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ochraceous pubescent stripe on the two basal segments and a spot on 

 each side near apex of second segment. 



24. .H. vera 9- — Length 8 mm. — Head transversely subquadrate, broader 

 than thorax, posterior angles rounded, carinate, the carina extending beneath 

 on cheeks nearly to base of mandibles; the eyes round, very convex, polished ; 

 thorax nigosely punctured above, short, fiddle-shaped, slightly broader in front, 

 anterior angles acute, lateral middle rather deeply constricted, the lateral margin 

 with two teeth or tubercles in front of the constriction ; nietathorax obliquely 

 declivous behind, the lateral margins acutely dentate; flanks of thorax broadly 

 excavated about the middle, smooth and polished ; abdomen ovate, first segment 

 broad at apex, sessile with base of second and conforming in outline therewith; 

 the pygidium smooth and shining; first segment beneath unarmed, the second 

 sparsely punctured. 



Velvety black above; aiitennse, mandibles, collar and nietathorax above, the 

 thorax at sides and beneath, legs and first segment of abdomen, ferruginous; 

 head above and between eyes with dense pale golden pubescence: a silvery stripe 

 on each side of thorax, extending from middle of mesothorax to middle of nieta- 

 thorax ; thorax beneath and legs with sparse pale pubescence; calcaria white; 

 the three basal segments of abdomen at apex above, triangularly dilated on 

 apical middle of second, and the terminal segment above, clothed with pale 

 golden pubescence; ventral segments fringed with pale pubescence. 



Chapada. (April). One specimen. A very pretty little species, 

 with its large bright golden head, silvery stripe on each side of 

 thorax, pale golden band on apices of first and second abdominal 

 segments, and the ferruginous anteimte and legs. 



25. M. <^ephalotes Swed. (Klug, Nova Acta Cses. Xat. Cur. x, p. 322, pi. 

 xxiii, fig. II). — 9- — Length 17 mm. —Head very large, depressed, quadrate, pro- 

 longed behind the eyes; cheeks with a large acute tooth beneath ; thorax some- 

 what fiddle-shaped, being broadest at anterior tubercles which are pi-ominent, 

 slightly narrowed anteriorly and rapidly so posteriorly to the metathoracic spira- 

 cles ; legs robust, spines on tibiae stout; abdomen ovate, first segment depressed, 

 conforming in outline with base of the second segment, being only slightly con- 

 stricted at apex. 



Head black, cheeks more or less, and scape with pale pubescence; thorax black 

 with two broad, pale golden pubescent stripes extending anteriorly from apex of 

 nietathorax almost to posterior margin of prothorax ; flanks densely pale golden 

 pubescent; legs black with pale hair, calcaria black or fuscous; abdomen black, 

 the first segment, sides of and narrow apical margin of second and remaining seg- 

 ments, except black central stripe, pale golden pubescent; on middle of second 

 segment above a large, ronnded. bright orange-golden or cupreous pubescent spot. 



Brazil (no definite locality). Two specimens. 



26. fl. speeularis Gerst. (Archiv. f. Naturg. xl, p. 47).— 9.— Length 12 

 mm. — Densely punctured; head large, quadrate when viewed in front, much 

 broader than thorax, slightly narrowed posteriorly, very broad between the 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVIII. (4) JANUARY, 1902. 



