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perfectly with this. There is also in the collection a specimen 

 from Louisiana and one from Agri. Coll., Miss., collected May 

 24, 1901, on Brigeron annuus by W. Dwight Pierce. 



Holcopasites acanthochilus, new species. 



Female. Length 6.5 mm. Head and thorax black with 

 appressed white pubescence, face closely rather coarsely punc- 

 tured, punctures of clypeus finer, on each side of face above 

 clypeus a smooth shiny area with a few large punctures ; 

 labrum near base medially with a short spine-like projection; 

 mandibles red, lighter medially; antenns reddish, brownish 

 above, most of scape dark brown ; mesonotum closely punc- 

 tured, the punctures somewhat coarser than on face ; scutellum 

 slightly bilobed, almost rugoso-punctate ; tubercles and tegulss 

 reddish, coxse and basal half of femora dark, tibiae reddish, 

 apical half of the mid and hind tibije and all of tarsi brown; 

 tibial spurs whitish ; first recurrent received by the second 

 cubital very near base ; abdomen red, truncation of first seg- 

 ment poorly defined, covered with appressed white pubescence ; 

 first four segments with a pair of basal spots of appressed 

 white pubescence and a similar spot on lateral apical margins ; 

 last ventral segment apically slightly emarginate. 



Type locality : Clarendon, Texas. 



Type, Cat. No. 19968, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



One specimen from the type locality with the record of June 

 11, 1910, on Monarda citriodora, F. C. Bishopp, collector; also 

 one female from Cypress Mills, Texas. 



Holcopasites stevensi, new species. 



Neopasites ill'.noiensis auct. not Robertson. 



Female. Length about 6 mm. Black, abdomen red; very 

 similar to illinoicnsis but larger, face above, mesonotum and 

 mesopleurge coarsely rugoso-punctate; joint 3 of antennae not 

 as long as 4-t-5 ; last ventral segment very slightly emarginate. 



Male. Length about 6 mm. Similar to the female except 

 in secondary sexual characters. 



Type locality: Bismarck, North Dakota. 



Type female, allotype male and one male paratype from the 

 type locality with the record August 6, 1913, on Grindelia 



