250 HENRY h. VIERECK. 



Coloi-. — Green, with bluish reflections, sntnres of abdomen flee]) blue and pur- 

 pie; auteniise black, scape green ; legs brownisli, tibiae greenish, femora green. 



T3'pe locality, Florence, Arizona. Type, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 9, .May 23, 80, 1903, Florence, Arizona (C. R. Biederman). 



Parnopes excurvata n. sp. 



9 . About 10 mm. long. Head. — Face pubescent but not densely, the depressed 

 area punctured, the sculpture of the front above the end of the scape similar to 

 that on vertex and cheeks; malar space present but not as long as the terminal 

 joint of the flagellum. 



Thorax. — Sides of the prouotum seen from above presenting an anterior and 

 posterior point with a bulged portion between; mesonotuni with indistinct 

 parapsidal grooves, the space between more closely punctured than the parap- 

 sides; mesopleura pubescent, like the face in part at least, traversed by an 

 oblique rather distinct fovea or groove; scutellum sharply separated from the 

 adjoining segments, i.e., with distinct sutures; process of postscutellum distinctly 

 wider at apex than at base, the emargination not quite so wide as the prong ; pos- 

 terior lateral corners of the scutellum and sides of the postscutellum pubescent 

 like the face. 



Abdomen. — Anterior face of the first segment depressed in three places, the me- 

 dian depression very well marked ; segments with small punctures at base, large 

 separated punctures in the middle, no long median impunctate space; apical 

 margins of segments rugulose and with a distinct narrow band of pubescence 

 laterally; apical segment with the depressions filled with dense silvery pubes- 

 cence and not very deep, beyond the depressions the segment is testaceous, the 

 edge subemarginate, with about fifteen large spines. 



Co/or.— Green, with bluish reflections; process of postscutellum black or nearly, 

 antennse and legs dark testaceous to brown, scape and femora darkest, and green 

 on one side. 



Type locality, Florence, Arizona. Type, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 Florence, Ariz. (C. R. Biederman). 



