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on each flank ferruginous; pleura black; a ferruginous spot beneath the tegulse 

 and a luteous subangular mark behind the anterior coxie ; tegulse feri'uginous, 

 fuscous at the base. Legs fulvous, yellowish beneath, sericeous; the four ante- 

 rior coxfe above, posterior pair entirely, and all the femora above, black. Abdo- 

 men subsericeous, fulvo-ferruginous, a longitudinal mark on the basal middle of 

 the first segment; basal margin of second segment dilated above and suddenly 

 dilated laterally; the narrow basal margin of the third and fourth segments 

 black; apex of the second and following segments stained more or less with fus- 

 cous; apical segment blackish, rugulose ; veutei" black. Length 22 mm. 



Hab. — Texas. 



P. texan us Cress. 9. — Dull ferruginous, sericeous. Head yellow; vertex, 

 occiput and posterior margin of the cheeks ferruginous ; clypeus subconves, 

 sparsely punctured, sometimes tinged with fulvous at the base ; antennse entirely 

 fulvo-ferruginous ; narrow margins of the prothorax. sometimes a band at the 

 base of the scutellum, postscutellum more or less, two stripes on the disc of the 

 metathorax, a spot or stripe on each side, a spot beneath the tegulse, a spot be- 

 neath the posterior wing and the tegulpe more or less yellow ; metathorax with a 

 shallow median groove, transversely striated ; sometimes the mesothorax has two 

 short discal lines. Abdomen strongly pale golden sericeous, rather broad apical 

 margin of all the segments, except the last, even on the first segment and more 

 or less strongly sinuate anteriorly on the remaining segments, an angular mark 

 on each side of the first segment sometimes reduced to a dot. and a spot on each 

 side of the remaining segments, larger on second and sometimes nearly confluent 

 with the apical band, all yellow ; all the apical bands slightly interrupted or in- 

 dented medially by a slender ferruginous line; venter ferruginous, more or less 

 varied with yellowish ; sometimes the yellowish markings on the second and fol- 

 lowing segments are more or less obscure; anterior coxse beneath, a line on the 

 outside of the four posterior coxae, four anterior femora beneath except base, tips 

 of all the femora and outside of all the tibite and base of tarsi more or less yel- 

 lowish, tips of tarsi fuscous. Wings yellowish fuscous, darker along the costa. 

 Length 21 mm. 



% . — Closely resembles the female ; the face flat as usual, whitish yellow, this 

 color extending above the antennie and on a line with the emargination of the 

 eyes; clypeus flat; prothorax sometimes broadly yellowish laterally: mesothorax 

 occasionally with two short discal yellow lines; the markings of the abdomen 

 vary considerably, being sometimes very distinct with the apical bands broad and 

 lemon-yellow and the lateral spots round and whitish; sometimes the apical 

 bands are narrow and the lateral spots wanting, except on the second segment ; 

 sometimes the flrst segment has no lateral spot. 



Hab. — Texas. 



P. bellicosus Cress. % 9 • — Uniformly dull ferruginous, subsericeous. 



9 . — Clypeus, sides of face, a transverse line above the antennae, posterior 

 orbits broader beneath and the mandibles yellow ; clypeus subconvex and sparsely 

 punctured ; tegulse. a line on the outer side of all the coxie. knees and four ante- 

 rior tibise and tarsi beneath, the narrow apical margin of the abdominal segments 

 more or less sinuate anteriorly, and sometimes a spot on each side of the first and 

 second segments, all lemon-yellow; mesothorax generally with a fine (central 

 longitudinal black line; metathorax finely and transversely wrinkled. Wings 

 fuscous, or fusco-hyaline, yellowish along costa, subviolaceous. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIV. JUNE, 1897. 



