202 H. Friese. 



thorax posteriorly clothed with sooty-black pubescence; all the femora ferruginous 

 beneath, posterior tibiae and i. Joint of the tarsi ferruginous and clothed exteriorly with 

 dense pale fulvous pubescence; wings fusco-hyaline. Abdomen conical, ferruginous, 

 the posterior margins of the segments usually more or less fuscous; palest beneath and 

 with the apical margins of the segments fringed with bright fulvous pubescence. Length 

 g — lo^a lii^ss (= 19 — 22 mm.). 



Epicharis conica ist an dem einfarbig rothen Abdomen und rothgelben Hinter- 

 beinen zu erkennen. 



Ich erhielt i $ von Para (N.-Brasilia). 



18. Epicharis {onata Sm. 



1854. Epicharis Sonata Smith, cT, Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., II, pag. 869, n. 6. 



»o^. Head and thorax black, the scape in front, face below the Insertion of the 

 antennae white, labrum white; a triangulär black spot on each side of the clypeus; the 

 pubescence on the cheeks white; that on the vertex and that on the disk of the thorax 

 of a griseo-fuscous mixture, at the sides of the metathorax it is whitish, that on the 

 breast black; the posterior margin of the scutellum deeply emarginate; the wings fusco- 

 hyaline; the legs have a fuscous pubescence beneath, the intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi fringed behind with long pale yellow pubescence, the apical joints of 

 the tarsi pale testaceous; the claws and also the calcaria ferruginous, thelatter serrated 

 on their inner margins. Abdomen yellow, apical margins of the segments have a narrow 

 fusco-ferruginous band. Long. 9 lines (= 19 mm.). 



»Brasil.« 



19. Epicharis maculata Sm. 



1874. Epicharis maculata Smith, $, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), XIII, pag. 320, n. g. 

 1874. Epicharis albofasciata Smith, cT, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), XIII, pag. 32i, 



n. i3. 

 1884. Epicharoides bipunctatus Radoszkowski, $, Horae soc. entom. Ross., XVIII, 



pag. 20, T. I, Fig. 3. 

 189g. Epicharis maculata var. nigroclypeata Friese, d^, Termesz. Füz., XXIII, pag. 40. 

 i8gg. Epicharis maculata var. grandior Friese, 9, Termesz. Füz., XXIII, pag. 40. 



»9. Black; labrum, a spot at the anterior lateral angles of the clypeus, a line at 

 the inner orbits of the eves terminating opposite the Insertion of the antennae and a 

 minute spot at the base of the mandibles yellow; labrum with a narrow rufous margin 

 and fringed with hairs of the same colour. Thorax: a minute spot on each side of the 

 coUar, 2 on the tegulae, one at the extreme base of the wing and 2 on the scutellum 

 yellow; a yellow spot at the base of the posterior tibiae above, posterior tibiae and tarsi 

 ferruginous and densely clothed with fulvous pubescence; wings subhyaline, faintly 

 clouded at their apex, nervures fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen: ihe basal segment rufo- 

 fuscous, 3 foUowing yellow, 2. — 3. segments have on their apical margins a broad black 

 fascia, which is widest in the middle, narrowing abruptly towards the lateral margins, 

 to which they do not extend, the apical segments more or less ferruginous. Long. 

 7 lines (= 15 mm.). 



»Mexico (Oajaca). 



»cf. Black; the labrum an interrupted transverse line on the clypeus at its apical 

 margin, its sides and a line on the mandibles vellow, scape of the antennae in front 



