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impressed and margined exteriorly with pale testaceous ; pectus pale 

 yellowish ; pleura piceous, tinged with reddish beneath, a large spot 

 beneath the hind-wing and a small one beneath the fore-wing, pale 

 yellowish ; scutellum and postscutellum pale yellowish, the space on 

 each side, blackish ; tegulae and a large spot behind the posterior wing. 

 pale yellowish ; metathorax finely rugose, obliquely depressed behind, 

 black above, with a large obcordate mark on the posterior face, pale 

 yellowish, as well as the sides entirely. Wings whitish hyaline, iride- 

 scent ; nervures and stigma pale fuscous ; areolet minutely quadrate, 

 the outer nervure obsolete. Legs long and slender, yellow ; the poste- 

 rior pair honey-yellow, their coxge with a large blackish spot on both 

 sides, confluent with the base. Abdomen elongate, very slender at 

 base, subclavate, strongly arcuated, honey-yellow ; 1st segment about 

 one-third the length of the abdomen, linear, slightly broader at tip with 

 a slight tubercle on each side near the apical third, basal half pale yel- 

 lowish, the rest honey-yellow, darkest towards the middle ; 2nd seg- 

 ment about same length as the 1st, gradually dilated towards the tip 

 which is broad, the extreme base blackish ; apex broad, truncate and 

 faintly compressed ; ovipositor slightly exserted, yellowish. Length 3 

 lines; expanse of wings 4* lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



Genus EPIMECIS. Brulle. 

 Epimecis ferruginosa, u. sp. 



Bright honey-yellow, abdomen bright ferruginous; wings yellowish-hyaline: 

 antennae brown. 



Female. — Head bright ferruginous, tips of mandibles blackish ; eyes 

 large and very prominent ; antennae slender, two-thirds the length of 

 the body, blackish, the two basal joints ferruginous. Thorax bright 

 honey-yellow, smooth and polished, neck elongate ; mesothorax pointed 

 in front, distinctly trilobed ; scutellum obtusely elevated, yellowish ; 

 metathorax convex, smooth and polished, slightly pubescent, bright 

 honey-yellow. Wings ample, deep yellowish-hyaline, the apex tinged 

 with fuliginous ; nervures pale ferruginous, stigma yellow ; the costal 

 vein for a short distance behind the stigma and the transverse vein 

 dividing the costal cell from the first submarginal cell, blackish. Legs 

 long and rather slender, bright honey -yellow, posterior pair ferrugi- 

 nous, with the extreme tips of their femora, tibiae, and of all the tarsi, 

 brown ; apex of tarsi with a very large pulvilli, which is deeply emar- 

 ginate at tip. Abdomen elongate, more than twice the length of the 

 head and thorax, cylindrical, almost sessile, bright rufo-ferruginous. 

 smooth and polished, slightly pubescent, especially towards the apex ; 



