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marg^iiial cell, and with a diffused fuscous cloud in the 

 apical re<rion, beyond the niarp;inal cell. Head broad ; 

 cjypcus not produced, its up])cr part closely and finely 

 punctured, the lower part (with an anfjular projection above 

 in middle) dull cream-colour, depressed, shiiiiu?, with only 

 a few scattered punctures ; mandibles normal, dark reddish 

 subapically; antennae lon^ ; sides of face with conspicuous 

 pale hair, contrasting with the bare clypeus ; front and 

 vertex dull and minutely granular; hair of head and thorax 

 above short, rather dull white ; mesothorax dull and 

 granular (extremely densely punctured) ; scutellum more 

 shiniufr, but finely and dcnselv punctured ; upper border 

 of protliorax at sides, tubercles, and base of postscutcllum 

 covered with dense, pale, felt-like hair; area of metathorax 

 poorly defined, shiuinoc but closely striatulate ; posterior 

 truncation with sharp lateral marj?ins failing above ; wing- 

 veins all distinct, third s.m. not elongate. Abdomen dull 

 and minutely granular (extremely densely and minutely 

 punctate as seen under compound microscope), the bases of 

 second and third segments broadly, and most of fourth, 

 shining; no hair-bands, but base of third segment at sides 

 (second also slightly), and whole of fourth (partly abraded 

 in type) and following segments, covered with fine, ochreous, 

 felt-like hair : apical part of venter reddish. 



Hab. Amatitlan, Guatemala, Feb. 1912 [fV.P. Cockerel!). 



A well-marked species, running in Crawford^s table of 

 North-American species nearest to H. trizonatus, Cresson, 

 but with the abdomen and wings differently marked and the 

 tegulae punctured. 



Sphecodes patruelis, sp. n. 



Sphecodei* minor, Cockerell, Canad. Entom., Ang. 1904, p. 231 

 (Olynipia, Washington Statp). 



? . — Length 7 mm. or a little more. 



Abdomen entirely red ; tarsi, and anterior tibiae in front, 

 dark ferruginous; flagellum broadly chestnut-red beneath. 



When this was recorded as minor, it was remarked that 

 actual comparison of specimens might prove it different 

 from Robertson's species. I now have the genuine S. minor, 

 Rob., collected by :\Iiss Eleth Cattell a\ Wood's Hole, 

 Mass., and it is distinct from the north-western insect, 

 although undoubtedly closely allied, S. patruelis '\% rediWy 

 more like the south-western S. sophice, Ckll., from which 

 the female diff'ers by the very dusky, reddish wings, and the 

 Itvss hairy face and front. Specimens from intermediate 



