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is of doubtful identity and probably represents an undescribed 

 species, as does the one from California. The specimens from 

 Colorado and Montana become the types of grisea. It will, 

 therefore, be seen that Fox did not know what I consider the 

 true scrupea. It is unlikely that the species occurs in the Rocky 

 Mountain States. 



Habitat: Indiana (type locality-). Virginia: Falls Church, Juno 19, July 7, 



13, 14, 16, 21, 28, 31, August 2, 7, 11, 30, 31, September 19, 25 specimens; 

 Great Falls, July 13 and 31, 3 specimens; Glencarlyn, July 26, 3 specimens, 

 all collected by Mr. Nathan Banks. 



Ephuta pauxilla n. sp. 



(f. Coal-black, with meagre white pubescence; apex of petiole and of the 

 second segment with a band of appressed white pubescence; wings medially 

 nearh- In-aline, infumcd around the edges. Length S mm., paratype 6 to 10 

 mm. 



Head coarsely rugoso-punctate, less coarselj- on the front, which is without 

 a median' channel at base of the antennae; transverse diameter of the posterior 

 ocelli .13 mm., of the anterior ocellus .16 mm., distance of the former from each 

 other .26 mm., from the eyes .43 mm., from the anterior ocellus .13 mm.; from 

 between the antennae two high, thin carinae flare in a somew'^.at sinuous cur\'e, 

 abruptl}^ diminishing in height, to the sides of the margin of the cljq^eus, set- 

 ting off a spatulate basin with striolate bottom. 



The humeral angles are weak, scarcely carinate, pronotum and mesonotum 

 coarsely punctured, the latter with flattened irregular interstices, side pieces 

 of the former punctate onlj'- above the almost longitudinal median carina; 

 dorsum sparsely pubescent; tegulae large, verj^ rugose, thick, weakty ridged, 

 but the ridge lost in the rugose pimctures; scutellum convex but hardh' gib- 

 bous, coarsely punctured; mesopleura with coarse punctures obscured bj^ 

 vestiturc; dorsal surface of the propodeum with coarse reticulate areas, be- 

 coming smaller laterally, the basal median one largest, elongate, irregular, the 

 posterior surface not or but shghth" roughened, not reticulate, separated from 

 the dorsal by a prominent, arched, crenulate, ridge. 



Veins piceous, very faint in the hind wings; Sc-fR-fM chitinized 1)asally 

 in the latter. 



Petiole rugose; rather cylindrical, the keel with a long, anterior, reciu-\-ed, 

 blunt hook, and two basal teeth; second segment evenly, coarsely punctured; 

 apical dorsal segments sparselj' punctulate, more closely l:)ut not coarsely on the 

 last, eacli with a keel; last ventral segment mostly 1)ufT, weakly pimctured. 



Type Material. — Holotj'pe: Falls Church, Virginia, collected 

 by Mr. Nathan Banks from hone}' dew on a tulip tree, August 8. 

 Cornell University Xo. 105.1; eighteen paratopotypes, Jul>- 12, 



14, 21, 28, August 2, 4, 9, 23, 31 and September 17. A specimen 

 from Fedor, Lee County, Texas, June 21, 1909, seems identical. 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



