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scutellum and mesepisternum shining with distinct separate punctures; 

 median impressed lines on scutum foveolate; dorsal aspect of propodeum 

 with large, distinct punctures and posteriorly with irregular raised lines in 

 addition; posterior aspect of propodeum transversely stria to-punctate ; side 

 of propodeum striato-punctate ; second abscissa of radius longer than the 

 third; abdomen shining with a few widely scattered punctures; pygidium 

 flat. Black; mandibles except apices, clypeus, inner orbits to emargination, 

 two spots between antennae, scape beneath, anterior (slightly interrupted 

 medianly) and posterior margins of pronotum, tegulae, small lateral and a 

 large median spot on scutum, spot on scutellum and metanotum, large spot 

 on anterior part of mesepisternum and a small posterior spot, spot on lateral 

 angles of propodeum, apical band on tergites one to six inclusive (slightly 

 narrowed medianly) and spots on sternites two to six inclusive, yellow; legs 

 black, spots on coxae, four anterior legs beyond middle of femora and apical 

 half of hind femora yellow; posterior tibiae and tarsi testaceous; wings hyaline 

 with apices dusky; venation testaceous except in dusky area of wing where 

 it is brownish; clothed with silvery hair which is especially dense on venter 

 of thorax. 



In the paratype the hind tarsi are mostly yellow. 



Type locality. Inverness, Florida. Described from two fe- 

 males and two males collected by Charles Robertson and under 

 his numbers 24949 (type), 24948 (allotype), 24987 and 25009. 



Type. Cat. No. 22731, U. S. N. M. 



Elis propodealis, new species. 



In size and general appearance this species looks very much 

 like E. quenquecincta (Fabricius), but can easily be distinguished 

 from that species by the unsculptured sides of the propodeum, 

 the bipunctate pronotum, etc. 



Female. Length, 20 mm. Clypeus ridged medianly, the surface with large 

 sometimes confluent punctures, anterior margin rounded; front shining with 

 large sometimes confluent punctures; frontal furrow deep and distinct, ex- 

 tending half the distance to the anterior ocellus; postocellar line not quite 

 twice as long as the ocellocular line; vertex shining and with large, separate, 

 distinct punctures; temples with smaller and fewer punctures; dorsal aspect 

 of pronotum and the scutum bipunctate; scutellum with large punctures 

 dorsally but small close ones laterally; dorsal and posterior aspect of pro- 

 podeum subopaque, the dorsal basal middle with a few large, shallow punc- 

 tures, the top of the posterior aspect with one or two transverse rugae; sides 

 of pronotum with fine, close, curved striae; mesepisternum shining, with large, 

 distinct punctures; sides of propodeum shining, without distinct sculpture; 

 abdomen shining; pygidium with uniform striae, the apical margin slightly 

 produced medianly. Black; mandibles (except apices), trophi, apical part 



