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these effects due to short dense pubescence; mesopleura 

 shining and strongly pvinctured, but the upper jiavt 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 w^th very broad apical bands of clear 

 reddish-fulvous 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 tegulae, red tubercles, and distinct cloud at apex of 

 Aviug. My specimen of cameroni (determined by Aleade- 

 Waldo) is from Teniax, Yucatan (Gaumer). 



Ejjeolus rvgulusus, sp. n. 



c^ . — Length about 105 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 antennae covered with ochreous hair, which is 

 limited by a straight line from orbit to orbit just above 

 antennse ; upper border of prothorax with a broad band of 

 dense bright ochreous hair, tubercles with paler hair; meso- 

 thorax densely punctured, with no diseal ornaments, but an 

 ochreous band of hair along sides and hind margin ; axillar 

 spines moderate, but sharp ; scutellum with a median 

 groove ; postscutellura 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 ; 

 tegulae clear ferruginous. W'ings 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 rugre crossed by very fine lines ; remaining 

 segments brownish from a very delicate tomentum ; first 

 segment Avith 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-bands, becoming white at 



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