TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 279 



finely punctured except on apical margins which are smooth, subdepressed ; 

 basal half and sides of first segment with subereot pale ochraceous pubescence, 

 base of second segment and apical margins of second, third and fouth seg- 

 ments with a narrow band of short, dense, appressed, white pubescence, more 

 dense at the extreme apical edge of the segments, two apical segments fringed 

 with pale pubescence, disk of apical segment as in Belfragei ; venter with 

 brown pubescence, whitish at extreme sides. Length .45 inch. 



One specimen. (Ooll. G. W. Belfrage.) This seems intermediate 

 between Belfragei and honeata and may be the 9 of ^.he latter. The 

 abdomen has four whitish bands, there being two on second segment. 



9IeIisso(les Iioncsla, n. sp. 



% .■ — Black, shining; head with long pale pubescence, dense and whitish 

 on cheeks, and more or less yellowish on vertex and occiput; clypeus promi- 

 nent, punctured, shining, pale yellow, apical margin black; labrum densely 

 pi^bescent; mandibles tinged with yellowish at tips; antenuje long, reaching 

 beyond apex of first abdominal segment, entirely black; thorax clothed with 

 a dense, rather long pubescence, yellowish fulvous above, and pale on meta- 

 thorax and pleura, on disk of mesothorax and on scutellum it is thin; tegulse 

 fuscous; wings hyaline, dusky at apex; legs with whitish pubescence, yel- 

 lowish on tarsi within; abdomen ovate, convex, shining, finely punctured, api- 

 cal margins of the segments smooth and polished, first segment clothed with 

 rather long cinereous or pale ochraceous pubescence, the basal half of second 

 segment with very short cinereous pubescence, the second and four following 

 segments each with a rather broad subapical band of short, dense, appressed, 

 whitish pubescence, sides of apical segments unarmed and with long scattered 

 pale hairs. Length .45 — .52 inch. 



Five specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Melissodes pygmtea, n. sp. 



9 . — Small, black, shining, sparsely and finely punctured ; face and cheeks 

 with dense whitish pubescence, thinly scattered over clypeus; occiput with 

 long dense ochraceous pubescence; antennae brown toward tips, the flagelluin 

 brown-testaceous beneath; thorax clothed with a rather dense, short, ochrace- 

 ous pubescence, not entirely hiding the shining surface of mesothorax and 

 scutellum, on postscutellum the pubescence is long and dense, on metathorax 

 and pleura it is pale; tegulss pale fuscous; wings short, hyaline, nervures and 

 stigma honey-yellow; legs clothed with pale ochraceous pubescence, that on 

 posterior tibiae and base of tarsi long, dense and more or less tinged with 

 brown, tips of tarsi honey-yellow; abdomen oblong-ovate, first and second 

 segments smooth and polished, the former clothed at base and sides with a 

 suberect pubescence, remaining segments at base with a very short dense 

 brown sericeous pubescence and at apex with a broad band of very short dense 

 appressed whitish pubescence, becoming long on lateral margins. Length .30 

 inch. 



Two specimens. (Belfrage.) This is the smallest species of this 

 genus known to me. 



