

 confluently punctate, with an apical fringe of long black hairs: 

 second tergite with a pair of small basal, and a pair of large, sub- 

 rectangular, subapical, pale yellow spots; punctures of the second 

 tergite separated, large, distinct laterally, sparse on the two basal 

 spots, close, separated, and distinct on the two subapical spots, very 

 coarse, close and confluent elsewhere; spots on second tergite with 

 sparse, golden pubescence, the lateral portions of tergite with silvery 

 pubescence, remainder with sparse, black pubescence, and the apical 

 margin with a fringe of black hairs (except lateral extremes silvery) ; 

 tergites 3-5 with close, distinct punctures, the third with sparse, 

 black pubescence and an apical fringe of black hairs (except lateral 

 extremes silvery) ; tergites 3-5 with close, distinct punctures, the 

 third with sparse, black pubescence and an apical fringe of black 

 hairs (except lateral extremes silvery), the fourth and fifth with 

 sparse silvery pubescence and apical fringes of silvery hairs; pygid- 

 ium strongly longitudinally striate, the striae slightly diverging; 

 first sternite with a median longitudinal carina, but not prominent, 

 the sternite with a few, scattered, indistinct punctures; second 

 sternite dark mahogany red, with large, well-separated, deep punc- 

 tures sparser on the disk than at the sides, with very sparse, long, 

 erect and recumbent, pale silvery hairs, and a thin apical fringe of 

 pale silvery hairs; sternites 3-5 with large, close punctures, the 

 latter closer and confluent at the apical margin, each sternite clothed 

 with sparse, silvery pubescence and an apical fringe of silvery hairs. 



Legs ferruginous, sparsely clothed with pale silvery hairs. 



Bolotype. — Female. Payne County, Okla., July 5, 1925 (W. J. 

 Brown), in collection of University of Minnesota. 



Paratypes. — Female, Payne County, Okla., July 5, 1925 (W. J. 

 Brown) ; female, Hot Springs, Ark., July 14, 1909 (H. S. Barber) ; 

 female, Riley County, Kans., August 5 (Popenoe) ; female, Colorado 

 County, Tex., May 27, 1922 (Grace O. Wiley). Paratypes in col- 

 lections of United States National Museum, University of Minnesota, 

 Kansas Agricultural College, and the author. 



