214 HYMENOPTEKA. 



Head opaque, shagreened, sparsely covered with black hairs, curved and rounded 

 behind ; the eyes almost parallel ; the ocelli in a triangle, the hinder ones separated 

 from each other by about the same distance they are from the eyes; the vertex 

 depressed and furrowed in the centre ; the clypeus with the sides straight, the apex trans- 

 verse. Antennae a little longer than the head and thorax united, the third joint 

 slightly longer than the fourth. Thorax opaque, the pleurae more shining; above 

 bearing a short pubescence, which is thicker and longer on the median segment. Pro- 

 notum a little shorter than the head, rounded at the base and apex ; scutellum narrowed 

 towards the apex, it being there not half the width of the base ; the median segment 

 at the apex almost transverse. Abdomen subpetiolate ; there is a large squarish yellow 

 spot on either side of the second segment, and the fifth and sixth segments are yellow 

 in the middle. Legs very long ; the tibial spines numerous, short, thick, the tarsal 

 spines somewhat longer and thinner ; the coxse, especially behind, covered with silvery 

 pubescence ; the long spur of the hind tibise not reaching the middle of the metatarsus. 

 Radial cellule elongate ; the second and third cubital cellules subequal above ; the 

 first and second transverse cubital nervures oblique, straight, the first being more sharply 

 oblique than the second, the third elbowed ; both the recurrent nervures are received 

 shortly before the middle of the cellule. 



^ 6. Notocyphus stimulator. 



Ni^er, antennis, linea pronoti, tegulis, geniculis, tibiis tarsisque anterioribus brunneo-testaceis ; alis flavo- 



hyalinis. $ . 

 Long. 16 millim. 



Hob. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 



Antennas stout, very slightly tapering towards the apex ; the third and fourth joints 

 subequal. Eyes almost parallel ; the hinder ocelli separated from each other by a 

 greater distance than they are from the eyes ; the apex of the clypeus transverse ; the 

 apex of the labrum incised in the middle. Prothorax shorter than the head ; the apex 

 rounded. Median segment elongate, with a gradually rounded slope to the apex. 

 Abdomen longer than the head and thorax united, subsessile. Legs long and slender ; 

 the tibial spines short ; the fore claws (but not the hind) with the tooth well deve- 

 loped ; the long spur of the hind tibiae reaching to the middle of the metatarsus. 



EPIPOMPILUS. 



Epipompilus, Kohl, Verb., zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiv. p. 57 (1885). 



x 1. Epipompilus maximiliani. 



Epipompilus maximiliani, Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiv. p. 57 \ nota ; xxxvi. p. 340 2 . 

 Hab. Mexico (Bilimek 2 ). 



