M BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Epyris analia, Cress. 



Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. iv, p. 193, 9 ; AHbiu. Eut. Am., iii. p. 76; (^ress. Syn. Hym., 

 p. 247. 



9 . Lengtli G""". Head and thorax dark metallic jfreen, shining-, 

 si)arsely clothed with pale i>ubes(!enee ; head subquadrate, flattened, 

 rather dosely and finely punctured; mandibles dark ferruj;inous; palpi 

 whitish; antennae short, robiist, ferruginous; pro and mesothorax 

 sparsely and linelyi)uuctured; motathorax black, quadrate, abrupt later- 

 ally and abruptly truncate at tij), above minutely and transversely aci- 

 culated, the disk with 4 or 5 approximate lonj>itudinal cariuii', posterior 

 face transversi'ly aciculated, the sides longitudinally so; tej;:ulie ferrugi- 

 uous, wings tinged with yellowish-fuscous; legs short, robust, pale 

 ferruginous, anterior coxa^ black, all the femora incrassated; abdomen 

 elongate ovate, smooth and jmlished, black, immaculate, apex ferru- 

 ginous. 



Habitat. — Texas. 



Type in Coll. American Entomological Society. 



Epyris nifipes, Say. 



Bethylus nifipes Say, Lee. Ed. Say's Works i, p. 221. 



Epyris rnfipes Cr. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv, p. 193; Asbm. Ent. Am. Ill, p. 76; 

 Cr. Syn. Hym., p. 247. 



9. Length 4"'™. Black; head large, with sparse punctures; eyes 

 hairy; mandibles large, broad, rufous, 6-deiitate ; legs and antenna? ru- 

 fous, the latter a little dusky at tips. 



Antenna' 13-jointed, long, the S(;ape as long as the first three flagellar 

 joints together; flagellum tapering ofl^" at tip, the first joint the smallest, 

 the others all much longer than thick. Thorax coriaceous, the meta- 

 thorax with longitudinal raised lines, the surface between transversely 

 rugulose. Wings subhyaliue, the nervures brownish, the radius very 

 long. Abdomen ovate, pointed at tip, sparsely hairy, black and polished, 

 the extreme apical edges of segments 3 to 6 rufous. 



Habitat. — Indiana and Southern States. 



Specimens in Coll. American Entomological Society and Coll. Ash- 

 mead. 



Epyris columbianus, sp. nov. 



9 . Length 5""". Black, shining, coriac-eous ; head sparsely punctate, 

 mandibles rufous, large, 6-deutate; antennae, except flagellum, legs and 

 tegulai rufous; flagellum dusky; wings subfuscous. Metathorax with 

 5 longitudinal carina^ on the disk, the two between the central and the 

 outer abbreviated, the outer curving outwardly towards apex, the sur- 

 face transversely rugulose. 



The $ is only 4°"° in length, and agrees with the female, except 

 that the antenna? are longer, the flagellar joints being 2J times as long 

 as thick, the thorax with some sparse punctures, the abdomen elongate, 



