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30. Face with many erect brown bristle-like hairs among the appressed 
light ones; punctures of first abdominal segment laterad less than a 
punctire-widithy apante os askeer ce oat wie ee Sere ee ee pratti n. sp. 
Face without dark bristle-like hairs; first abdominal segment sparsely 
jO(6UaYey abi geCO uae Hier g2K6 bp oe ca er eee Rn ei rh ee cet ei ae octodentata Say. 
31. Last dorsal segment strongly angularly narrowed..:..................+- 32 
Last dorsal segment at. most roundly narrowed.:.........0.......:2-+00- 33 
32. ‘‘Part of last dorsal beyond constriction much larger than wide,”’ 
rufitarsis Smith 
“Part of last dorsal beyond constriction almost as wide as long’’ 
comstockii Cress. 
3a: .< Larger: 13 min long V0 Ale Re. PAE Foe me ree eee lucrosa Cress. 
Smaller, hardly 12 mm. Mae abdomen more slender and more closely 
punctured wh ne cee L eee ge Rae oOo Ne i Re eet anne moesta Cress. 
Ceelioxys obtusiventris new species. 
Length about 11mm. Black, the tegule and legs, except coxe, 
ferruginous; face coarsely rugoso-punctate, vertex coarsely punctured; 
the punctures separated by much less than a puncture width; scape 
and pedicel (rest of antennze missing) dark, obscurely reddish; face with 
white hair, dense along inner orbits, interspersed with long bristle-like 
hairs; mesoscutum and scutellum with punctures as on vertex; scutellum 
with a tubercle medially on posterior margin; lateral teeth long; mesono- 
tum with pubescence along anterior margin and base of scutellum 
(badly worn); wings infuscated, apically more deeply so; abdomen 
sparsely, rather coarsely punctured; segments 1-5 with apical bands of 
white hair; second, third and fourth segments with transverse furrows, 
interrupted medially, apicad of these furrows there is an almost impunc- 
tate line, the extreme apices of these segments with a few punctures; 
last segment with a few scattered finer punctures, constricted, the apical 
portion covered with erect brown hairs, the éxtreme tip upturned; — 
ventral segments, except apex of last, coarsely, closely punctured, last 
ventral very broad, not notched, medially produced into a long straight 
spine, with a very strong fringe of brown hair. 
One specimen from the C. F. Baker collection with the rec- 
ord “Florida; Palm.” 
Type specimen Cat. No. 18217, U.S. N. M: 
Although the single specimen is badly rubbed it is described 
since it is easily separated from the other species having the 
last dorsal segment turned up at apex and by that segment 
being almost impunctured. The spine at the apex of the 
segment is also much longer, in the other species being hardly 
more than an angulation of the apex. 
Ceelioxys alternata Say. 
In the table this species occurs twice since the fringe of 
hairs along the margin of the last ventral segment is not very 
strong and there might be some difficulty on this account if 
the species were not listed under both categories 
