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Genus TRYPHON, Grav. 

 Tryphon cinctus, n. sp. 



Black ; face, orbits, annulus an antenna?, collar, two stripes on mesothorax, 



most of pleura, scutellum, sides, tip and two spots at base of metathorax, and 



bands on abdomen, white; legs fulvous, hind tarsi black with a white annulus: 



wings hyaline. 



Male — Black, densely and uniformly punctured ; face, except a black 

 spot just behind the antennae, orbits, clypeus, mandibles, except tips, 

 and the palpi, white; antennae rather longer than the body, attenuated 

 towards the tips, which are very slender, black, with a white annulus 

 slightly beyond the middle, basal joint beneath white. Thorax : meso- 

 thorax with two broad longitudinal whitish stripes, triangularly dilated 

 in front, and attenuated in the middle; the collar, tegulae, a small spot 

 before and a larger one beneath the anterior wings, a spot behind the 

 posterior wings, and the pleura, except the sutures dividing it from the 

 pectus and metathorax, white; scutellum rather large and transverse, 

 entirely white, as well as a transverse line on the postscutellum ; me- 

 tathorax densely and confidently punctured, black, a large spot occu- 

 pying the extreme sides, a transverse band near the insertion of the 

 abdomen, and a spot on each side at base, white. Wings hyaline, 

 slightly iridescent ; nervures and stigma black ; areolet minute, petio- 

 lated, oblique. Legs long and rather slender, pale fulvous, all the coxae 

 white, the posterior pair with an exterior black longitudinal line; pos- 

 terior tarsi black, the 2nd and 3rd joints white, tips of the other tarsi 

 Idackish. Abdomen sessile, subcylindrical, about as long as the head 

 and thorax, densely punctured, black, the base of the first and the api- 

 cal margins of all the segments, broadly white; upper surface of the 

 basal segment uneven, with a small blunt tubercle on each side of the 

 middle. Length ±\ lines; expanse of wings 7 lines. 



Collection. — Or. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



Tryphon 1 exiguus, n. sp. 



Piceous; face, legs, and middle of abdomen, yellowish; meso- and metathorax 

 stained with brown; wings hyaline, iridescent, areolet incomplete; abdomen 

 sessile. 



Female. — Head black, face slightly protuberant, yellow, as well as 

 the clypeus, mandibles, except tips, and the palpi ; antennae rather 

 slender, more than half the length of the body, fuscous, yellow at base. 

 Thorax piceous. polished ; mesothorax brown, as well as the scutellum 

 and dorsal surface of the metathorax; scutellum rather convex; meta- 

 thorax polished, the elevated lines obsolete on the disk, distinct on the 

 sides; tegulae yellowish. Wings hyaline, iridescent; nervures and 

 stigma pale fuscous, the latter rather large; areolet small, incomplete, 

 the outer nervure wanting, the marginal cell short and subtriangular. 



