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beneath to segments 3 and 4 united; antennal scrobes not carinate 

 above; front, vertex and genae with coarse, deep, confluent punc- 

 tures ; relative widths of head and thorax, 4.75-5. 



Thorax dark ferruginous, clothed throughout with sparse, appres- 

 sed, silvery pubescence, and scattered, erect, dark hairs, the silvery 

 pubescence somewhat more dense on the propodeum, at the posterior 

 margin of the propleura, the anterior half of the mesopleura, and the 

 ventral half of the metapleura ; dorsum of thorax, and posterior face 

 of propodeum deeply, contiguously, f o veately punctate ; scutellar' scale 

 present, a very small area of black pubescence adjacent to the latter; 

 propleura coarsely punctate throughout ; anterior half of mesopleura 

 finely punctate, the posterior half coarsely, confluently punctate; 

 metapleaura coarsely punctate near the ventral margin, elsewhere 

 finely punctate; sides of propodeum with large, somewhat shallow, 

 contiguous, foveate punctures. 



Abdomen ferruginous ; first tergite short and nodose, coarsely punc- 

 tate, especially so at the apical and lateral margins, clothed with 

 scattered, erect, pale hairs, the apical margin with a broad band of 

 dense, appressed, silvery pubescence ; second tergite for the most part 

 with large, separated, foveate punctures, clothed with scattered, erect, 

 dark and pale hairs, except a large submedian spot (anterior to me- 

 dian) with small, contiguous punctures, and sparse, appressed, black 

 pubescence, the spot margined with silvery pubescence ; apical fringe 

 of second tergite interrupted medially with a spot of black pubes- 

 cence; tergites 3-5 with indistinct, moderate punctures, all sparsely 

 clothed with appressed, silvery pubescence, and scattered, long, dark, 

 erect hairs, the third tergite with a faint spot of black pubescence 

 medially; margins of pygidial segment clothed with dark hairs; 

 pygidium longitudinally striate; carina of first sternite not dentate, 

 the latter with scattered, erect, pale hairs; second sternite with large, 

 close, distinct punctures, the punctures confluent along the apical mar- 

 gin, clothed with scattered, erect, pale hairs, and a thin apical fringe 

 of silvery pubescence; sternites 3-5 closely, moderately punctate near 

 the apical margins and each with a thin apical fringe of silvery pu- 

 bescence; ultimate sternite punctate and with erect, dark hairs. 



Legs ferruginous, sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence; cal- 

 caria ferruginous like the legs ; tibial spines dark. 



Holotype. — Female, Valentine, Presidio County, Tex., July 8, 1917 

 (J. Bequaert), in collection of University of Minnesota. 



Paratype. — Female, Valentine, Presidio County, Tex., July 8, 1917 

 (J. Bequaert), in collection of J. Bequaert. 



Related and very similar in appearance to honita. It differs from 

 the latter by the darker head and thorax, the absence of any definite 

 area of black pubescence on the dorsum of the thorax, less coarse 



