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»cf. Smaller, with the abdomen narrower and more tapering; face covered with 

 white pubescence; flagellum entirely rufous beneath, first Joint about half as long as 

 second; mesothorax more sparsely punctured; tegulae clear rufous. Wings slightly 

 dusky at apex; scutellum and postscutellum with the orange rufous pubescence not 

 always obvious, but sometimes so, and the pubescence of the anterior part of the meso- 

 thorax also dark orange rufous; all the tarsi rufous, middle tibia with a rufous spot at 

 end; basal Joint of bind tarsus with long, conspicuously plumose, fulvous pubescence, 

 which also intrudes somewhat on to the tibia; the outer side of the basal Joint is minutely 

 speckled with black. Abdomen quite strongly punctured, including the first segment; 

 continuous pale hair-bands on segments 2 — 6. 



»San Rafael, Vera Cruz, i 9 on plant No. 84, July 3.; 7 cf on plant No. 3i 

 (Cardia, probably C. ferruginea) last of June. Collected by Prof. C. H. T. Town- 

 send, 1896, 



»Allied to E. solani, and still more to E. tarsata Smith from Santarem.« 



Von Exomalopsis penelope verdanke ich dem Autor i c/", das sicher in die 

 nächste Nähe von pulchella gehört. Ferner liegen mir zahlreiche Exemplare im Mus. 

 Wien vor von Brasilien und Mexico (Orizaba, 5. Mai 1871, Bilimek), im Mus. Berlin 

 von Bogota, in Coli. Saussure 3 $ und 4 cT von Mexico (Orizaba, Tampico, Huastec). 



Man vergleiche auch rufitarsis Sm.! 



1 7. Exomalopsis rußtarsis Sm. 



187g. Exomalopsis rufitarsis Smith, 9, Descr. New Spec. Hymen., pag. 126, Nr. 5. 



»9. Length 3 lines. Black and shining, the scopa on the posterior legs fulvous; 

 the labrum and tips of the mandibles ferruginous; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The 

 wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma fusco- ferruginous; the tarsi and posterior 

 tibiae ferruginous; the scopa fulvous, with a slight mixture of fuscous above. Ab- 

 domen smooth, shining, and impunctate; the base with a little pale pubescence, also 

 at the basal margins of the following segments; the apex with fulvous pubescence 

 (=6^2 Mm. lang). 



»Jamaica. « 



Man vergleiche penelope Cockll.! 



18. Exomalopsis similis Cress. 



1865. Exomalopsis similis Cresson, 9, Proc. Entom Soc. Philadelphia, IV, pag. 192. 

 1869. Exomalopsis similis Cresson, d", Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, II, pag. 298. 



»9. Piceous, clothed with pale ochraceous pubescence; sides of the face, pleura, 

 and markings of abdomen similar to E. pulchella, whitish; wings hyaline, tinged with 

 pale fuscous at tips; scopa of bind legs entirely pale ochraceous. 



» 9 . Piceous, more or less tinged with brownish ; head and thorax as in E. pulchella, 

 but more distinctly punctured, not so shining, and the pubescence less glittering; on 

 the scutellum and postscutellum the pubescence in dense and rather long. Wings 

 hyaline, the tips faintly tinged with pale fuscous; nervures fuscous, the stigma testaceous. 

 Legs brown, paler at base, the pubescence pale glittering ochraceous; the posterior pair 

 with the scopa long, dense and entirely silky ochraceous. Abdomen strongly tinged 

 with brownish, broadly ovate, subdepressed, feebly punctured, shining, apical mar- 

 gins of the segments pale brownish; markings similar to those of E. pulchella, but 

 less distinct and not so glittering; the apical segment is clothed with pale ochraceous 



