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Epyris analis, Cress. 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, p. 193, 9 ; Ashm. Ent. Am., iii, p. 76; Cress. Syn. Hym., 

 p. 247. 



9 . Length G""". Head and thorax dark metallic green, shining, 

 sparsely clothed with pale pnbescence; head snbquadrate, flattened, 

 rather closely and finely pnnctured; mandibles dark ferrnginous; palpi 

 whitish; antennjii short, robnst, ferruginous; pro and meso thorax 

 sparsely and finely punctured ; metathorax black, quadrate, abrupt later- 

 ally and abruptly truncate at tip, above minutely and transversely aci- 

 culated, the disk with 4 or 5 approximate longitudinal carinte, posterior 

 face transversely aciculated, the sides longitudinally so; tegula* ferrugi- 

 nous, wings tinged with yellowish-fuscous; legs short, robust, pale 

 ferruginous, anterior coxa3 black, all the femora incrassated; abdomen 

 elongate ovate, smooth and polished, black, immaculate, apex ferru- 

 ginous. 



Habitat. — Texas. 



Tyj)e in Coll. American Entomological Society. 



Epyris nifipes, Say. 



Bethylus rufipes Say, Lee. Ed. Say's Works i, p. 221. 



Ejjyris rulipes Cr. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, p. 193; Ashm. Ent. Am. ill, p. 76; 

 Cr. Syn. Hym., p. 247. 



9. Length 4""". Black; head large, with sparse imnctures; eyes 

 hairy; mandibles large, broad, rufous, G-dentate; legs and anteuniB ru- 

 fous, the latter a little dusky at tips. 



Antenna*. 13-jointed, long, the scape as long as the first three flagellar 

 joints together ; flagellum tapering oft' at tip, the first joint the smallest, 

 the others all much longer than thick. Thorax coriaceous, the nieta- 

 thorax with longitudinal raised lines, the surface between transversely 

 rugailose. Wings subhyaline, the nervures brownish, the radius very 

 long. Abdomen ovate, pointed at tij), sparsely hairy, black and polished, 

 the extreme apical edges of segments 3 to G rufous. 



Habitat. — Indiana and Southern States. 



Specimens in Coll. American Entomological Society and Coll. Ash- 

 mead. 



Epyris columbianus, sp. nov. 



2 . Length S'"™. Black, shining, coriaceous; head sparsely punctate, 

 mandibles rufous, large, G-dentate; antenna*, except flagellum, legs and 

 tegulse rufous; flagellum dusky; wings subfuscous. Metathorax with 

 5 longitudinal carina? on the disk, the two between the central and the 

 outer abbreviated, the outer curving outwardly towards apex, the sur- 

 face transversely rugulose. 



The S is only 4""" in length, and agrees with the female, except 

 that the antenna' are longer, the flagellar joints being 2i times as long 

 as thick, the thorax with some sparse punctures, the abdomen elongate, 



