AET. 14 liTEW SPHECOID WASPS MALLOCH AND EOHWEE 



tudinally striate. Fore legs as in Figure 5; the fore coxae not ap- 

 j)reciably flattened in front. Other legs and venation of wings 

 normal. 



Female. — Length, 8 mm. Clypeus convex, the apical margin 

 depressed and strongly tridentate, the teeth of equal width and 

 length; the distance between the inner margins of the antennal fos- 

 sae slightly less than the distance between the outer margin and inner 

 margin of the eye ; f rons with close, distinct punctures ; vertex with 

 the punctures slightly more separated than those on the f rons ; posto- 

 cellar line distinctly shorter than ocellocular line; pronotum and 

 mesoscutum with distinct punctures which are separated by a distance 

 less than the width of the punctures ; scutellum punctured similarly 

 to the mesoscutum except medianly, where the punctures are very 

 widely separated; propodeum with the enclosure sharply defined 

 and terminating almost at the transverse carina which separates 

 the posterior and dorsal aspects; the surface of the enclosure with 

 irregular wrinkles basally, separsely coriaceous apically; the sides 

 of the dorsal aspect finely, obliquely, irregularly wrinkled. Mesep- 

 isternum closely punctured and ventrally with irregular wrinkles so 

 as to appear striato-punctate ; the dorsal plate of the episternum 

 opaque and punctured throughout ; sides of the propodeum obliquely 

 striato-punctate. Abdomen shining, pygidium sharply defined, the 

 apical margin subtruncate, the surface covered with dense yellowish 

 bristles. Black; mandibles, except apices, scape beneath yellowish; 

 palpi pale brown ; tarsi obscurely f errugineous ; intermediate femora 

 and posterior tibiae beneath piceous; posterior femora dark rufous; 

 abdomen entirely rufous; wings dusky hyaline with the usual in- 

 fuscated area in the radial cell and across the wing. Venation pale 

 brown. 



Type locality. — Glen Echo, Md. 



Allotype locality. — Millville, N. J. 



Paratype localities. — Falls Church, Va., and northern Illinois. 



Type.—C2,t. No. 29369, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two males (one type) from the type locality col- 

 lected August 30, 1923, by J. R. Malloch; one female (allotype) 

 collected August 6, 1916, by E. R. Kalmbach; one male (paratype) 

 collected at Falls Church, Va., September 4, 1915, by C. T. Greene; 

 and one female (paratype) from northern Illinois. 



The male specimen from Falls Church has the basal abdominal 

 segments entirely rufous and the tip of the abdomen paler than in 

 the other two males. The female of this species closely resembles 

 texana but it is larger and the head and thorax are more closely 

 punctured, while the propodeum is less coarsely sculptured. 



