14 PBOCEUDINGS of the national museum. vol.61. 



"where mentioned, inclined toward rufous, also area on hind coxae 

 above. 



Head nearly as wide as hind margin of pronotum; face finely 

 longitudinally rugose-punctate, short pubescent; line from median 

 ocellus to level of clypeus 1.2 times interocular distance; malar space 

 one-fifth length of eye; clypeus truncate on edge; postocellar area 

 nearly twice ocellocular; vertex broad, closely punctate; iridescent; 

 distance across scapal furrows at base about three times distance from 

 margin of furrow to eye; occipital carina prominent, angulate for- 

 ward; eyes only slightly sinuate; antennae piceous, 12-segmented, 

 slightly ferruginous beneath; first funicular segment only slightly 

 longer than pedicel, second about twice first ; third, fourth, and fifth 

 subequal, rest becoming stouter, apical segment conical with indis- 

 tinct suture near tip. 



Pronotum contiguous punctate, without a transverse carina near its 

 hind margin ; mesoscutum about 1.3 times length of pronotum ; scu- 

 tellum without yellow markings, apex broadly rounded; metanotum 

 with parallel longitudinal ridges in foveae separated by deep punc- 

 tures, its lateral margins broad and polished, apex crescent-shaped 

 'with margin smooth entire and slightly upturned; propodeum twice 

 as long as metanotum in media\i line, with high thin median heel 

 obliquely angulate behind, lateral carinae prominent (text fig. 2(Z 

 and h). (Paratype specimen has a high arched median carina.) 

 Hind coxa evenly punctate above, upper margin thin and sharply 

 angled, but without spur; hind femur 1.7 times longer than wide, 

 closely punctate, its basal tooth beneath broad, blunt, and followed 

 by eleven smaller teeth, the first six of which are distinctly separated, 

 the rest smaller and crowded close together. Fore wings fuliginous, 

 except for a hyaline streak longitudinally through center ; hind wings 

 slightly paler. 



Abdomen about length of head and thorax together, densely pube- 

 scent behind fourth tergite, the hind margins of fifth and sixth 

 fringed with hairs and apex covered with long golden pubescence; 

 seen from above the fourth tergite is slightly constricted, the sixth 

 swollen and the apex compressed ; seen from the side the dorsal line 

 is arched. Ovipositor reflexed over dorsum to a little beyond middle 

 of sixth tergite, its groove reaching to apex of fifth. 



Described from two specimens. Type female, one female paratype. 



Type.— C2.t. No. 24382, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat.-^Bouih America : Sao Paulo. (December 12 and 26, 1902, 

 Beron.) 



4. LEUCOSPIS SUMICHRASTI Cresson. 



Described from one female collected by Professor Sumichrast in 

 Mexico. 



