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Legs yellow, coxae and troehiiuters partly, femora above, and 

 posterior tibiae above, black or piceous. Tibiae supplied with numbers 

 of irregularly placed minute spines on outer surface. 



Wings iridescent, the veins dark, the membrane deep smoky on costal 

 half, subhyaline on anal half. Second cubital cell distinctly shorter 

 than third on the cubital nervure. Third abscissa of radius somewhat 

 longer than first two together. 



Collected at Claremont in Southern California by C. F. 'Raker. 



5794 Hoplisoides arizonensis n. sp. 



A small compact black species with narrow yellow n:arkings, figur- 

 ed wings and yellow legs. 



Female: Length S mm. Pubescence very scant and fine everywhen^, 

 with a few long hairs between ocelli and along sides of abdomen. 



Head as broad as pronotum, with a coarise and rather open punct- 

 uration on a minuitely denseily punctate background, sides of face 

 nearly smooth. Face between eyes broader than long. Inner orbits not 

 at all emarginate above, parallel b.elow. Inner orbits below, basal two- 

 thirds of clypeus, and sca.pe underneath, yellow. Flagelluni clavate, 

 piceous above, ferruginous below. 



Mesono'tum punctured like the vertex, the scutel l^cw strongly. 

 Mesopleurae coarsely sparsely punctate, with a non-foveolated rimmed 

 furrow in front and below. Furrow beitween meso-and metapleurae with 

 a simple but deep groove withini, carinately rimmed only in front, 

 Upper a.rea of metanotum with a rather fine bounding groove, its 

 disc bearing on either side of the median groove about twelve fine 

 oblique carinae. Posterior face of the metanotum entirely coarsely 

 rugoso-punetate, the rugate extending on to the sides apically. The 

 yellow markings of thorax are a narrow prouotal line narrowed 

 medially, the tubercles, and a bigeminate nmrk on scutel. Tegulae fe- 

 rruginous. 



Abdomen black with narrow apical bands on segments 1-V, the first 

 broader and medially widely emarginate, the others slightly emargi- 

 nate on the sides. Venter without yellow. Ventral median line of first 

 segment deeply incurved on apical half. Pygidium bluntly rounded at 

 tip, its entire surface coarsely longitudinally rugoso-punetate. 



Lags bright ferruginous, coxae, trochanters, and femora witliin at 

 base, black. Tibiae with a few stout spines laterally, the spines of 

 tarsi in part remarkably long and stout. 



Wings iridescent, irregularly fus''ons, the veins dark, the stigma strtnw 

 colored. The fuscous areas are a small one on transverse median nervure 

 a simple but deep groove within, carinaitely rimmed only in front, 

 and second discoidal cell, with the coloring extending into third disro- 

 idal and third submarginal cells. Second cubital cell di&tinctly shorter 



