TEXAN HVMENOPTERA. 227 



C'rabro texauus, n. sp. 



9 • — Black ; head very large, quadrate, densely punctured, clypeus and 

 cheeks bright silvery, anterior orbits pale golden; mandibles except tips and 

 scape lemon-yellow ; thorax densely and coarsely punctured, upper posterior 

 margin of prothorax, tubercles, spot behind, scutellum and postscutellum 

 lemon-yellow; metathorax with a central longitudinal carina; tegulse ferru- 

 ginous ; wings pale fuscous, the costa beyond sti-gma fuliginous; tips of femora, 

 all the tibiae and tarsi yellow, the latter tinged with ferruginous ; abdomen 

 densely punctured, a broad band near base of second segment, a narrow one on 

 middle of fourth and a broad one on middle of fifth, lemon-yellow, terminal 

 segment with two carina converging at tip which is acute; venter immacu- 

 late. Length .30 inch. 



Three specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Passaloecn!^ anuiilatns. 



Peviphredon annulatus, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 379. 

 One specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Miiiiesa tibialis, n. sp. 



%, 9- — Black, shining, clothed with a short silvery-white pubescence; face 

 densely silvery; middle of mandibles and flagellum beneath and at tips pale 

 ferruginous; thorax rather sparsely punctured; tubercles yellowish; meta- 

 thorax reticulated, coarsely so at base; tegulse testaceous; wings hj'aline, 

 iridescent; knees, four anterior tibise, posterior pair at base and all the tarsi 

 2)ale yellowish or whitish, apex of posterior tibise of 9 sometimes ferruginous: 

 abdomen smooth, shining, subiridescent, slender in % , apex of segments obso- 

 letely dull testaceous, petiole not as long as the dilated portion of the segment. 

 Length .27 inch. 



Four specimens. (Belfrage.) 



]^Iiinesa pauper. 



Miviesa pauper, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, vi., p. 409. 

 One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Philauthns vcntilabriK. 



Philanthus ventilabris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 208. 

 Seven % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Philanthii!^ piinetatiiN. 



Philanthus punctatus, Say, Long's 2d Exped. ii. p. ."42. 

 Two S 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Eucerceri!^ zouatiis. 



Philanthus zoned us, Say, West. Quar. Eep, ii., p. 79; Am. Ent. j)!. 49. 

 One specimen. (Belfrage.) 



C'ereeris fuiiiipeniii<«. 



Cerceris fmnipeiuns. Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 3S1. 

 Two 9 specimens. (Boll.) 



Cerceris bieornuta. 



Cerceris bicornuta, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anirn. p. 44.T. 

 Three 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



