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Genus EupHorus, Nees. 
ŒEUPHORUS SCULPTUS. JV. sf.—@ Black; head shining, pale yellow- — 
ferruginous ; spot enclosing ocelli, and occiput black ; palpi fuseous ; 
antennæ long, slender, entirely black; mesothorax finely punctured, 
somewhat shining; scutellum, metathorax and first abdominal segment 
densely rugose, opaque; metathorax broad, abruptly truncate behind ; 
tegulæ rufo-piceous; wings faintly dusky, nervures and stigma fuscous, 
the latter broad ; legs dull ferruginous, coxae black, four posterior tro- 
chanters, femora at base, and more or less of their tibiae and tarsi 
blackish ; abdomen beyond first segment sub-ovate, flattened, smooth and 
polished ; first segment broadly dilated at tip; ovipositor pale, nearly as 
long as abdomen, sheaths black and thickened at tips. Length .15 
inch. 
/fab.—Illinois.: One specimen. 
EUPHORUS MELLIPES. JV. sf.—. Black, shining; face with dense 
silvery-white pile; clypeus and mandibles, except tips, pale ferruginous ; 
palpi pale ; antennae pale ferruginous, more or less dusky toward tips, the 
joints short and distinct; thorax gibbous, minutely sculptured ; meta- 
thorax rounded, opaque, coarsely granulated; tegulae pale; wings 
hyaline, iridescent, nervures pale yellowish, stigma fuscous, paler at base ; 
legs, 1ucluding coxae, honey-yellow, tips of posterior tibiae and more or 
less of their tarsi dusky ; abdomen small, sub-ovate beyond first segment, 
depressed, smooth and polished, rufo-piceous ; first segment gradually 
dilated to apex, longitudinally aciculated, black ; venter pale rufo-piceous. 
Length .13 inch. 
Hab.—New Jersey; Illinois. Three specimens. 
EUPHORUS SCITULUS. A. 55.— . Head sub-globose, honey-yellow; 
spot covering ocelli and tips of mandibles black : antennae about as long 
as head and thorax, pale fuscous, honey-yellow at base, the joints short, 
pale sericeous ; thorax honey-yellow, darker than head, mesothorax and 
scutellum fuscous ; tesulae pale ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and 
stigma fuscous, the latter large, sub-triangular, marginal cell very short, 
about one-third the length of stigma; legs, including coxae, pale honey- 
yellow, posterior femora, tibiae and tarsi more or less dusky ; abdomen 
smooth shining, fuscous, first and base of second segment honey-yellow. 
Length .08 inch. - 
ÂHab.—Tllinois. One specimen. 
