1928] 
The Mutillidae of Cuba 
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Genus Pseudomethoca Ashmead. 
1. Pseudomethoca salti n. sp. 
Female. Head broader than the thorax, pale ferruginous, 
densely clothed with appressed, brilliant ochraceous pubescence; 
thorax blackish; abdomen ferruginous; pygidium granulate. 
Length, 8 mm. 
Head pale ferruginous, densely clothed throughout with ap- 
pressed, brilliant ochraceous pubescence; mandibles ferruginous, 
black at the tips, edentate; anterior margin of the clypeus with 
a prominent tooth each side at a point about one-fourth the width 
of the clypeus from the base of the mandibles; medio-anterior 
area of clypeus glabrous, impunctate; antennal tubercles sep- 
arated by about half the length of the scape; scape ferruginous, 
glabrous, indistinctly punctate, with scattering, long, erect, pale 
hairs; first segment of flagellum longer than the second, but not 
as long as two and three united; antennal scrobes distinctly 
carinate above; puncturation of front and vertex obscured by 
the pubescence; gense closely, distinctly punctate, the pubes- 
cence sparse; posterior margin of the gense prominently carinate, 
the carina extending to the postero-lateral angles; relative 
widths of head and thorax, 6 — 5.2. 
Thorax hexagonal, strongly constricted behind the middle, 
very dark mahogany red, almost black, clothed above with 
sparse, inconspicuous, dark pubescence; dorsum of thorax 
densely and deeply punctate; scutellar scale absent; propleura 
closely punctate, a carina extending ventrally from the humeral 
angles; mesopleura, metapleura and sides of propodeum gla- 
brous, impunctate; anterior half of mesopleura with sparse, 
fine, pale pubescence; upper part of posterior face of propodeum 
coarsely punctato-reticulate, the ventral half with large, close 
punctures. 
Abdomen ferruginous; first segment completely sessile with 
the second; disk of first tergite with intermixed large and fine 
punctures, the posterior third with large, deep, dense punctures; 
posterior margin of first tergite with a fringe of dark ferruginous 
pubescence; second tergite ferruginous, the areas at the basal 
lateral angles very dark ferruginous, almost black; basal two- 
