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EPICHARIS SEMIMURINUS. new species, 



Male. — Length 21 mm,, anterior wing 17 mm. ; the abdomen witli- 

 out spots or bands, the first three segments bare, the others with 

 sparse but long and coarse black hairs; ventrally the abdomen has 

 much long pale hair. Front broad; hair of head black; labrum 

 large, quadrate, cream-color; clypeus entirely black, with two strong 

 carinae converging above, between the carinae there is on the upper 

 part a strong median groove, on each side of which are strong 

 punctures; mandibles black, with fulvous apical patch; lateral face 

 marks consisting of cream-colored stripes beginning between eye 

 and mandible and extending along clypeal suture to about middle 

 of side of clypeus; scape with a large light yellow spot in front; 

 flagellum dark brown beneath; front with a strong longitudinal 

 keel; thorax covered with gray hair, mixed with black anteriorly 

 above; wings dark fuliginous, shining purple; legs as usual in the 

 rustica group; hind femora \ery stout, with two large yellow apical 

 spots; hind tibiae with the outer surface bright orange-yellow (a 

 finger-like brown mark near base) ; hind tarsi peculiar, the basi- 

 tarsus on outer side yellow, with an immense black-edged spine in 

 front. 



Campinas, Brazil, February 25, 1901 (Hempel, 402). This agrees 

 structurally with E. schrottkyi, except as to the clypeal groove, but 

 the thorax has gray hair as in E. dejeani. 



Type.— Cat. No.^ 21658, U.S.N.M. 



EPICHARIS ANGUSTIFRONS. new species. 



3fale. — Length about 19 mm., anterior wing 15 mm.; black, the 

 abdomen without pale hair or marks above; labrum and cuneiform 

 lateral face-marks between eye and clypeus light yellow ; mandibles 

 black, with fulvous apical patch; a pair of small oblique (converg- 

 ing) supraclypeal yellow marks ; scape with rather indistinct yellow 

 stripe; hair of head black, of thorax grayish-black; four anterior 

 legs with black hair, but hind tibiae and tarsi with large, very bright 

 orange-fulvous scopa. Superficially like E. schrottkyi Friese (from 

 Maroni, Guiana), but differing as follows: front much narrower; 

 ocelli larger; labrum smaller, with a more copious fringe of black 

 hair; clypeus with only feeble indistinct punctures, the keels only 

 developed at upper end, a delicate median groove from base to 

 apex; mesothorax with distinct though scattered punctures; scutel- 

 lum dull, with a shining area in anterior middle and posteriorly in 

 middle with a deep depression; wings shining green (purple in 

 schrottkyi) ; apical plate of abdomen large and broad ; tegument of 

 legs without any yellow ; hind basitarsi with a relatively small obtuse 



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