306 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Ihjmenojjteia. 



Elis varicolor, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra, intida, sparsissime punctata, capite pallide femigineo ; 

 prothorace, macula magna mesonoti, tegulis, macula scutelli, linea 

 postscutelli, macula magna mesopleurarum, tibiis tarsisque antici8 

 aurautiacis; maculis lateralibus segmeutorum abdominis (sexto 

 excepto) flavis ; alls subhyalinis, venis fuscis. 



Long. It) mm. 



Clypeus shining, deeply punctured at the base. Head 

 shining, the vertex and ocellar region smooth^ front closely 

 punctured, prominent above the base of the antennae and 

 divided by a short, shallow, longitudinal sulcus. Scape 

 shining, very sparsely punctured. Pronotum and meso- 

 pleurse coarsely but not closely punctured, mesonotum and 

 scutellum very sparsely punctured ; median segment almost 

 smootii, with a coarsely punctured space near the middle of 

 the apical margin, the sides of the segment indistinctly 

 obliquely striated. Abdomen shining, with a few scattered 

 punctures towards the apex, the apical segment finely longi- 

 tudinally striated Radial cell very narrowly rounded at the 

 apex, the second abscissa of the radius nearly half as long 

 again as the third, cubitus of the hind wing interstitial with 

 the transverse median nervure. 



Black ; the head pale ferruginous red ; pronotum, a large 

 spot on the mesonotum, another on the scutellum, a trans- 

 verse line on tl:e postscutellum, the tegulse, a large spot on 

 the mesopleurse, and the anterior tibiae and femora orange ; a 

 large spot on each side of abdominal segments 1-5 yellow ; 

 calcaria whitish. Wings hyaline, tinged with yellow, 

 nervures fuscous. 



Hab. Brazil (Sella). 



Type in tiie Berlin Museum. 



Elis frontalis, Burm. 

 Phsia frontalis, Bm-m. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvii. p. 177 (1870). 

 Hab. Cordova {Bunntister) ; Salta {Steinbach). 



Elis ephippium, Fabr. 

 Tiphia epliippiutn, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 228 (1793). 

 Hab. Porto Rico ; St. Thomas ; St. John (Berlin Museum) , 



Subfamily Tipsiinji. 



Ejmmidiopteron elegantulum, Sm. 



Epumidiopleron elegantulum, Sm. Journal of Entomulogv, i. p. 79 

 (1860). 



There is some confusion about this name, the specimen 



