24 Harry Scott Smith 
One female, Glen, August 8, 1905; another taken at Carns, 
July 1, 1902 (W. D. Pierce) ; one male, Warbonnet canyon. The 
two females have the markings reddish yellow, due, no doubt, to 
having been left in the cyanide bottle too long. 
Hoplisus elegantulus, n. sp. 
3$. Length 8.5 mm. Ground color shining black. Head black; eyes quite 
strongly convergent below, the distance between them equal to slightly 
more than one-half that between them on a line drawn through the pos- 
terior ocelli; interior eye margins slightly raised; front with punctures 
dense, appearing to be almost granulate; ocelli situated on a slight promi- 
nence, the distance between the posterior ones equal to that between them 
and the nearest eye margin; before the anterior ocellus is a short longi- 
tudinal depression; occiput and cheeks finely and more sparsely punctured, 
shining; clypeus convex, quite closely punctured excepting the disk, on 
which the punctures are more sparse; clypeus and labrum entirely yellow; 
mandibles black, rufous apically, quite strongly punctured basally; flagel- 
lum brownish black, scape yellow beneath; lower half of inner eye mar- 
gins marked with yellow; clypeus, mandibles, and front with a few short 
silvery hairs. Prothorax short, entirely yellow above. Mesonotum en- 
tirely black, shining, with a few shallow punctures; suture between meso- 
notum and scutellum with about ten strong foveae; mesopleura shining 
black with sparse punctures; tubercles black, a reniform spot behind them 
yellow; tegulae rufous with a yellowish blotch; posterior half of scutellum 
yellow, postscutellum black; triangular area of metanotum with about 
twelve strong longitudinal ridges which are extended to the. posterior face, 
the lower portion of which, together with the posterior portion of the 
metapleura, becomes irregularly coarsely reticulate; metathoracic epimeron 
shining, with sparse punctures; a small yellow dot at the latero-posterior 
corners of the metathorax. Abdomen shining black, basal segment im- 
punctate, and with a yellow band which is strongly notched anteriorly in 
the middle; second segment with a few fine punctures apically and a nar- 
row yellow band; next three segments somewhat more distinctly punctured, 
each with a narrow yellow apical band, and with a sparse covering of short 
reddish hairs; the two remaining segments without yellow markings, apical 
segment with a process; venter shining black, finely punctured; second 
ventral segment with a narrow yellow band apically. Anterior coxae black, 
femora black, reddish basally and yellowish apically; tibiae yellow with a 
longitudinal black spot outwardly; tarsi entirely yellow; intermediate and 
posterior coxae with a yellow dot; intermediate femora, tibiae and tarsi as 
anterior ones; posterior tibiae yellow, black basally, tarsi piceous. Wings 
hyaline, marginal cell dark, veins dark and slightly margined with smoky. 
9. Unknown. 
Type, a male taken at Glen, Sioux county, Nebraska, August 
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