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pressed parapsidal grooves, which attain the posterior margin of the segment, but 

 fall short of the anterior margin by about one-third the length of the segment; 

 scutelluni shining, almost impuuctate, bisected by a longitudinal furrow, the few 

 punctures on its surface being along the margins and the longitudinal furrow; 

 postscutellum with the same sculpture scheme as the scutellum; superior and 

 posterior aspects of the nietathoras smooth, shining and with deep almost adjoin- 

 ing punctures; wings fuscous, with a violaceous reflection, the apical acute an- 

 gled portion of the median cell, the first submarginal and the basal acute angled 

 portion of the marginal cell yellow, the nervure adjojning this yellow area light 

 brown, the other nervures and portions of nervures daik brown. 



Abdomen. — Tiie segments with much the same scheme of punctuation as the 

 dorsulum, the pygidium, however, very closely apparently striate punctate. 



Pubescence reddish, inconspicuous or absent, excepting for a fringe around the 

 insertion of the autennaj, the posterior aspect of the head, the lateral aspects of 

 the prouotum, pro- and mesopleura, coxae, trochanters, femora, tibise and meta- 

 tarsi, abdominal segments at base, apex and laterally, pygidium covered with 

 short appressed golden bristles. 



Black ; legs, excepting coxae and trochanters, which are black or blackish, more 

 or less dark brown, spurs testaceous or brownish testaceous, second dorsal seg- 

 ment with each lateral third, almost completely occupied by an almost circular 

 yellow mark, a more oval yellow mark on each side of the third dorsal segment 

 occupying all but about the middle fifth of the segment, on the fourth dorsal seg- 

 ment the oval yellow marks occupy nearly all of the segment, being separated 

 only by a T-shaped brown area, the fifth dorsal segment brown, the ventral seg- 

 ments black and brown. 



Type. — University of Kansas. 



Type locality. — Hamilton Co., Kansas. 



One 5 , the type collected by S. J. Hunter, another 9 (paratype), 

 from the collection of Wm. J. Fox, collected in Wallace County, 

 Kansas, 3000 ft., by F. H. Snow. 



The paratype differs from the type in having the frontal sulcus 

 reduced to a pit, with a shallow groove extending laterally therefrom 

 almost at right angles, in having a slight median longitudinal im- 

 pression on the vertex and dorsulum and a less pronounced longitu- 

 dinal groove on the scutellum, the pygidium, which has the hair 

 rubbed off", is dull and rather shallowly, closely punctate, median, 

 submedian and part of second discoidal cell yellow. 



Variety a. — 9- — Structurally diflerent from the type in being almost exactly 

 like the paratype and differing from both in having the pubescence golden 

 instead of reddish. 



Type. — University of Kansas. 



Type locality.— Hamilton Co., Kansas. 



One 9 taken in July, by S. J. Hunter. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXII. JULY, 1906. 



