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rather longer than the body, black, valves honey-yellow, whitish at tip. 

 Length 8 lines; expanse of wings 13 lines. 



Male. — Much smaller and slenderer than the female; the colors 

 mu-h brighter ; the antennae as long as the body, with the yellow an- 

 nulus not so broad; the lateral lobes of the mesothorax more broadly 

 margined with yellow ; the abdomen elongate, cylindric, smooth and 

 polished, more distinctly marked than in the 9 i the three first segments 

 being bright yellow with a broad brownish band at base, remaining 

 segments entirely rufo-fulvous. Length 5-} lines; expanse of wings 8£ 

 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach 9 ; Ent. Soc. Philad. % . Two speci- 

 mens. 



Epirhyssa alternata, n. sp. 



Bright yellow; line on vertex, antennae, except a narrow yellow annulus, 

 mesothorax. except two yellow stripes, sutures of thorax, and the basal margins 

 of the abdominal segments, brown; wings yellowish-hyaline; abdomen sub- 

 clavate. 



Male.. — Bright yellow, polished, slightly pubescent; tips of mandibles 

 black; a band across the vertex, covering the ocelli and the upper mar- 

 gin of the occiput, brownish. Thorax : mesothorax gibbous, deeply and 

 transversely striated, the middle lobe rather strongly produced in front, 

 brown, margined with yellow ; lateral lobes brown, broadly margined 

 with yellow; sutures between the pectus, pleura and metathorax, and 

 at the base and tip of the latter, blackish-brown. Wings yellowish- 

 hyaline, with a beautiful golden gloss, the apex slightly clouded ; ner- 

 vures and stigma pale yellowish. Legs bright yellow, the posterior 

 trochanters tinged with ferruginous; all the tarsi towards the tips black- 

 ish. Abdomen about twice as long as the thorax, slightly thickened 

 towards the apex, which is incurved; dorsal surface convex, smooth and 

 polished, yellow, with the base of all the segments more or less broadly 

 brown, becoming subobsolete and paler towards the apex. Length 5 

 lines ; expanse of wings 8 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Resembles the % of E. speciosa, but the abdomen is shorter, subela- 

 vate, and altogether differently colored. 



Genus LAMPRONOTA. Haliday. 

 Lampronota rufithorax. n. sp. 



Black; face, orbits, legs and large spot on pleura, white; most of thorax, ru- 

 fous; wings hyaline, areolet wanting: abdomen tinged with fuscous, sessile, 

 cylindrical. 



Male. — Head transverse, polished ; the face, except a spot beneath 

 the antennae, orbits, clypeus, mandibles, except tips, and the palpi. 



