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Hab.—Mesilla Park, N. M. College campus, June 7, ’99 
(Ckll.). ‘* Digging in sand.’’ 
Related to O. abdominalis Baker, from which it may be 
known by its larger size, shining abdomen, with the punctures 
on the second segment more widely separated ; the pale ferru- 
ginous, instead of dark. brown, venation and the narrower 
spine. 
Oxybelus townsendi n. sp. j’. Length5 mm. Head and thorax rather 
densely but finely punctured, covered with fine silvery pubescence which 
is denser on the face, cheeks, prothorax and upper posterior face of meta- 
thorax ; clypeal process prominent ; mesonotum without depression ; 
scutellum and postscutellum carinated, postscutellum not so strongly ; 
squama rising from side of postscutellum, short, strongly curved and 
sharply pointed ; spine rounded at tip and slightly broader, grooved 
above until apical third ; areas of the metathorax well defined, posterior 
face surrounded by a ridge, on posterior face below spine is an oval shin- 
ing fovea ; abdomen finely punctured, first segment somewhat truncate 
at base, the medial depression broad but distinct, second segment with a 
narrow transverse basal depression. Color black ; mandibles at tip pic- 
eous ; antennae, mouth parts, base of tegulae, anterior tibiae and tarsi 
dull rufous ; eyes (dry) pale yellowish brown ; squama pallid ; first, sec- 
ond and third abdominal segments on apical margin dull white ; first on 
each side with a line of yellow; a yellowish spot on base of hind tibia ; 
three apical segments and narrow apical margin of the one before ru- 
fous ; abdomen with sparse silvery pubescence. Wings hyaline, nerv- 
ures brown. 
Hab.—lVas Cruces, N. M., August 30. Flowers of Solidago 
canadensis. Dedicated to Prof. C. H. T. Townsend, who col- 
lected it. 
This species has its nearest ally in O. similis Cress., from 
which it may be separated by the different shape of the post- 
scutellum, its being feebly carinated ; fovea in face of meta- 
thorax not produced beneath, the abdomen evenly punctured 
throughout ; pubescence on mesothorax silvery and other color 
characters. 
Accompanied on the flowers by O. sparideus, O. emarginatus 
and O. cornutus. 
Belomicrus cladothricis Ckll., on Croton, between Rowe and old Pecos 
Pueblo, N. M., Sept. (W. P. Ckll.). This extends the range a long dis- 
tance northward. 
