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these effects due to short dense pubescence; mesopleura 
shining and strongly punctured, but the upper part covered 
with dense brownish hair. Wings reddish hyaline, with a 
large suffused brownish cloud beyond marginal cell ; stigma 
and nervures ferruginous; spurs light ferruginous. Abdo- 
men short ; basal segment with a ‘large semilunar area of 
ochreous tomentum, but no apical band; second and 
following segments with very broad apical bands of clear 
reddish-fulyous tomentum, making the whole apical region 
appear yellow ; apical part of venter similarly coloured. 
Ecuador (Baker collection). U.S. Nat. Museum. 
Closely allied to E. cameroni, Meade-Waldo, but dis- 
tinguished by the pattern of the mesothorax, entirely clear 
red. tegulz, red tubercles, and distinct cloud at apex of 
wing. My specimen of cameroni (determined by Meade- 
Waldo) is from Temax, Yucatan (Gaumer). 
Epeolus rugulosus, sp. n. 
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& .—Length about 10°5 mm. ; anterior wing 7°5. 
Black, including mandibles and tubercles, but third 
antennal joint bright ferruginous; eyes pale ochreous, 
brighter above; face rather broad; clypeus minutely and 
densely rugoso- “punctate, not densely hairy ; sides of face 
and region of antenne covered with ochreous hair, which is 
limited by a straight line from orbit to orbit just above 
antenne ; upper border of prothorax with a broad band of 
dense bright ochreous hair, tubercles with paler hair; meso- 
thorax densely punctured, with no discal ornaments, but an 
ochreous band of hair along sides and hind margin; axillar 
spines moderate, but sharp; scutellum with a median 
groove; postscutellum with thin pale hair right across ; 
scutellum with a broad band of ochreous hair posteriorly ; 
mesopleura with a transverse semilunar patch of pale hair 
above, but the greater part shining and strongly punctured ; 
tegule clear ferruginous. Wings hyaline, orange-tinted, 
dusky apically ; stigma and nervures ferruginous. Legs 
black, with pale hair, spurs black. Abdomen elongate, the 
first two segments with a peculiar sculpture consisting of 
longitudinal rugze crossed by very fine lines; remaining 
segments brownish from a very delicate tomentum ; first 
segment with a very large oblique ochreous hair- patch on 
each side, the two patches almost meeting in middle; no 
apical band on first segment, but second to sixth with broad 
bright ochreous entire hair-hbands, becoming white at 
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