EUMENOGASTER. 



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A. Abdomen with the terminal segments dark red notahilis. 



B. Abdomen fulvous ; antenntB with the shaft scarlet ijseiidosphecia. 



C. Abdomen with tlie terminal segments black, 



a. Antennas with the sbaft scarlet above except at base . hcsmacera. 



6. Antennae with the shaft black, whitish at tip eumenes. 



816. Eumenogaster notabilis. 



Pseudospex notahilis, Wlk. xxxi. 94 (1864) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 153. 



S . Head brown ; palpi white in front; some white on frons and 

 behind the eyes, and some grey hairs on vertex ; thorax clothed 

 with brown and yellow hair ; hind tibice fringed with scarlet hair ; 

 abdomen with the first three segments black-brown, the 1st with 

 slight dorsal yellow tufts, the 2nd with two yellowish- white spots, 



the 3rd yellowish white in front ; 

 the terminal segments dark red, 

 becoming brown at extremity, 

 the 4th segment with whitish line 

 in front ; wings yellowish hya- 

 line, the veins and margins brown. 

 Fore wing with slight scarlet 

 subcostal streak ; some yellow 

 jTig. 180. scales below base of cell ; the 



Eumenogaster notahilis, ^. \. area between discocellulars and 



apex clouded by being sparsely 

 irrorated with black and crimson scales ; the brown bands on inner 

 margin and termen rather broad. 



Hab. Amazons, Tapajos (Bates)^ 1 J type. Ea^p. 30 millim. 



817. Eumenogaster pseudosphecia, n. sp. (Plate XIII. fig. 22.) 



Head and thorax blackish ; antennae with the shaft scarlet ; frons 

 white ; palpi, basal joints of antennae and tufts between their bases, 

 edges of tegulae and patagia, patches on meso- and metathorax, 

 pectus and legs yellow ; abdomen fulvous, with whitish band at base 

 of 3rd segment; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins narrowly, 

 brown. Pore wing with the costal area clouded with brown to the 

 median nervure, a reddish streak on inner area. 



Hab. Amazons, Tonantins, 1 $ type, J in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exp, 30 millim. 



818. Enmenogaster hsemacera, n. sp. (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; antennae with the shaft 

 scarlet above except towards base ; fore coxae pure white ; abdomen 

 with lateral white and yellow streaks on first three segments, the 

 2nd and basal half of 3rd segment ventrally white ; wings hyaline, 

 the veins, and margins narrowly, brownish ; the costal half of both 

 wings with the membrane orange-hyaline. 



Hab. Cayenne (Bouchard), 1 <5 type ; co-types in Mus. Oxon. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



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