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brasiliana and Gerstaeekeri) by the dense fulvous pubescence with 

 which the pronotum and dorsulum are clothed. 



9 . — Black ; mandibles reddish in part ; head in front, occiput 

 and thorax above with long golden yellow pubescence, particularly 

 dense on the pronotum and anterior portion of dorsulum, the latter 

 in the middle nude, as well as middle of scutellum, metanotum and 

 upper surface of middle segment; thorax beneath, legs, first dorsal 

 and the ventrals more or less with long griseous pubescence, dorsals 

 1-3 with sparse pale pubescence longest at sides, the fourth, fifth 

 and sixth with black pubescence, dorsals 1-3 and ventrals 2-5 

 fringed with white pubescence at apex ; clypeus strongly punctured 

 basally, smooth medially, and bearing folds or rugoe on apical por- 

 tion ; front strongly punctured, transverse smooth space before the 

 ocelli ; vertex with larger scattered punctures, which become closer 

 on the occiput; scape with a few scattered punctures; dorsulum 

 strongly punctured laterally and anteriorly, perfectly smooth and 

 polished medially; scutellum, metanotum and median divisions of 

 middle segment with large separated punctures at the sides, impunc- 

 tate medially ; outer lobes or divisions of middle segment with finer, 

 shallower punctures, their punctures stronger in the middle of their 

 upper surfaces, the sides of which are sharply carinated, the carinse 

 not extending on the posterior surfiice ; spines of the legs and the 

 calcaria black ; wings fulvous, slightly bluish on a[)ical portion, the 

 second transverso cubital nervure sinuated, pertaining to angular in 

 some specimens; abdomen above with sparse, shallow punctures, 

 strongest toward the sides and on the first, fourth and fifth segments, 

 base of second, and sides of third, fourth and fifth ventrals with 

 strong punctures, the lateral punctures of third segment, however, 

 not reaching its base, the second and third with two, the fourth and 

 fifth with one, series of transverse punctures, sixth with finer, scat- 

 tered punctures; pygidial area longitudinally and irregularly rugose. 

 Length 16-17 mm. 



$ . — Colored like the female, but the abdomen bluish, the pubes- 

 cence of the body denser throughout, is finer, less yellow on the 

 thorax and is very dense in the middle segment ; form slender, simi- 

 lar to E. plumipes $ ; antennaj fully as long as head, thorax and 

 first segment of abdomen united, the first joint of flagellum distinctly 

 shorter than the second ; thorax on sides and beneath clothed with 

 a silky pile in addition to the long pubescence ; dorsulum and middle 

 segment on upper and posterior surfaces punctured throughout; legs 



