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We have spectroscopically identified 60 Galactic Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars,including 38 nitrogen types (WN) and 22 carbon types (WC). Using photometryfrom the Spitzer/GLIMPSE and 2MASS databases, the WRs were selected via amethod we have established that exploits their unique infrared colors, which ismainly the result of excess radiation from free-free scattering within theirdense ionized winds. The selection criteria has been refined since our lastreport, and now yields WRs at a rate of ~20% in spectroscopic follow-up ofcandidates that comprise a broad color space defined by the color distributionof all known WRs having B>14 mag. However, there are subregions within thebroad color space which yield WRs at a rate of >50%. Cross-correlation of WRcandidates with archival X-ray point-source catalogs increases the WR detectionrate of the broad color space to ~40%; ten new WR X-ray sources have beenfound, in addition to a previously unrecognized X-ray counterpart to a knownWR. The extinction values, distances, and galactocentric radii of all new WRsare calculated using the method of spectroscopic parallax. Although themajority of the new WRs have no obvious association with stellar clusters, twoWC8 stars reside in a previously unknown massive-star cluster that lies nearthe intersection of the Scutum-Centaurus Arm and the Galaxy's bar, in whichfive OB supergiants were also identified. In addition, two WC and four WN starswere identified in association with the stellar clusters Danks 1 and 2. A WN9star has also been associated with the cluster [DBS2003] 179. This work bringsthe total number of known Galactic WRs to 476, or ~7-8% of the totalempirically estimated population. An examination of their Galactic distributionreveals a tracing of spiral arms and an enhanced WR surface density towardseveral massive-star formation sites (abridged).

Red Eyes on Wolf-Rayet Stars: 60 New Discoveries via Infrared Color Selection