450 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1899. 



closest, posteriorly depi'essed ; petiole longer than thorax, narrowly 

 elongate campanulate, enlarged from about middle, with strong 

 separated punctures, transversely depressed before apex, basal 

 stem rather slender; remainder of abdomen ovate; second dorsal 

 finely and closely punctured; wings subhyaline, the costal margin 

 narrowly and the marginal cell in part fuscous; uervures and 

 stigma blackish. Length 9 mm, 



(^. — Clypeus, except apex, yellow; otherwise colored like 

 female, with the maculation, if anything, less marked; no yellow 

 on scutellum; sculpture stronger, especially evident on second 

 dorsal segment; wings darker ; seventh ventral segment rounded 

 apically; punctures of front well separated, not confluent. 

 Length 9 mm. 



Santarem. One of each sex. That which I have described as 

 the cf will perhaps prove to be a different species ; it is referred 

 here with much doubt. 



Eumenes proxima n. sp. 



?. — Black; clothed with grayish sericeous pile, that on head in 

 front and middle segment silvery ; clypeus at sides, spot l)etween 

 antennse, in emarginatiou of eye, hind orbits narrowly, scape 

 beneath, broadly interrupted line on pronotum anteriorly, posterior 

 margin, dot behind tegulse, short line or spot at tips of femora 

 beneath, line on all tibiae, first joint of tarsi except apically, spot 

 on petiole above near bases, and line at apex of segments 1-5, 

 pale yellow, that on petiole extended a short distance anteriorly 

 along sides; scape beneath fulvous; front with strong, separated, 

 even punctures, scarcely impressed ; ocelli in curved line ; clypeus 

 convex, fully as broad as long, with indistinct scattered punctures, 

 produced medially at aj)ex, the production depressed medially, 

 so as to appear bicarinate, the apex scarcely notched (the clypeus 

 may be said to be indistinctly bidentate at apex) ; flagellum 

 clavate; thorax but little longer than broad; pronotum with 

 strong close punctures, very short medially, finely margined; 

 dorsulum with larger separated punctures, those on scutellum, 

 which is indistinctly impressed, still larger ; middle segment short, 

 almost vertical, broadly depressed posteriorly, with punctures 

 about as strong as on dorsulum, but they are more rounded; petiole 

 narrowly campanulate, distinctly longer than thorax, less gradually 



