458 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1899. 



except base, outer margin of tegulse broadly, middle segment 

 except medially, four anterior femora except above, the hind pair 

 at tip, tibise, tarsi, sides of petiole, second segment, except medially 

 on basal two-thirds, rufous; remaining segments brownish or 

 reddish brown apically; head and thorax above with dense short 

 brownish hairs; sides of thorax with pale pile ; spot between 

 insertion of antennse and hind orbits above yellowish; front with 

 deep separated punctures, depressed on each side before the eye- 

 emargiuation ; clypeus elongate, about as long as scape and pedi- 

 cel, not carinate, its fore margin broadly but not deeply notched, 

 or bilobate; flagellum rather long, subclavate; pronotum with 

 deep, rather close punctures, finely margined, obtuse laterally; 

 dorsulum a little less deeply punctured, with an impressed line 

 anteriorly in middle; scutellum, postscutellum and middle segment 

 Avith larger, more separated punctures, the former not impressed, 

 the middle segment deeply, though not broadly, concave poste- 

 riorly, petiole linear, much longer than head and thorax, strongly 

 punctured and longitudinally impressed above, gradually, and but 

 little, widened from very near base, the sides almost parallel, trans- 

 versely depressed before apex, basal stem short; remainder of 

 abdomen compressed, especially the second segment, which has 

 brownish pile and is deeply and compactly punctured above, be- 

 neath depressed a little on each side and longitudinally raised 

 doAvn middle; wings fusco-hyaline; nervures and stigma black. 

 Length 14-15 mm. 



Pedra Branca and Corumba, April. Two specimens. 

 Eumenes fulvomaculata n- sp. 



$. — Black; clji^eus, spot between insertion of antenme, hind 

 orbits, pronotum except a dot on each side, a triangular spot, 

 varying in size, on each side of dorsulum close to pronotum, scutel- 

 lum except posteriorly, postscutellum, middle segment except 

 medially and sides, mesopleurte above, a stripe on its lower moiety, 

 sides and apical margin of petiole, large spot on each side of 

 second dorsal from which a narrow line of the same color extends 

 around the sides and apical margin of the segment, and second 

 ventral except basally, pale yellow; tips of mandibles, flagellum 

 beneath, scape beneath at base, tips of femora, the anteriors be- 

 neath, tibiie, tarsi, except posteriors which are dark, rufous or 



