INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 103 



Described from seven specimens collected in the Tuolumne 

 Meadows, California, by Miss Frances Long. 



Type, Cat. No. 20616, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Much smaller than any other American species, but closely 

 resembles C. campanularum of Europe, differing in the more 

 bulging center of face, much shorter and finer rugae on pro- 

 podeum, punctures of rest of propodeum much finer and closer, 

 etc. 



Hoplitina hesperia, new species. 



female. — Length 6.5 mm. Black, clothed with abundant 

 white pubescence, abdominal tergites 1-3 red ; head closely and 

 rather coarsely punctured, pubescence densest on sides of face ; 

 clypeus projecting, anterior margin gently curved, more 

 sparsely and coarsely punctured; facial quadrangle somewhat 

 longer than broad; inner orbits subparallel ; second joint of 

 labial palpi twice as long as first; first joint of maxillary palpi 

 short, stout, second about three-fifths as long as third, which is 

 as long as 4 and 5 combined ; thorax with punctures about as 

 on head ; propodeum shiny, smooth, finely rugulose at base ; 

 tegulse reddish ; wings dusky ; first recurrent as far from base 

 of second submarginal as second recurrent is from apex ; legs 

 black, pubescence slightly tinged with yellowish ; tibial spurs 

 white, first abdominal segment with punctures well separated, 

 segments 2-3 with punctures successively closer, 4-6 with 

 punctures crowded; segments 1-5 with apical bands of ap- 

 pressed densely plumose white hair, those on 1-3 interrupted 

 medially (abraded) ; venter black, closely punctured, first seg- 

 ment red except a black blotch medially, following segments 

 with obscurely reddish apical margins and 2 and 3 with a red 

 blotch at each side ; ventral scopa long, thin, whitish. 



Type locality, Redlands, California. 



Type, Cat. No. 20615, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Described from one specimen collected in 1913 by Mr. F. R. 

 Cole. 



Closely related to the genotype which is described from the 

 opposite sex but smaller and with the relative lengths of the 

 joints of the palpi different. 



