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SPECIES 3—EPYEI S S^EVA.
PLATE SXXI , FIG. 6.
B. piceicorni valde similis at panilo major ; capitis clypeo bituberculato ; antenuis piceo-rufis in tubercula
insidentibus ; articulo primo crassiori amiulo medio nigro; maudibiilis subfalcatis apice oblique tnmcatis,
dentibus duobus, exteruo majori acuto, armatis (fig-. 6 a) ; metanoto dorso tricarinato ; cariuis lateralibus
ad margiuem elevatimi traiisversum posticum extensis, spatiis interniediis loug-itiidinaliter striolatis, striolis
avitem ad basin eonvergentibus et snbarcuatis, lateribus etiam carina instructis ; abdominis segnieutis margine
postico cum segmentis nltimis piceis; pedibus anticis rnfescentibns, femoribus basi iiigris, 4 posticis nigris,
goniciilisj tibiis basi tarsisque riifescentibiis ; alis luteo-byalinis ; venis et stigmate pallide fuscis.
Long. corp. fere lin, 3 ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 3.
Habitat; . In Mus. Britann. (Coll. Anglic. No. 53, 80, sub nomine Jijjpis niper inscriptus).
SPECIES 4—EPTB.IS HALIDAII.
PLATE FIG. 6.
Niger ; abdomine nitido glabro ; antennarum articulo primo apice, reliqnis cimctis pedibusque rufo-piceis,
trochanteribns tibiis tarsisque ferruginosis; mandibulis apice ferrugineis, capite thoraceque subtUiter intricatim
puuctulatis, fronte, vertice, pro- et mesotboracis dorso prieterea punctis majoribus sparsis pilisque raris albidis ;
scutelli disco lasviore nitente ; metatborace basi rug-uloso, linea longitudinali elevata postice evanescente in canali
posita, apice convexo rotundato ; alis snbfumato-hyalinis, tegiilis venis stigmateque fasco-ferrugineis venis
costalibus disjunctis, areola priebracliiala a stigmate remota.
Long', corp. maris lin. 2 i ; expans. alar, antic. lin. 3i.
Habitat ; Isle of Wigbt (mense September). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxoni®.
STK. : Epyris niger. Haliday, Ent. Mag. vol. iv. p. 433.
Bpyris subcyanms. Haliday, Ent. Mag. vol. v. p. 519.
Specimens of tbis species were taken by W. W. Saunders, Esq., to whom I am indebted for a specimen.
:Mr. Haliday also kindly sent me a pair (but I am not acquainted with their locality). The Comte de Castelnau
took it near Paris, and I have received it from the neighbourhood of Berlin, taken by Dr. Burmeister, from
Stuttgart, taken by Van Roser, and near Brussels, from JI. Wesmael, the latter under the name of Omalus
fii-scicoriiis .Turine, but that insect, as appears clearly from the figure of the fore wings, belongs to the flatheaded
Genus Bethylus.
The species was first described by Mr. Haliday, who mistook it for my JE. niger, which name he corrected
subsequently to E. svioyaneus. I am obliged to alter the latter name from the fact that it is incorrect, the
specimen described by Haliday having been washed over with gum water mixed with corrosive sublimate, which
g-ave it an unnatural bloom. I have therefore applied to it the name of its lamented and most talented
describer.
SPECIES 5—EPTRI S LATHB.OBIOIDES.
PLATE XXIX, FIG. 7.
Yalde elongatus : capite oblongo, clypeo parum producto transverso ; antennis rufis brevibus, articulis
secundo et tertio brevibus fere a;qualibus, proximis sensim majoribus, latere interno paullo productis (fig. 1 ò)\
collari conico antice subtruncato ; metanoto strioHs 5 longitudinalibus duabus intermediis tenuioribus, mterstitiis
transverse striolatis, lineaque longitudinali laterale utrinque notato; abdomine elongato-ovali, glabro,
segmentis snb lente punctis minimis imprcssis, apicibus segmentorum, segmento apicali tegulisque rufo-piceis ;
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pedibus crassis rufis, tibiis 4 posticis extns spinuIo.sis; alis luteo-fuscescentibus venis stigmateque fuscis, cellula
postero-discoidali incompleta ; palpis maxillaribus brevibus, articulis tribus basalibus crassis subicqualibns, tribus
nltimis suba;qualibus tenuioribus (fig. 7 a) ; palpis labialibus articulis tribus snba;qualibus (fig. 7 li).
Long. corp. lin. 5 ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 5.
Habitat ; Ceylon (D, Thwaites). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonia;.
SPECIES G—EPYPJS MUSCAKIUS.
PLATE XXIX, FIG, 8.
Brevis, latus, lajvissime pnnctatus : collare magno transverso ; metanoto transverso-qnadrato ; dorso 5-carinato,
earinis duabus externis parum obliqiiis, interstitiis transverse striolatis, utrinque linea laterali longitudinali
impresso, angulis posticis promincntibus incisis ; antennis fuscis, articulis secundo et tertio brcvissimis Eequalibus ;
mandibulis apice truncate, dente valido externo alteris 4 minutis obtusis (fig. 8 a) ; palpis pallide fulvis ; pedibus
fulvis; femoribus 4 posticis nigris; alis byalinis, venis stigmateque brunneo-fulvis; collaris margine postico,
tegulis margineque postico segmentorum abdoniinahum piceis.
Long. corp. lin. 2i ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 4.
Habitat ; Amazonia (Bates). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonia?.
SPECIES 7—EPYBI S PLATYCEPHALUS.
PLATE XXIX, FIE. 9.
B.obustus, niger, pnnctatus : capite fere piano transverso-subquadrato, clypeo porrecto transverso ; antennis
brevibus, rufo-piceis; collare magno semicirculari; metanoto transverso apice declivi, disco 7-earinato, carinis
long-itudinalibus fere rectis, secundo et sexto antice abbreviatis, lineaque laterali longitudinali utrinque impresso ;
abdomine ovali glaberrimo, segmentorum apicibus piceis ; pedibus brevibus crassis, tibiarum apicibus et tarsis
rufo-piceis ; alis lutescentibus venis stigmateque obscurioribus, cellula postero-discoidali obliterata ; mandibulis
(figs. 9 c, 9 9 c, diversis situbus visis) dente magno bifido apicali alterisque 5 miaoribus obtusis marg'inis interni
; palpis maxillaribus articulis tribus basalibus crassioribus subsequalibus, tribus apicalibus etiam snbcequalibus,
gracilioribns ; palpis labi.alibns articulis tribus subffiqualibiis, secundo ad apiccm dilatato.
Long. corp. lin. 4è ; expans. aliir. antic, liu. 5|.
Habitat ; Austraha Septentrionali (Damell). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonias, et in Mus. Britann. (3 indiv.)
SPECIES 8—EPYEIS PICEIVENTRIS.
PLATE XXIX, FIG. 10.
Niger, pnnctatus punctis minntis : capite subgloboso, clypeo lobis duobus minutis lateralibus instructo ;
antennis brevibus piceis in medio paullo crassioribus, et e medio ad apiccm sensim attenuatis ; collari magno
subquadrato, postice paullo latiori; metanoto in medio carinis 5 longitudinalibus, secunda et quarta multo
gracilioribns, interstitiis transverse striolatis, lateribus linea longitudinali impressis, extus punctatis; abdomine
breviter ovato, rufo-piceo la3vi ; alis hyalinis luteo paullo tinctis, venis stigmateque obscurioribus, cellula infera
discoidali baud determinata ; pedibus nigris tibiis tarsisque piceo-rufis ; mandibulis dente valido apicali alterisque
quatuor niinoribns armatis (fig. 10 a) ; maxillarum palpis articulis tribus basalibus sensim majoribus, tribus
tiltimis ffiqualibus longitudine tertii (fig. 10 i).
Long. corp. lin. 24 ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 4.
Habitat ; Melbourne, New Holland. In Mus. Hopeiano OxoniEe.