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ocelli; antennae fulviform reaching almost to the apical margin 

 of the first tergite, the third and fourth joints subequal; pronotum 

 and mesonotum shiny with a few fine pmictures; dorsal aspect of 

 the propodeum as in the female; first abdominal segment much 

 longer than the second which is subequal in length with the third; 

 the basal four abdominal segments above with a few fine punctures, 

 the apical segments with a number of large punctures; apical margin 

 of the pygidium broadly rounded with the usual median notch. 

 Black; base of mandibles, labrum, clypeus, dorsal margin, and a spot 

 on the side of the pronotum, spot on the tegula, a spot just inside 

 the tegula, two spots on the scutellum, a band on the metanotum, 

 broad band on the first three dorsal segments (on the third the band 

 is rather broader in the middle where it is slightly emarginate), 

 narrow apical margin of the third dorsal segment, apical margin of 

 the second, third, and fourth ventral segments (the second ventral 

 segment has the band broader in the middle) yellow; the scape, 

 legs below the trochanters and three apical abdominal segments 

 rufous; wings color of the female; covered with pubescence as in 

 the female with the exception that that on the thorax to the basal 

 part of the abdomen is reddish yeUow. 



Mayaguez, Porto Rico. Described from two females (one type) 

 and one male allotype collected by C. W. Hooker. 



Type.— Csit. No. 15078, U.S.N.M. 



Family PSAMMOCHARIDAE. 

 Genus CEROPALES Latreille. 



CEROPALES STRETCHII Fox. 



Ceropales stretchii Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 19, 1892, p. 52. Female. 

 Ceropales fraterna, var. ocddentalis Cockerell, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 2, 

 1898, p. 455. Male. 



The type of Ceropales fraterna, var. occidentalis Cockerell (Cat. No. 

 15364, U.S.N.M.) is the undescribed male of C. stretchii Fox and is 

 closely allied to fraterna but may be distinguished from it by the yellow 

 band on the first tergite. 



CEROPALES NEOMEXICANA, new species. 



Related to albopicta Cresson, but may be distinguished by the 

 almost entirely black four anterior femora. 



Male. — Length, 8 mm. Antennae as long as the head and thorax 

 together. Anterior margin of the clypeus truncate; head shining, 

 front with a few widely scattered punctures; frontal impressed line 

 faint, poorly defined; postocellar line one-fourth shorter than the 

 ocellocular line; pronotum shining, impunctate; scutum shining, the 

 middle with large separate punctures; scutellum practically impunc- 

 tate as is also the metanotum; mesepisternum opaque with large, 



