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fringes long, concave above, hyaline ; antennre very long ; scape yellowish in front, 

 pale red behind ; flagellum red at base and beneath, but passing into reddish-black 

 above, the apical joint red and curved ; thorax black, the upper border of prothorax 

 broadly, but interrupted in the middle, a spot behind tubercles, two large patches 

 (with only a linear separation) on scutellum, a short stripe on postscutellum, and an 

 elongate mark on each side of metathorax, all cream-color ; enclosure of metathorax 

 smooth in the middle and punctured at the sides ; tegula? cream-color, dark reddish 

 basally ; wings with the usual dusky apex, stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous ; coxce 

 cream-colored in front, as also are the middle and hind trochanters ; femora very bright 

 light ferruginous, the anterior and middle ones with a cream-colored patch beneath ; 

 anterior and middle tibice cream- color, more or less reddish on inner side ; hind tibiae 

 somewhat distorted, cream-color basally, otherwise red ; tarsi cream-color and reddish, 

 claw-joint of hind tarsi blackish at base ; abdomen with the first segment rather 

 broader than long, with long erect pale hairs ; segments I to 6 black, with a broad 

 light yellow band ; apical plate very broad, black with the hind edge rather broadly 

 red ; venter extremely dark reddish -brown, with four cream-colored spots on each side. 

 Habitat. — Albuquerque, N. M., June 30, between the town and 

 the university two specimens (Cockerell, 3236 and 3237). The an- 

 tennre are much longer than in C. garciajia, etc. 

 Cerceris convergens, new species. 



9 . Length about 8 mm.; black with creamy- white to very light yellow mark- 

 ings, the yellowest tint being on the broad band on second abdominal segment ; punc- 

 tures strong and dense ; pubescence very scanty. Head large, transversely oval, facial 

 quadrangle somewhat broader than long ; clypeus, a supraclypeal dot, and broad 

 lateral marks going a short distance above the antennae, cream color ; vertex dullish 

 and very densely punctured ; anterior edge of clypeus somewhat projecting, and black, 

 the lateral fringes silvery white ; mandibles with the basal half mainly cream-colored ; 

 antennae of ordinary length; scape curved, white in front; flagellum yellowish 

 beneath and blackish above ; thorax rather dull black, two transverse marks on upper 

 border of prothorax, spot behind tubules, a spot on each side of scutellum, and post- 

 scutellum, cream-color; enclosure of metathorax smooth with its marginal area trans- 

 versely (obliquely) striatulate ; tegulae cream-color with hyaline spot and margin ; 

 wings hyaline, apex and marginal cell blackened ; stigma piceous, nervures dark 

 brown ; coxae, trochanters and femora black the latter with the apices cream-color, 

 the truncation of hind femora red ; tibiae cream-color, the anterior and middle ones 

 with a black patch behind, the hind ones with the apical two fifths black ; anterior 

 and middle tarsi pale, hind tarsi blackish ; first abdominal segment broader than long, 

 bulging laterally, black with a dorsal cream-colored patch ; second to fifth segments 

 black with a light yellow band, that on second the broadest ; pygideal area dark, 

 narrow-pyriform, constricted apically ; venter black without markings. 



Habitat. — Alamogordo, N. M., May 13, 1902, one 9 (H. L. 

 Viereck). 

 Cerceris chilopsidis, new species. 



9. Length nearly 9 mm.; similar to C. convergens but larger and presenting 

 the following differences in detail : black clypeal margin much broader ; supraclypeal 



