820 HYMENOPTERA. 



v 14. SphsBrophthalma euryclea. (Tab. XIV. fig. 7, $ .) 



Long. 8 millim. $ . 



Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H H. Smith). 



Head wider than the thorax, transverse in front, concave behind, the sides straight, 

 the eyes projecting, the part behind them more than twice their length, the keel blunt ; 

 black, punctured, bearing long black hair, and a patch of dense golden pubescence 

 extends from the eyes round the vertex. The mandibles are ferruginous, with a tuft 

 of golden pubescence at the base. The head immediately above the mandibles is dull 

 ferruginous. The scape of the antennae is thin and ferruginous; the basal joints of the 

 flagellum are brownish beneath ; the third joint is double the length of the fourth. 

 The thorax is not much longer than the head, and is distinctly narrowed behind and in 

 the middle ; the base is bluntly rounded ; the apex has a gradually rounded slope. 

 The sides at the base are rough and oblique ; following this are two stout, sharply- 

 pointed teeth, the basal one being the larger ; on the sides of the median segment are 

 three large, sharply-pointed teeth, followed by a small tubercle. The propleurse are 

 punctured above ; the meso- and metapleurae smooth, shining. The thorax is black, 

 obscure brownish along the sides above ; coarsely punctured above, and bearing long 

 black hairs. The abdomen is a little wider than the thorax, and is as long as the 

 head and thorax united, black ; the basal segment with a band of pale golden 

 pubescence at the apex, the rest of it being sparsely covered with long blackish hair ; 

 a golden line, broad at the base, becoming gradually narrowed towards the apex, runs 

 down the centre of the second segment to a broad transverse band of golden pubescence, 

 which does not reach the apex of the segment, but is joined to it by a short, broad, 

 golden line ; there is a similar line on the centre of the third segment ; the fourth and 

 fifth segments are entirely golden ; the pygidium is shining, punctured at the base, and 

 covered with long fuscous hair. There are a few long hairs on the base of the second 

 segment and still more on its apex ; the other segments are rather thickly covered with 

 long black hair. The keel on the basal ventral segment is rounded at the base, the 

 middle distinctly raised ; at the apex it is almost obsolete. The second ventral segment 

 has large, widely-separated punctures ; the other segments are more closely and finely 

 punctured, and obscure ferruginous. The legs are dull ferruginous, and sparsely 

 covered with white hair ; the calcaria are pale ; the tibial spines are very long and 

 sharp ; the metatarsus is densely clothed beneath with pale fulvous pubescence. 



v 15. SphsBrophthalma animosa. (Tab. XIV. fig. 8, $ .) 



Capite et tborace ferrugineis, vertice fusco, pedibus antennisque rufis ; abdomine supra nigro, aureo-hirto, 



subtus rufo. 

 Long, fere 8 millim. $ . 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Jansori). 



