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274 Say^s Descriptions of 



posture, by the extremity of the abdomen. Came out last 

 of June, 



This is much like E. damicorms, Kirby, which, how- 

 ever^ has a shade in the middle of the wings ; antennae 

 not shaded in the middle and the posterior thighs of the 

 female are dusky in the middle. I have five females, 

 but not one male. 



The last joint of the antennae is evidently divided into 

 three segments. 



3. E. hircinus. Black, with sparse, long hairs ; feet 

 and base of the tergum yellowish. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : antenn^B yellowish ; terminal joints 

 dusky: mouth yellowish; thorax^ head and wings at 

 base, with long sparse hairs : wing-scale honey-yellow : 

 tergum on the basal disk yellowish : feet, including the 

 coxse, pale yellow: venter on the disk yellowish. 



Length over one twentieth of an inch. 



Quite distinct from the preceding by the long hairs of 

 the head and thorax. 



Perilampus, Latr. 



P.platigaster. Blackish ; face impunctured. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body brassy-blackish, punctured : head polished, im- 

 punctured before : occiput somewhat lineated transverse- 

 ly ; before the eyes a little punctured : thorax with a 

 glabrous, polished line each side : scutel short, obtuse, 

 rounded, slightly emarginate at tip : wings hyaline ; 

 nervures brown : tergum quadrate, angulated each side, 

 simply arcuated above, shining blackish : feet blackish^ 

 with a tinge of green : tarsi yellowish. 



