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first recurrent nervure received one-fourth the length of the second submarginal 

 beyond the first transverse cubitus, the second recurrent nervure received a little, 

 more than one-fourth before the second transverse cubitus. Petiole distinctly 

 trisulcate, median sulcus deep, hardly broader at apex than at base, curved, with 

 a few fine hairs, abdomen slender, smooth, polished, minutely pubescent, almost 

 bare, pygidial area not pointed, with a few sparse, ill-formed punctures. 



Black. Teguke, tarsi and claws more or less fuscous, calcarise more or less 

 whitish. 



Type, Coll. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila. Type locality, Beulah, 

 N. M., Aug. 17, 1901 (H. Skinner). Belongs to group niger, it is 

 related to M. cylindricus Fox. Described from one 9 . 



Mimesa basirufus Pack. 



One 9, July 27 (T. D. A. Cockerell). One $, Aug. 8, 1900 

 (T. D. A. and W. P. Cockerell). 



Mimesa punclHtus Fox. 



Psen punctatus Fox, 9 > Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxv, 9, 1898. 



One I specimen, Aug. 8, 1900 (T. D. A. and W. P. Cockerell). 

 This sex was heretofore unknown. Has the same appearance in 

 general as the female. More slender, head above antennae with fine 

 brownish hairs, joints two to eight inclusive of flagellum with a weak 

 point beneath, enclosure of metathorax, duller, the strise stronger. 

 Length 10.5 mm. 



BEMBECID^. 

 Bembex spi noise Lep. 



Two 9 9 . 



Bembex rubilipemiis Cress. 

 Two S % . 



LARRID^E. 

 Tachysphex dubius Fox. 

 One % . 



PHILANTHID^E. 



I nthophiliis albi Irons Cress. 



Philnnthus albifrons Cress., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., v, 101, % 9 • 

 Philanthiis henricus Dunn., Can. Ent. Lond., Ont., xxx, 153, 9. 



One <?, Aug. 16, 1900 (T. D. A. and W. P. Cockerell). The 

 specimen was at first identified as 2 of henricus, but upon com- 

 parison with types of A. albifrons, no specific difference could be 

 found. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. JANUARY, 1903. 



