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segments about twice as long as broad, somewhat flattened on the disk, 

 deeply depressed on each side at base, leaving the middle of the base 

 prominent, so as to form a broad rounded obtuse tubercle, at the apical 

 fourth of each segment there is another lateral transverse depression ; 

 second segment very deeply impressed on each side at base; the three 

 apical segments have a dusky streak down their middle ; ovipositor 

 nearly half the length of the abdomen, rufous, very acute, slightly 

 thickened about the middle and finely grooved, valves black and pu- 

 bescent. Length 7} — 10} lines ; expanse of wings 13} — 10 lines. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Three $ specimens. 



Epimecis fascipennis, n. sp. 



Honey-yellow; head and antennae blackish; wings pale yellowish, with a 

 transverse band across the middle and the apical fourth, fuscous. 



Female. — Honey-yellow, apex of abdomen paler, shining, slightly 

 pubescent ; head blackish, face obscure rufous ; antennae piceous (broken 

 off beyond the 4th joint). Mesothorax dull honey-yellow, not so much 

 pointed in front and not so distinctly trilobed as in 0. ferruginosa. 

 Wings ample, pale yellowish-hyaline, with a fuscous band, commencing 

 narrowly at the base of stigma and gradually dilating to the posterior 

 margin of the wing, covering nearly the basal half of the first submar- 

 ginal cell, the apical fourth also fuscous ; nervures and stigma pale yel- 

 lowish, the costal vein for a short distance behind the stigma, the ner- 

 vure dividing the costal cell from the first submargiual cell, and the 

 cubital nervure at the base of the latter, blackish. Legs honey-yellow, 

 the posterior tibiae, their tarsi and tips of the other tarsi, brownish; 

 pulvilli as in ferruginosa. Abdomen sculptured as in ferruginosa, with 

 the incisures and sides of the segments more deeply depressed; ovipo- 

 sitor about one-third the length of the abdomen, rufous, valves black 

 and pubescent. Length 5 lines; expanse of wings 9 lines. 

 Collpction. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Epimecis fuscipennis, n. sp. 



Rufous ; head, antennae and legs, except base of femora and the coxae, black ; 

 wings ample, fuscous. 



Male. — Sculptured as in the preceding species ; rufous, polished ; 

 head black, palpi rufous; antennae nearly as long as the body, slender, 

 black, piceous towards the tips. Legs rufous, the four anterior femora 

 except base, the posterior femora entirely, all the tibiae, and the four 

 posterior tarsi, more or less blackish. Wings ample, fuscous, with a 

 bronze reflection ; nervures and stigma ferruginous. Abdomen elon- 

 gate, subcylindric, rather more deeply sculptured than in the preceding 

 species; entirely rufous. Length 5 lines; expanse of wings 9 lines. 

 Collect ion. — Dr. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



