jBT. 5 GENERIC REVISION OF THE FOSSORIAL WASPS — PARKER 19 



EDITHA FUSCIFENNIS (Lepeletier) 



Monedula fuscipenrm Lespexettier, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., vol. 3, 1845. p. 286. — 

 Handliesch. Sitz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., vol. 99, 1890. p. 

 128,— Daixa Torre, Cat. Hym., vol. 8, 1897, p. 497. 



I have before me two males that were received by the United States 

 National Museum in an exchange and were determined by Kohl as 

 males of this species. 



Handlirsch, in his discussion of this species, writes that he had 

 only females before him and that Lepeletier and Dahlbom likewise 

 examined only females. A comparison of these two males with 

 Handlirsch's description of the species convinces me that Kohl's 

 determination is correct. In this species the temples and the divivsion 

 of the clypeus into dorsal and ventral areas are by no means so 

 jirominent as in the case of magniflca. The middle femur at the 

 apical end below bears the characteristic groove and tooth. The 

 second sternite is plain and the sixth bears a transverse row of spine 

 similar to those on the male of adonis. Segments 6-12 of the flagella 

 below are somewhat excavated or modified ; 6 bears an evident spine 

 below; 8 and 9 each bears a smaller spine; and 9, 10, and 11 each at 

 the apical end below bears on the anterior border a number of spine- 

 like hairs. The spine on the eighth sternite of the male is distinctly 

 spear-shaped. The wings are heavily and uniformly infumated. 

 Of the two specimens one is without a locality label and the other 

 bears the label " Brasilia, Esperito Santo." 



Handlirsch reports the species from Ipanema and San Paola, 

 Brazil. 



^ EDITHA PULCHEERIMA, new species 



T^/pe (female). — Black: labrum; clypeus, except fine line at base; 

 base of mandibles ; lower part of f rons ; broad anterior orbits ; scape 

 below; posterior orbits, narrowed above; large lateral spot on pro- 

 thorax; broad fascia on pronotum, including the tubercles; pair of 

 discal lines on scutum ; spot on tegula ; scutellum ; metanotum ; broad 

 fascia on dorsum of propodeum narrowly interrupted on median line ; 

 lateral angles of propodeum broadly; small spot on metapleura; broad 

 vertical line and small spot on mesopleura ; first tergite, except a pair 

 of longitudinal elliptical discal marks and a median anterior notch 

 between them; broad fasciae on tergites 2-5 bisinuate on anterior 

 margin, those on 2 and 3 each narrowed at the midline by a V-shaped 

 notch; pair of triangular spots on sixth tergite; lateral spots on 

 :^ternites 2-4; spot on anterior coxa; femora in part; tibiae, except 

 posterior surfaces ; anterior border of anterior tarsus ; anterior border 

 of middle tarsus to a less degree ; apical segment of posterior tarsus 

 in part; yello\D. 



Length about 27 mm. 



