444 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1899- 



Eumenes callimorplia Sauss. 



Mararu, April ; Sautareni. Seven specimens, all females. 

 Eumenes picturata n. sp. 



?. — Yellow and black; head yellow, with the front and face, 

 except a triangular spot between insertion of antennae, and occi- 

 put black; clypeus sometimes with an elongate black mark; scape- 

 above and joints 2-8 of flagellum above black, theflagellum other- 

 wise fulvous ; thorax yellow, a dot on each side of pronotum, the 

 dorsulum except two lines, spot on scutellum, black ; teguloe 

 brownish medially ; legs entirely yellow; petiole yellow, except the 

 black base, and a brown blotch above, yellow; remaining seg- 

 ments black, with apical margins broadly yellow, as well as side& 

 of second dorsal, the second ventral brownish; front with strong, 

 separated punctures ; ocelli in curved line ; clypeus convex, micro- 

 scopically punctured, almost as broad as long, terminating in two- 

 large teeth, not carinated; pronotum with shallow punctures, very 

 finely margined ; dorsulum with stronger, deeper punctures, which 

 are closest at apex; scutellum strongly punctured, deeply im- 

 pressed; middle segment concave posteriorly, with rather large 

 shallow, separated punctures, closest toward base; petiole a little 

 shorter than thorax rather gradually enlarged from a point just 

 before its middle, elongate campanulate, impunctate, transversely 

 depressed before apex; remainder of abdomen fusiform, impunc- 

 tate, with sericeous pile ; wings subhyaline, yellowish along costal 

 margin, the nervures and stigma reddish brown. Length 

 14-15 ]nm. 



c?. — Coloration like that of 9, with second ventral segment 

 yellow; clypeus narrow, triangularly notched at apex; medial 

 femora not widened basally ; petiole fully as long as thorax ; seventh 

 ventral segment deeply and narrowly sulcate down middle, the sides 

 of the furrow raised so that two parallel carin^e are present. 

 Length 14 mm. 



Pedra Branca and Corumbn, in April. Two ?, one (S' specimens. 

 Eumenes consobrina Sauss. 



Corumba, March, April ; Rio de Janeiro, November, Fourteen 

 specimens. In the cJ', the seventh ventral is sulcate down middle. 

 Eumenes parvula Sauss. 



Corumba, April, May; Chapada, January, April, December; 

 Rio de Janeiro, November. Fourteen specimens. 



