76 H. Friese. 



7. Caupolicana funebris Sm. 



1879. Caupolicana funebris Smith, 9, Descr. New Spec. Hymen., pag. 7, n. 2. 



»9. Length 8^/2 lines. Black; the pubescence black, except that on the face, which 

 is white. The pubescence on the thorax above is dense and short, that on the meta- 

 thorax is long and sooty black; wings hyaline at the base, and clouded from the mar- 

 ginal cell to the apex; the tarsi have fulvous pubescence beneath. Abdomen slightly 

 shining, the apical margins of the segments bordered with sooty black pubescence; the 

 anal fimbria black; the apical segment with a naked, shining, triangulär, pale fulvous 

 space in the middle; at the extreme lateral margins of the third and fourth segments are 

 tufts of white pubescence. (Long. 18 mm.) 



»Hab. Chili.« 



8. Caupolicana lugiibris Sm. 



1879. Caupolicana lugubris Smith, g, Descr. New Spec. Hymen., pag. 8, n. 3. 



» 5. Length 7V2 — 8 lines. Coal-black; the head and the thorax above, as far as the 

 tegulae, densely clothed with white pubescence, that on the thorax faintly ochraceous; 

 the white pubescence occasionally extends a little beyond the tegulae; the second, third, 

 and fourth segments of the abdomen with white pubescent fasciae on their apical mar- 

 gins; beneath, the pubescence is entirely black; wings hvaline, with a slight fuscous 

 cloud beyond the third submarginal cell; the anterior and intermediate femora fringed 

 beneath with griseous pubescence, that on the posterior femora sooty black. (Long. 

 16 — 17 mm.) 



»Hab, Uruguay.« 



9. Caupolicana pubescens Sm. 



1879. Caupolicana pubescens Smith, cf, Descr. New Spec. Hymen., pag. 7, n. i. 



»cf. Length 8 lines. Black, and densely clothed with fulvous pubescence, that 

 on the thorax above riebest in colour; beneath with long dense pubescence; the fringe 

 on the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen pale fulvous; on the tarsi beneath 

 it is short and bright fulvo-ferruginous; wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous. (Long. 

 17 mm.). 



»Hab. Chili. 



»The pubescence of this species would be brighter in recent examples; the two in 

 the Collection are both old and faded from exposure, the wings being ragged at the 

 edges.« 



111. Diphaglossa Spin. 



1851. Diphaglossa Spinola, Gay: Hist. fis. Chile ZooL, VI, pag. 167. 



»Mandibulae latere interno tridentatae; lingua bipartita; filamentis linearibus, 

 omnino fimbriatis, tibiae unispinosae (?).« (Tibien wie gewöhnlich bespornt!) 



Fühler beim 5 12-, beim c/' i3 gliederig, das erste Glied grösser als alle, cylindrisch 

 oder ein wenig konisch, bis zur Höhe der Stirn reichend, das zweite sehr kurz und »sub- 

 globulus«; das dritte zweimal länger als das vorhergehende und deutlich konisch; die 

 übrigen cylindrisch, an den Gelenken nicht eingeschnürt, an Länge abnehmend, das 



