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ventral end of tlie ocellar basin ; the ocellar furrow indicated, the inter- 

 ocellar furrow distinct ; the third segment of the antennre distinctly 

 longer than the fourth; the saw-guides parallel above and below, and 

 rounded at apex ; the body black, with the clypeus, labrum, tegula? and 

 collar narrowly white ; the legs more or less infuscated. Length, 6 mm. 

 Habitat. — Ithaca, N. Y. 



Empria cariosa, n. sp. — Female. Clypeus with a median carina, 

 deeply, narrowly, angularly emarginate to near the middle of the clypeus ; 

 the supraclypeal area rather broad and convexly elevated ; the clypeal 

 lobes roundly pointed and the median tooth small but distinct; the ocellar 

 and interocellar furrows distinct ; a depressed area in front of the median 

 ocellus; the third segment of the antennae distinctly longer than the 

 fourth ; the saw-guides with the upper and lower margins parallel and 

 broadly, truncately rounded at apex ; body black, with the clypeus, 

 labrum, collar, tegular, front and middle legs beyond the apices of the 

 coxae, the base of their femora more or less infuscated, the hind 

 trochanters, tibiae and tarsi, sometimes infuscated, white. Length, 7 mm. 



Habitat. — Slatterville-Caroline, N. Y. 



Empria cauduca^ n. sp. Clypeus with a median carina, truncate at 

 apex ; the antennal furrows adjacent to the antenaal foveie well marked ; 

 the ocellar furrow linear, distinct; the interocellar furrow broad and deep; 

 the third segment of the antennae distinctly longer than the fourth; the 

 saw-guides convex above aud below, broadly converging to a blunt point 

 just above the middle of the apex ; the body black, with the front and 

 middle legs below the middle of the femora and the base of the hind 

 tibije ringed with white. Length, 7 mm. 



Habitat. — Ithaca, N. Y. 



Empria castigata, n. sp. — Female. Clypeus with a median car'na, 

 the median tooth almost as long as the lateral lobes, all angular, the 

 clypeus appearing tridentate ; the interocellar furrow only extending to the 

 median ocellus, forming only the stem of a Y ; the median fovea only a 

 rounded scar ; ocellar and interocellar furrows linear, deep ; the third 

 and fourth segment of the antennae subequal ; the saw-guides convex 

 above and below, and slightly, obliquely rounded at apex, the lower 

 angle more rounded than the upper ; the body black, with the collar, 

 tegulaf, front and middle femora beneath at apex, front tibi?e, middle 

 tibice beneath, and a ring at the base of the hind tibiae, white. Length, 

 6 mm. 



