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the second, third, and fifth joints about equal, the fourth being only 

 half the length of the third. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C, and Jacksonville, Fla. 



Tyi^es in Coll. Ashmead. 



Distinct from E. rufiijes Bay in its larger size, darker wings and the 

 6- dentate mandibles. 



Epyris grandis Ashm. 



Goniozua grandis Ashm. Ent. Am. iii, p. 76; Cress. Syu. Hym., p. 247. 



$ . Length 6.25'"". Polished black, with a few ftiint scattered ijuuc- 

 tures. .Head one-fourth longer than wide, carinated between the bases 

 of antennse. Mandibles rufous, piceous at base. Palpi pale. An- 

 tennne 13-jointed, long, filiform, brown, tapering at tips and extending 

 to the apex of the metathorax; the scape is only twice as long as thick 

 at tip; the i)edicel a little shorter than the first flagellar joint, not 

 longer than thick ; the first flagellar joint slightly longer than thick and 

 about one-fourth shorter than the second; the remaining joints longer, 

 about e(iual in length but becoming slenderer towards the apex. Pro«- 

 thorax as long as the head, trapezoidal; mesonotum with two abbre- 

 viated furrows in $ , entire in 9 ; scutellum with a furrow across the 

 base; metathorax quadrate, with numerous faint raised lines at base; 

 mesopleura smooth with a round fovea just beneath the tegul?e, and 

 divided into two parts by a longitudinal furrow which extends from 

 tegulie to middle coxre. Wings hyaline, the venation brown, the trans- 

 verse median nervure arcuate outwardly with a spurious vein directed 

 towards the disk of the wing. 



HabitAt. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Types $ and 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



The spurious backward directed vein from the transverse median 

 nervure caused me to confound it with the genus Goniozus in my orig- 

 inal description of the species. 



Epyris megacephalus, sp. uov. 



5 . Length, 6™"". ^neous black; head large, broader than the tho- 

 rax, rather closely, strongly punctate; mandibles large, the fourth 

 tooth very broad ; antenmie and legs rufous, the anterior coxoe black ; 

 metathorax with several longitudinal carinas on the disk, the surface 

 transversely rugulose, the surface at posterior angle smooth, polished. 

 Abdomen pointed ovate, shorter than the thorax, smooth, polished; the 

 apical margins of the segments, after the second, narrowly rufous; seg- 

 ments 2, 3, and 4 nearly equal, longer than the following. 



Habitat. — California. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single specimen. 



