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[September 
Texas) E. zexmanice has dark hair behind ocelli, but the Panama 
form has it very pale reddish. In E. paitensis this hair is creamy 
white. 
Melissodes tepaneca panamensis subsp. n. 
Female (type). Size and appearance of M. tepaneca Cresson, 
but thorax above with very bright fox-red hair, the disc of 
mesothorax with a large patch of short black hair, not reaching 
sides. Head very broad; eyes grey or green (doubtless green in 
life); clypeus densely rugosopunctate ; face and cheeks with dull 
white hair; some long black hairs behind ocelli, and back of this, 
the occiput has bright fulvous hair; flagellum bright ferruginous 
beneath except at base; tegulae clear ferruginous; wings dusky; 
lower part of pleura in front with sooty hair; legs with fulvous 
hair, black on anterior basitarsi in front; scopa of hind legs 
large; bright ferruginous hair on inner side of hind tarsi; ab- 
domen with dense fulvous bands, second segment with bands at 
base and middle; fourth with black hair at extreme base, and a 
little in middle apically ; fifth with all hair black except at extreme 
sides, sixth with black. There is black hair on outer side of 
middle tibiae apically, and around hind knee-plate. Male. The 
single male with the same data, might well pass as M. tepaneca. 
Clypeus lemon yellow; labrum and base of mandibles cream- 
color; antennae very long, flagellum bright ferruginous beneath; 
hair of thorax above fulvous, without any black patch. 
Cristobal, Aug. 10 3 $ . 1 cf. I thought at first to refer this 
to M. tepaneca aschenborniana Ckll., based on the male from 
Guatemala, but the fifth segment has black hair in middle, and 
the hair between the basal and median bands on second segment 
is dusky yellowish, not black. It also differs from M. costaricensis 
( Tetralonia costaricensis Friese). I am not sure that this may 
not be Melissodes cajennensis (Lepeletier) based on the male 
from Cayenne, but in the absence of females from that region it 
is impossible to reach any conclusion. 
Hypanthidium taboganum Cockerell 
Ancon, Aug. 6, male. Bella Vista, Aug. 7. Female. Mr. 
H. F. Schwarz (American Museum Novitates, 253) has recently 
