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GORYTES (PSEUDOPLISUS) GYPONACINUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 10 mm. Anterior margin of clypeus truncate; 

 eyes strongly converging to clypeus; impressed middle line strong; 

 front very closely finely punctured with large, widely separate punc- 

 tures intermingled ; antennas normal for this group ; mesonotum and 

 scutellum with fine close punctures; suture between mesonotum and 

 scutellum foveolate; metapleural suture foveolate at top; bounding 

 sutures of enclosure subf oveolate ; extreme lower portion of posterior 

 face rugose; suture between metano turn and propodeum foveolate; 

 abdominal segments shining, the apical ones dulled with fine tessela- 

 tion; pygidium with large, separate punctures. Black; clypeus except 

 apical margin, spot above, lower half of inner orbits, scape, line on 

 pronotum, tubercles, spot behind, line on scutellum metanotum, large 

 spots on propodeum, apical band on all dorsal abdominal segments, 

 knees and legs below yellow or slightly brownish-yellow; wings clear 

 except fuscous radial cell; venation including stigma dark brown. 



Male. — What may be to be the male differs from the female besides 

 the usual sexual differences, in the more strongly foveolated suture 

 between the metanotum and propodeum; and the infuscate posterior 

 tarsi. 



Washington, District of Columbia. One female seen storing her 

 nest with a green bug {Gypona VHI-lineata flavilineata det. Heide- 

 mann) July 5, 1909, by A. K. Fisher. The male from Waldoboro, 

 Maine, collected July 24, 1909, by J. H. Lovell and recorded under his 

 number 4514. 



Type— Cat. No. 13748, U.S.N.M. 



This seems to be nearest to rufomaculatus Fox, but is not that 

 species; in some ways it is like venustiformis Rohwer, but the clearer 

 wings will readily separate it from that form. 



Since the above was written three metatypes have been studied; 

 two males, Trenton, New Jerse}^, August 10, 1906, and a female, Ger- 

 mantown, Pennsylvania, August, 28, 1906. Collected by II. S. 

 Harbeck. 



GORYTES (PSEUDOPLISUS) VENUSTIFORMIS, new species. 



Male. — Length about 10 mm. Allied to venustus Cresson, but 

 differs from that species in the following manner: The large, sparser 

 punctures of head and mesonotum; apical joints antennas shorter and 

 normal (not rounded beneath); lateral sutures of enclosure faintly 

 foveolate; a yellow spot below tegulse; yellow spots on the propo- 

 deum much larger; apical half of the wings dark brown, not yellowish. 



Boulder, Colorado. One male collected at flowers of Helianthus 

 pumilis, July 31, 1908, by S. A. Rohwer. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13749, U.S.N.M. 



