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Anaxipha nigerrima, new species 



Figures 2,o, 4,e 



Types: Holotype: Female; Fiindo Sinchono, about 40 miles south- 

 west of Pucallpa, Rio Ucuj^ali, Peru, Aug. 14, 1947, Schunke (USNM 

 62074). Allotype: Same locality as holotj-pe, Aug. 29, 1947, Schunke 

 (cf ) (USNM). Paratypes: Same locality as holotype, Sept. 5, 1947, 

 Schunke (Icf); Divisoria, elevation 1,600 meters, about 80 miles 

 southwest of Pucallpa, Rio Ucuyali, Peru, 1947, Schunke (19); 

 Tingo Maria, Peru, December 1949, AUard (1 cf) (USNM). 



Female: Blackish, shining with yellowish legs, the posterior femora 

 adorned in the middle with a blackish brown ring. Head blackish 

 brown, shining, almost glabrous; vertex sloping, flattened. Face 

 brown. Eyes projecting, rounded. Antennae yellow with blackish 

 two first joints. Palpi blackish; 4th joint of maxillary palpi much 

 shorter than 3d, 5th scarcely equal to the 3d, triangular. 



Pronotum blackish with a fine whitish pubescence and some long 

 black bristles, chiefly along the anterior margin; general shape rather 

 neatly narrowing in front; anterior margin rather convex, posterior 

 margin feebly sinuated; disk rather strongly convex, feebly furrowed 

 in the middle; lateral lobes with straight inferior margin, much- 

 rounded anterior angle. Abdomen dark brown. Ovipositor rather 

 short, with apical valves equaling almost half the total length, very 

 finely denticulated. Cerci brownish with yellow base. 



Legs rather long. Anterior femora yellowish with a fine black 

 pubescence, feebly darkened at apex; tibiae blackish, with strongly 

 widened basal half; auditor}'- foramina large, chiefly the internal; 

 tarsi blackish, the metatarsus very long, the 3d joint very short. 

 Median femora like the anterior ones; tibiae not so strongly darkened. 

 Posterior femora long, rather narrow, j^ellowish, with a rather 

 wide blackish ring in the middle; tibiae yellowish, darkened at top, 

 with rather short grayish spines; apical spurs short, dark gi'ay, the 

 superointernal wide, acute at apex, extending only to the middle of 

 the metatarsus; the latter is long, grayish wdth yellowish base. 



Elytra as long as abdomen, rather narrow, wholly of a shining 

 black; veins of the dorsal field rather projecting, oblique, widely 

 separated, plain, uniting at apex, except the Cu which is furcate near 

 the extremity; transverse veinlets very distant; lateral field black, 

 with three plain, parallel veins. '^^Wings caudate; anterior field 

 blackish with white apex. 



Length of body 6.8 mm.; length with wings 12.0 mm.; posterior 

 femur 5.1 mm.; elytra 5.0 mm.; ovipositor 2.0 mm. 



Male (allotype): Head, pronotum, and legs as in the female. 

 Elytra with parallel margins; mirror large and wide, IK times as long 



