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-abdomen inserted high up on the propodeum, like genera 

 in the Evaniidae, and are for this reason referable to a sep- 

 arate family. 



PSILOPARIA new genus. 



Presumably related to Apechoneura Kriechbaumer, of which 

 it may prove to be a synonym but from which it appears to 

 differ in its armed cheeks. Has also characters in common 

 with Labena Cresson, Grotea Cresson, and Affyirliyssd Ash- 

 mead. 



Type: Psiloparia maculata new species. 



Psiloparia maculata new species. 



Type: No. 4119, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania. 



Type locality: Quebrada, Hacienda Guachipelin, Guana- 

 caste, Costa Rica, Jan. 15, 1910 (Tristan and Calvert).* 



9. -Length 16 mm.; sheaths of the ovipositor 16 mm.; antennae 13 

 mm.; body polished, head and thorax mostly yellow with reddish and 

 black marks, abdomen mostly reddish with a blackish tinge. Facial 

 line: transfacial line : : 44 : 55, eyes slightly emarginate on the inner mar- 

 gin opposite the upper edge of the antennal fossa; antennocular line: 

 facial line : : 3 : 44; front mostly reddish, with an impression on each side 

 back of the antennal fossae, the impressions separated from each other by 

 a median longitudinal crista that extends down between the antennal 

 fossae where it is best developed a short distance below the upper edge 

 of the face; front on each side elevated into a welt, along the eye maigin, 

 that is higher than the adjoining edge of the eye and provided with a few 

 coarse pits; face yellow except for a submarginal, longitudinal, dark 

 stramineous stripe on each side, covered with large, shallow adjoining 

 or nearly adjcining punctures the diameter of some of which : the an- 

 tennocular line 1:2:3; fcit--e elevated above the edge of the adjoining eye 

 margin along which it is transversely striate, and slightly convex, sepa- 

 rated from the clypeus and the malar space by a furrow that is deepest 

 between the malar space and the face; width of clypeus : length 

 down the middle : : 15 :6; basal half of clypeus transversely oblong, trans- 

 versely striate and separated from I he apical half by a transverse carina, 

 the apical half smoother than I lie basal half but yellow like the basal 



[* For notes on this locality see Calvert, A. S. and I'. I'.: A Year of 

 Costa Rican Natural History (New York, Macmillan, H)I7>, pp. 433 ft 

 seq. The "Quebrada" referred to above is the "ablution brook" men- 

 tioned on p. 435. P. P. CAI.VKKT.I 



