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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[Feb., '20 



Eumerus grandicornis andfuneralis Meigen, Syst. Beschreib. Ill, 208, 

 1822. 



E. lunulatus and planifrons Meigen, 1. c. Ill, 209. 



E. aeneus Macquart, Soc. Sc. Lille, 269, 1827. 



E- selene Loew, Programm Posen, V, 28, and Isis, V, 561, 1840. 



Microxylota robii Jones, gen. et sp. nov., Annals Ent. Soc. of America, 

 X, p. 230. 



cf 1 . Vertex rather long, aeneous, with black pile in front a little longer 

 than the second joint of the antenna; the rest of the pile on the head is 

 sparse and yellowish. Eyes with a few very fine white hairs behind and 

 below. Frontal triangle and epistoma gray pruinose, the ground color 

 of the frons obscured. Face dark green in color and white pilose. Eyes 

 touching for a short distance above the antennse. Antennae blackish, 

 the third joint more brown and distinctly longer than broad; thickly gray 

 pruinose; the basal joints with bristles below (see figure). Occiput 

 slightly swollen above. 



COU.E- 



Eumerus strigutus Fallen, female, a, antenna of female; b, antenna of male. 



Thorax shining green, punctate, in some places more or less brassy. 

 There are two narrow gray vittae on the dorsum abbreviated behind. The 

 fine short pile of the thorax is yellowish in color. Scutellum colored as the 

 thorax, punctate, the margin finely serrated and with longer pile. Pleura 

 aeneous and white pilose. 



Abdomen aeneous, distinctly punctate, with three pairs of lunules or 

 oblique grayish white bands; the gray spaces are a little impressed. Pile 

 of abdomen yellowish or whitish, longest at the anterior corners and at 

 the apex of the fourth segment. Venter with very little green color and 

 with pale hairs. 



