322 Journal New York Entomological Society. t^'°'- xxii. 



understood by Friese and Ducke. E. globosa was very briefly de- 

 scribed by Fabricius, and came from the West Indies ; Friese ex- 

 amined specimens from Porto Rico and St. Thomas. Friese's de- 

 scription does not quite accord with ccxvictiicc, and I suspect that the 

 true globosa is confined to the West Indies. The single female from 

 Columbia, cited by Friese, was very likely E. zcxmcnicc. 



According to Ducke, E. analis Spinola (female. Para), E. villi pes 

 Sm. (female, Brazil), E. tarsata Sm. (female, Santarem) and E. 

 art if ex Sm. (male, female. Para) are all synonyms of E. globosa. 

 The descriptions do not altogether support this opinion, but they are 

 not very detailed. E. artifex differs from E. zcxmenicc in the female 

 by the dense pale fulvous pubescence on the scutellum, and in the 

 male by the rufotestaceous labrum (black in zextnenia). There is 

 no mention of any dark hair on the thorax above in analis or villipes. 

 In villipes the mandibles are ferruginous ; in sexmcnice and mantii 

 they have only a red spot. The descriptions of the legs of villipes and 

 tarsata, if correct, do not agree with zexmenia or manni. I therefore 

 conclude that the relationships of all these species or races need 

 further investigation; but it seems not improbable that maiuii is the 

 same as tarsata, and artifex a synonym of analis. Furthermore, it is 

 unlikely that manni and zcxmenioe are more than races of a single 

 species. 



Exomalopsis bruesi new species. 



Female. — Length about 7 mm. ; broad, robust, black ; mandibles dark fer- 

 ruginous, with the base black; flagellum dull rufotestaceous beneath except at 

 base; small joints of anterior and middle tarsi, and hind tarsi entirely clear 

 ferruginous; tegulae black; wings dusky hyaline, the apical margin darker, 

 stigma and nervures light ferruginous; clypeus shining, not densely punctured; 

 hair of head and thorax mainly pale ochreous above (including dense bands 

 at sides of face) and white below, but black on disc of mesothorax posteriorly, 

 and on disc of scutellum ; a slight fringe of pale hair along hind border of 

 scutellum, and a tuft of ochreous hair on postscutellum ; hair of legs mostly 

 white, but a little fuscous on outer side of anterior tibiae, a slaty or black patch 

 covering nearly all of outer side of hind tibiae, and the large scopa of hind 

 tibia; and tarsi longitudinally tricolored, creamy white in front, ferruginous 

 on inner side and black behind ; spurs pallid ; first two abdominal segments 

 shining black, the first with a tapering pale fulvous hair-patch on each side, 

 the second with a pair of large oblique orange-fulvous patches ; remaining seg- 

 ments densely covered with orange-fulvous hair, but long white hair visible 

 at extreme sides subvcntrally. 



