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punctures anteriorly, finely punctured posteriorly; mesopleura with 

 large, scattered, indistinct punctures interspersed with fine punctures 

 anteriorly, with large contiguous, somewhat confluent punctures 

 posteriorly; nietapleura glabrous, with scattered, indistinct very fine 

 punctures, and a few large punctures ventraliy; sides of propodeuni 

 glabrous, impunctate anteriorly, becoming shallowly, foveately punc- 

 tate posteriorly ; posterior face and dorsum of propodeuni shallowly, 

 foveately reticulate. 



Abdomen black, the first two segments ferruginous, the second ter- 

 gite with a large yellow area covering the disk; abdomen clothed 

 with sparse, long, erect, black pubescence, except the apical two or 

 three tergites clothed with grayish pubescence ; first segment strongly 

 nodose ; first tergite coarsely, confluently punctate ; second tergite 

 with large, distinct contiguous punctures at the base, sides and apex, 

 but with distinct separated punctures on the disk; tergites 3-6 

 densely punctate; pygidial area glabrous, indistinctly longitudinally 

 rugose, and with a thin, indistinct apical fringe of short, erect hairs; 

 carina of first sternite prominent, but not dentate, the sternite 

 coarsely, confluently punctate; second sternite Avith large, distinct, 

 close punctures, without a median pit filled with hairs; apical mar- 

 gins of sternites 3-6 with scattered, small punctures; ultimate ster- 

 nite punctate and pubescent. 



Legs dark mahogany red, almost black, clothed with long, sparse, 

 black pubescence; calcaria dark. 



Wings dark fuliginous; cell 2nd R^ + Ro broadly truncate at the 

 apex; cell R^ almost obsolete; vein M.-^^^ received by cell Rg at one- 

 third the distance from the base to the apex; veins r-m and Rg 

 separated on vein r. 



Holofi/pe. — Male, Lee County, Tex., June 8, 1906, in collection of 

 University of Kansas. 



DistHhution. — Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. 



Pan^atypes. — Male, Lee County, Texas, May 19, 1906; male, Lee 

 County, Texas. May 19; male, Lee County, Texas. May 24, 1906; male, 

 Lee County, Texas. May; male, Lee County, Texas, August; male, 

 Fedor, Texas; 2 males, Richmond, Texas, May 29, 1918 (J. C. Brad- 

 ley) ; male, Richmond, Fort Bend County, June 22, 1917; male. Vic- 

 toria, Texas. May 25, 1908 (J. D. Mitchell) ; male, Victoria, Texas, 

 August 3, 1916 (J. D. Mitchell) ; male, New Braunfels, Texas, May 

 23-26, 1918 (J. C. Bradley) ; male, Durant, Oklahoma, June 2, 1905 

 (F. C. Bishopp) ; male, Las Cruces, New Mexico (Townsend), in col- 

 lections of University of Kansas, United States National Museum, j 

 University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and the author. 



Very similar in appearance to caneUa and has been confused with 

 that species in collections. Differs from caneJla in lacking the median 



