60 AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 



Eiiicospilus bicolor Tasch. 

 Ophion bicolor Taschenberg, Zeitschr. f. d. Ges. Natur., 46, p. 434, 



n. 19, 9 1875. 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 188 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34'ne Pasc, p. 27, n. 



53 1905. 



Testaceous, ante7tnce and apex of abdomen black, wings Jiavo-hy aline, 

 7vith two horny macules, the larger cordate, appendiculate, the smaller 

 crescentic. 



Length, 24 mm. 



Head testaceous, antennae and eyes black ; thorax uniformly shell- 

 yellow, somewhat sericeous, especially the weak metathorax ; the ante- 

 rior transverse carina of the metathorax not uniting with the lateral 

 carinas but running out before reaching them ; the surface finely 

 rugose. 



Wings tinged with fulvous, the discocubital cell with two maculae, the 

 larger heart-shaped with an arcuate continuation extending along the 

 border of the glabrous area, in the middle of which the pale crescent- 

 shaped smaller macula stands upright. 



Abdomen with the three basal segments shell-yellow ; the fourth has 

 only a lateral spot of this color at the base, and the rest only a reflec- 

 tion on the outer lateral angle, otherwise black. 



I have not seen a specimen of this species, and can only 

 give a free translation of Taschenberg's description. 



Type. — 9. Nova Friburgo, Brazil; location unknown. 



Taschenberg considered this species as " standing very 

 near E. nigricornis Br. in color and shape of the maculae, but 

 could not call its color rufous," as in the latter, he " also 

 found the color of the abdomen different, and the angle which 

 the second recurrent vein forms with the outer edge of the 

 large cell is certainly more blunt than in E. nigricornis ; if 

 even its sides are the same." As E. nigricornis Br. has only 

 a linear, oblong macula, the two should not be confused. 



Distribution. — Nova Friburgo, Brazil. 



Enicospilus fuscicornis Cam. 

 ? Ophion sphacelatus Erichson, Schomburg's Reisen in British 



Guiana, Part III, p. 587 1848. 



" {Enicospilus) fuscicornis Cameron, Biol. Centr. Amer., 



Hym., I, p. 291, n. 8, 9 1886. 



Henicospilus fuscicornis Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 182 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34nie Fasc, 



p. 27, n. 58 1905. 



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