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white hair; scutellum and its lateral spines shaped about as in texana; 
wings dusky, with the apical margins more deeply infuscated; coxe 
black with more or less obscure reddish at apices; tarsi mostly dark; 
spines on anterior coxe short; mesonotum at base and along lateral 
margins with lines of appressed, slightly ochreous hair, at base forming 
two spots near middle; scutellum at base with two transverse spots of 
similar pubescence; under side of scutellum at apex and metanotum 
with dense subappressed white hair; propodeum and pleure with long 
white hair; abdomen shiny, with sparse rather coarse punctures, last 
segment with a silky lustre the punctures longitudinally elongate, the 
last dorsal and ventral (Fig. 2, a) segments (Fig. 2, a) shaped about 
as in alternata; basal margin of segment one and apical margins of seg- 
ments 1-5 with lines of appressed white pubescence; segments 2-4 with 
diagonal lateral lines of similar pubescence near bases. 
Type-locality: Hearne, Texas. 
Described from five females collected ‘‘at nests in bogs”’, 
July 23, 1906, by F. C. Bishopp. 
The species is named in honor of Mr. W. D. Hunter in 
charge of the investigation from which these specimens were - 
obtained. 
Type—Specimen: Cat. No. 18218, U.S. N. M. 
This species in the structure of the apical plates is near 
texana and alternata; the last has dark legs; texana has the last 
ventral segment with almost parallel sides and apically broadly 
rounded; altenata and hunteri have this segment narrowed 
apically and consequently pointed at apex; in alternata the last 
dorsal segment is shiny and with sparse small punctures. 
Ceelioxys piercei new species. 
Female. Length about 9.5 mm. Black, including the legs, only 
the apical joints of the tarsi somewhat reddish; face rather finely rugoso- 
punctate; antenne black; vertex and mesoscutum closely, coarsely 
punctured, scutellum slightly coarser rugoso- punctate; face and dorsum 
of thorax with slightly ochraceous pubescence, more abundant on sides 
of face and around antennz and forming lines along anterior and lateral 
margins of mesoscutum and indistinctly so along base of scutellum; 
pleurze with abundant lighter colored hair; lateral teeth of scutellum 
moderate in length, slightly incurved; tegule black; wings slightly . 
dusky with the apical margins broadly deeply infuscated; abdomen 
closely, rather coarsely punctured, the last segment more closely and 
finely punctured, segments 2 and 3 with a deep and segments 4 and 5 
with a shallow transverse furrow; segments 1-5 with apical bands of 
appressed white pubescence and segment 1 with the lateral margins 
with similar hair; base of first segment with an indistinct band of slightly 
ochraceous hair; last dorsal segment with a median longitudinal carina, 
