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with black hairs ; the other ventral segments are finely transversely striated at the base, 

 the apex with smaller punctures than on the second segment ; all the segments at the 

 apex are fringed with long black hairs ; the hypopygium offers no noteworthy peculiarity. 

 The legs black and covered with black hair, the calcaria being also black. The wings 

 smoky, the apical portion from the apex of the radial cellule being darker and more 

 uniformly coloured ; the radial cellule wide, projecting beyond the apex of the third 

 cubital cellule ; the basal abscissa of the radius oblique and, if anything, longer than 

 the apical abscissa, which is only very slightly oblique, being almost straight ; the first 

 cubital cellule is shorter than the radial and at the bottom is, if anything, shorter than 

 the second ; the first and second transverse cubital nervures are bluntly elbowed at the 

 bottom ; the top of the second cubital cellule is a little longer than the space bounded 

 by the first transverse cubital and the first recurrent nervures, the latter being received 

 near the basal fourth of the cellule ; the third cubital cellule is only indicated by the 

 stump of the third transverse cubital nervure at the top. The tegulse are very shining, 

 smooth, and broad. 



122. Sphaerophthalma rodriguezi. 



Mgra ; capite, protborace, scutello abdominisque apice late auranteo-hirtis ; abdominis segmeuto 2° fere toto 



auranteo ; pedibus nigris ; alis fuscis. S • 

 Long. 10 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, Capetillo (Champion). 



Head a little narrower than the thorax, rounded in front and behind, the part 

 behind the eyes only a little shorter than them, black ; the top to the points of inser- 

 tion of the antennae densely covered with long pale fulvous hair ; below the antennae 

 the hair is long and black ; the mandibles are entirely black. The antennae are shorter 

 than the head and thorax united, black ; the scape punctured and covered with long 

 black hair; the second joint is also covered thickly with stiff black hair; the flagellum 

 with a fuscous down ; the third and fourth joints are subequal. The thorax is black ; 

 the pronotum and the scutellum thickly covered with long pale fulvous hair ; the meso- 

 notum rugose and covered with stiff black hairs. The median segment has an abrupt 

 oblique slope ; it is coarsely reticulated and covered with very long pale hairs. The 

 pleura have large, deep, round punctures, except the base of the metapleurse, which 

 has only one or two ; they are covered with long pale hairs, as on the median segment. 

 The abdomen is as long as the head and thorax united, and is wider than the 

 thorax. The petiole becomes gradually wider to the apex ; it bears large, deep, wide 

 punctures, and is covered with long pale hairs. The second segment is finely 

 punctured ; the base and apex are black, the black projecting in the middle, 

 especially on the apical patch, which is the larger of the two ; the centre is orange ; 

 the black parts are covered with black, the orange part with orange hairs ; the extreme 



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