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4. Length 20 mm.; abdomen hardly pubescent (Utah) . . connexus Fox. 
Length 14 mm.; abdomen distinctly pubescent . . primaaestate n. sp. 
Bembex nubilipennis Cress. 
Male, Rocky Ford, Colo., July 4, 1904; female, labeled 
eRe Cr 
Bembex sayi Cress. 
Female, Salida, Colo., Oct. 3, 1898; 2 females, Cope, Colo., 
Aug. 9, 1905 (S. A. Johnson). 
Bembex amoena Hdl. 
Male, Alamosa, Colo., Aug. 6, 1903; male, Rocky Ford, 
Colo., July 4, 1904. 
Bembex spinolae St. Farg. 
Two females, Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 10, 1907 (Hite) ; female, 
Sept. 12, 1907, fls. Chrysothamnus graveolens, also Oct., 6, 
1907, Boulder, Colo. (Roh.). The Boulder ones have a very 
small spot below tegulae. 4 
Bembex primaaestate John. and Roh., n. sp.—-2. Length 14 mm.; 
clypeus rather irregularly punctured with shallow punctures ; mandibles 
with a small tooth, about one-fourth from apex ; front impunctate, or if 
punctured, very finely so; ocellar region with some distinct punctures ; 
vertex and occiput straight ; scape and first flagellar joint of about equal 
length, first joint of flagellum fully as long as 2+ 3; dorsulum with 
rather indistinct, close punctures, sparse on posterior part; scutellum 
with punctures more distinct and separated ; mesopleura finely punc- 
tured ; metathorax punctured as scutellum ; anterior tarsi strongly flat- 
tened, base of first joint emarginate beneath ; pulvilli large and somewhat 
bent toward apex ; abdomen above rather strongly reticulate, apical seg- 
ments punctured ; ventral segments finely reticulate, with some large 
punctures. Black; clypeus, labrum, mandibles, except apex, which is 
piceous, scape and flagellum beneath, inner orbits to ocelli, intercellular 
spot, spot: between antennae, a large spot on each side of first abdo- 
minal segment above, segments 2-5 with broad bands, which are dentate 
at the sides (second and third more strongly so), and spot on ventral 
segments 2, 3, 4, greenish-white; posterior orbits, prothorax except a 
spot in the middle, tegulae, spot above, a spot on each side of scutellum, 
line on postscutellum, large spot on mesopleura, spot above middle 
coxae, a large and small spot on metapleura, spot on trochanters, most 
of femora (more deeply so at sides), tibiae except a small spot beneath 
at apex, and tarsi, bright yellow ; wings clear hyaline iridescent ; head, 
thorax and abdomen with long white pile. 
