110 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



black with some white intermixed, more white below ; wings smaller 

 and not reddish ; stigma darker ; hair of anterior and mid dlelegs 

 darker, that on inner side of basal joint of hind tarsus brown-black ; 

 abdomen rather longer, with less light hair^ median bands on seg- 

 ments 2 and 3 somewhat oblique, that on 3 much narrower, and al- 

 most ftiiling in the middle, while 4 has the white bands only distinct 

 laterally ; hind .margin of first segment with only the almost imper- 

 ceptible edge pallid ; hind margins of first four ventral segments 

 broadly dark rufous. Hair of face white ; some black hair on each 

 side of antennae; hair of metathorax white, of scutelluin black; 

 tibial scopa abundant, very strongly plumose, pale reddish. 



Hah. — Fedor, Texas, Oct. 4, 1899 {Birkmann). Named after 

 Mr. A. L. Melander, in recognition of his work on the insects of 

 Texas. 



Mi>lissodes bruesi u. sp. {pefalostemonis var.?) 



9 — Runs in my table to 31. tepaneca Cr., and galvestonensis Ckll. 

 From both of these it is easily known by the third abdominal seg- 

 ment having a narrow straight transverse median ligiit hair-band, 

 whereas in tepaneca and galvestonensis the whole- base of the seg- 

 ment is covered with light hair, and the lower edge of this hairy 

 region is conspicuously concave. The hair of the thorax above in 

 bruesi is neither so dense nor so brightly colored as in the other two 

 species. The new species has the general stature and appearance 

 of J/, communis Cress., from which it differs thus: hair of thorax 

 above reddish, without any black, that on scutellum rufo-fulvous ; 

 head somewhat broader ; tegulse a lively red ; wings rather paler ; 

 band on third abdominal segment about or hardly half as wide ; 

 black hairs as sides of base of fourth longer. The median bands on 

 segments 2 and 3 are not at all oblique ; the subbasal area on 2 is dis- 

 tinctly punctured. Hind margins of ventral segments 2 and 3 

 l)roadly red. 



Hab. — Fedor, Texas, May 5, 1902 {Birkmann). In addition to 

 the type, there are four other specimens; the. species flies as late as 

 June 12. One of the specimens is marked October, but it is much rub- 

 bed, and the hind margins of the abdominal segments are broadly red- 

 dened ; the disc of the mesothorax, which in the type is shining and 

 sparsely punctured, appears to be much more closely punctured in 

 this example, but the pin has destroyed the part which is most char- 



