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Cerceris jucunda Cress. 
From Fedor, Lee County, Texas, 6 April (Birkmann). The 
hair-lobes of male are scarcely more than one-half their breadth 
apart. The pygidial area is narrower than in C. compar, and 
more narrowed at base; the last joint of the antenne is as long 
as preceding joint, but thick, and not curved. 
Cerceris jucunda carolina n. var. 
From Southern Pines, I have specimens a little larger than 
the type, with a rather broad head; there are large yellow 
stripes on the mesonotum, and the pygidial area is hardly nar- 
rowed at base; the mesosternal processes are of the same shape 
as C. jucunda. With a larger series it will perhaps prove a 
distinct species. 
Cerceris blakei Cress. 
From Falls Church, Va., 28 July, and Southern Pines, N. 
Car., June and July. In the female the clypeal process is more 
erect than in C. irene, the pygidial area of female is fully twice 
as long as broad, the sides convex. 
Cerceris rufinoda Cress. 
From Falls Church, Va., August, and Fedor, Texas, June. 
The female from Falls Church has the face black, except a large 
spot each side; the pygidial area is long, very narrow at base, 
sides convex, and tip truncate; in the male the pygidial area is 
short, and not narrowed at base; the clypeus convexly rounded 
below as in C. finitima, the hair-lobes nearly one and a-half 
times their breadth apart. The variety C. rufinoda crucis 
Vier, and Ckll., comes from Lee County, Texas. 
Cerceris irene n. sp. 
2 Face wholly yellow; scape yellow, barely reddish above, flagellum 
rufous beneath, blackish above; vertex with a reddish spot each side, 
and reddish behind, and with a yellow spot behind the eyes; large 
spots on pronotum, tegule, large spots (almost contiguous) on the 
scutellum, and band on the post-scutellum, yellow. Mesonotum mostly 
reddish, with a black patch each side, meso- and meta-sternum reddish. 
First and second segments of the abdomen reddish, latter with apical 
yellow band and moderately wide bands on the next three segments; 
venter reddish at base; legs wholly reddish yellow; wings fumose, 
stigma almost black. Body very coarsely punctate; clypeal process but 
little elevated, apex nearly truncate, and reddish; antennz situated 
