J. CHESTER BRADLEY. 147 



(Brown's Mill Junction, June 25, 1905, E. Daecke ; Jaraesburg) ; 

 Georgia (Tifton) ; Florida (Crescent City). 



Tijpe. — In tlie author's collection. Paratvpes in the U. S. N. M. 



HYPTIA Illiger. 

 Evania Fabriciiis, et al. 

 1807. Hyptia Illiger, Rossi, Fauna Etrusca, ii, p. 82. 

 1841. Hyptiam Shuckard, Entom., i, p. 120. 

 1889. Evania Scliletterer, Ann. d. k. k. nalli. Hofni., Wien, iv, p. 118. 



Type. — Evania petlolata Fabricius. 



The color is usually black, but may be more or le.ss red or yellow ; 

 the anterior and often middle legs are sometimes pale or brown, but 

 the color is variable within the species. Clothed with a white or 

 yellowish sparse pubescence, sometimes becoming so thick on the 

 metaventer and coxse as to conceal the punctation. The head 

 seen from above is transverse to transverse-quadrate, the anterior 

 margin between the eyes appearing from such a view more or less 

 convex, sometimes with a mesal emargination in which are placed 

 the antennae (Fig. 12). In profile the head varies from narrow to 

 broad, usually widest at or below the antennae, either flat or more 

 or less pointed above the eyes; the latter are somewhat oblique, and 

 the malar space is generally about one-half as long as the eyes ; the 

 mandibles are short, and have a blunt tooth within ; the clvpeus is 

 pointed in the middle, sometimes set off laterally by a short indis- 

 tinct groove; from the upper margin of the base of the mandibles a 

 carina is usually present running to the base of the eye, and then 

 upward parallel to and slightly separated from the inner margin of 

 the eye, to varying height, separating the face from the cheeks; the 

 clypeus and face are usually somewhat prominent or gibbous; the 

 forehead is fiat or convex, and the anteniite are not inserted in a 

 basin, nor are there any carinee between or around them ; thev are 

 13-jointed and are either filiform, gradually and evenly thickened 

 (Fig. 57), or short and strongly thickened beyond the base of the 

 fllageilum (Fig. 58); the.se characters and the proportions of the 

 scape to joints three and four together, and of the peilicel to joint 

 three, I have found of specific value, although these distinctions are 

 doubtless to a certain extent only sexual. The labium (Figs. 37 

 and 38) consists of a large, highly chitinized, broad, pear-shaped 

 piece, beneath which the ligula is concealed and the palpi originate; 

 the labial palpi are o-jointed, the terminal joint broadened, but not 



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