156 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. VII, 
Ccelioxys slossoni Viereck. 
In the collection of the U. S. Nat. Mus. are two badly 
rubbed females which agree with Viereck’s original description, 
one with the record ‘‘Palm Beach, Fla., 3-’00, collection C. F. 
Baker’’, the other without locality from the Ashmead collection. 
The Palm Beach specimen has the apex of the third segment 
dusky. 
Ccelioxys slossoni arenicola new variety. 
Female. Length about 13.5 mm. Differs only in having the 
abdomen, except basal segment, black (one has segments 2 and 3 in 
part obscurely reddish) and the wings subhyaline with dusky margins. 
Male. Length 10.5 mm. Similar to the female in sculpture and 
color; the apex of the abdomen with 4 teeth the upper pair blunt some- 
what flattened and divergent the lower pair longer pointed subparallel; 
base of last segment with a tooth on each side; fifth segment not toothed. 
Type-locality: Brownsville, Texas, (April 17, 1895, C..H. T. 
Townsend, collector). 
Allotype male from San Diego, Texas. 
Other localities: Calhoun, Co., Texas, J. D. Mitchell, 
collector, one female; Nuecestown, Texas, 4-28-96, C. L. 
Marlatt, collector, one male; also two paratype females from 
Brownsville, Texas, and one male from-San Diego, Texas. 
Type—Specimen: Cat. No. 18222, U.S. N. M. 
It is most probable that the species recorded from Galveston, 
Texas, by Brues* as menthae is this form. 
Ceelioxys asteris new species. 
Female. Length about 14 mm. (abdomen unduly extended). 
Black with the tegule reddish-testaceous and the legs, except coxe, 
ferruginous; face below antenne finely rugoso-punctate, above antennz 
coarsely punctured with an impunctured but lineolate area laterad of 
each lateral ocellus but none in front of and beside anterior ocellus; 
third joint of antenne much shorter than fourth (see fig. 4, b,); reflexed 
lateral margins of pronotum strongly developed, translucent; mesoscu- 
tum with coarse, close punctures; scutellum rugoso-punctate and with 
a rather indistinct median longitudinal carina; lateral teeth of scutellum 
rather long, somewhat incurved, thick dorso-ventrad and carinate above 
along inner edge; wings deeply infuscated, more so along apical margins; 
abdomen finely, sparsely punctured, segments 2-4 each with a shallow 
transverse impression broadly interrupted medially; caudad of these 
furrows the segments almost impunctured; base of last segment more 
*Entom. News, XIV, 83, 1903. 
