AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 377 



Aiitennse black, brownish beueatli. Head closely and distinctly punctured; 

 the green largely mixed with blue, the inner orbits purple. The front and vertex 

 and the upper part of the face are thickly covered with long pale fulvous hair. 

 The yellow apex of the clypeus and the labrum are only sparsely punctured. 

 The green of the thorax is largely mixed with blue and brassy tints, and is 

 closely, uniformly and distinctly punctured ; the hair on it is long, moderately 

 thick and pale fulvous in color; the area on tlie median segment is irregularly 

 longitudinally striated. Legs fulvous-yellow; the upper part of tho coxse, tro- 

 chanters and femora largely marked with metallic green color; on the hinder 

 femora this color extends on to the apical two-thirds. The hinder femora are 

 greatly swollen, and are irregularly oval in shape; the base on the lower side is 

 straight and oblique, not rounded. The hinder tibise become gradually thickened 

 to near the apex, which is thicker than the base ; the metatarsus is greatly thick- 

 ened throughout, and is longer than the other joints united. The middle seg- 

 ments of the abdomen are broadly depressed at the base; all the segments are 

 smooth and narrowly banded with lead-colored bauds at the apex ; the pygidium 

 is dark fulvous, widest in the middle, and obliquely narrowed from there to the 

 base and apex ; the basal portion is longer and somewhat narrower than the 

 apical; the last segment is depressed round the edges and keeled broadly down 

 the middle on the ventral surface. 



Hah. — Santa Fe district, New Mexico. 



Epeoliis fiilTO-i>ilo»iiis sp. nov. 



Black; the scutellum and base of the antennfe ferruginous, the apical half of 

 the 2nd and the whole of the following segments covered with a bright fulvous 

 pile; the wings highly iridescent, infuscated ; the stigma fulvous, the nervures 

 black, % . Length 8 mm. 



Antennae black; the basal three joints entirely bright rufous; the 4th to 8th 

 dark rufous beneath. Head closely and distinctly punctured ; the front and face 

 thickly covered with fulvous pubescence; the clypeus more sparsely with paler 

 and shorter pubescence. There is a rufous mark on the sides of the labrum 

 above; the mandibles are rufous, except at the base and apex. Pro- and meso- 

 thorax closely rugosely punctured ; the ))ronotum is thickly covered with ful- 

 vous pubescence, as are also the sides and apex of the mesonotum and probably 

 also part of the central region. Scutellum coarsely, irregularly reticulated ; the 

 centre at the apex bilobate; the lateral teeth long. The base of the median seg- 

 ment has a band of fulvous jiubescence; its sculpture is fine and close. Meso- 

 pleuse closely rugosely reticulated ; the metapleurse aciculated. Legs black ; the 

 knees, the 4 front tibia; and all the tarsi testaceous; the hinder are testaceous, 

 blacki.sh behind. The 2nd and 3rd cubital cellules at the top are almost equal 

 ill length, as they are also at the bottom ; the 1st recurrent nervure is received at 

 the base of the apical third, the 2nd at the base of the ajjical 4th of the cellule. 

 The basal half of the abdomen is black; the apical entirely fulvous through the 

 thick covering of bright fulvous pubescence ; the last ventral segment is broadly 

 rounded and is produced distinctly beyond the dorsal, which has its apex broadly 

 rounded. 



Hab.— West Coast of Mexico (G. F. Mathew). 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVIII. (48) OCTOBER, 1902. 



