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of the apex with a row of blunt tubercles. The thorax above is coarsely punctured, 

 especially at the apex, and bears long pale hairs ; the apex of the median segment is 

 black. The pleurae are impunctate, shining ; the apex is blackish. The abdomen is 

 as long as the head and thorax united and is much broader than the head ; the basal 

 segment is ferruginous ; the second segment is ferruginous at the base, where there are 

 two large round black marks, the middle ferruginous, suffused with yellow, the apex 

 broadly black ; the remaining segments are black ; the pygidium is covered with long 

 pale fulvous hair. The keel on the basal ventral segment commences before the middle 

 of the segment and is distinct, but blunt. The second ventral segment is ferruginous, 

 except at the apex; the other ventral segments black. The legs are reddish-testaceous, 

 the apex of the femora and the knees black, the hinder tarsi infuscate. 



50. Sphaerophthalma ingrata. 



Long, fere 5 millim. 2 • 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet [Champion). 



■ Head very little wider than the thorax, not much narrowed behind the eyes, the 

 part behind them about one-fourth longer than their diameter, the hinder part only 

 very slightly and roundly concave ; ferruginous, the sides, occiput, and a line down the 

 centre of the vertex, black. The antennae pale ferruginous, the apex black ; the third 

 joint not much longer than the fourth. The thorax broad, not narrowed towards the 

 apex nor in the middle, at the base almost transverse, the apex with an oblique slope 

 and without spines ; ferruginous, a broad black stripe down the middle. The abdomen 

 is as long as the head and thorax united, equal in width to the thorax ; ferruginous, 

 the second segment black, with a large mark at the base in the middle and two marks 

 on either side pale ferruginous ; the apical segments are entirely ferruginous and 

 bear long pale hairs ; the pygidium has a golden pubescence. The ventral surface 

 ferruginous, except the third and fourth segments, which are black. The legs ferru- 

 ginous ; the hind tibiae rather stoutly spined. 



J 51. Sphaerophthalma minutoria. (Tab. XIV. fig. 26, $ .) 



Long. 4 millim. § . 



Hab. Guatemala, near the city 5000 feet (Champion). 



Head not much wider than the thorax, rounded in front, almost transverse behind, 

 with the sides rounded ; ferruginous, punctured, and covered with white hair ; the eyes 

 slightly projecting, the part of the head behind them a little longer than their diameter , 

 the tips of the mandibles blackish. The antennas stout, pale ferruginous, the apical 

 joints blackish ; the scape curved, bare ; the third joint thinner, and not much longer, 

 than the fourth. The thorax a little longer than the head, rounded in front, not much, 

 if at all, narrowed towards the apex, the sides straight ; the apex with an oblique slope, 



