BRACHYCYRTINE WASPS — WALKLEY 319 



differences. Plowever, the color pattern differs in some respects from 

 that of the t3qje specimen (only two specimens are known to me) and 

 can be within the limits of variation. The abdomen is black where 

 that of the type is brownish, the thorax lacks any black or dark color- 

 ation with the exception of the two spots on the propodcum, and the 

 sciitellar and postsciitellar spots are as in the type specimens; the leg 

 markings, while similar in shape and distribution, are black in the 

 Townes specimen; the black of posterior part of head is not separated 

 from the ocellar spot and the head itself is paler, more whitish than 

 3^ellow. More material is needed to show dehnitel}^ whether it belongs 

 here or is new. The specimen was collected in Puerto Cabello, 

 Venezuela, Feb. 4, 1940, by P. J. Anduze. 



Habryllia muesebcchi, new species 



Figure l,c,e 



This new species is stouter than any other braclwcyrtine species I 

 have seen. 



Holotype, female: Length 6 mm.; forewing 4.5 mm.; antenna 6 

 mm.; ovipositor sheath barely 1.3 mm. 



Head yellowish white, similar to that of H. oculatus (Cushman) in 

 shape but differing in coloration by having only the ocellar triangle 

 black, the occipital area being more or less testaceous; antennae 

 reddish brown \vith o.picai segments darker; flagellum with 31 seg- 

 ments, first segment longer than segments 2 and 3 together. 



Thorax testaceous with the markings on mesopleura, metapleura, 

 and the petiolar area of propodeum as well as a transverse area just 

 below the costulae yellowish white; the postscutellum with the discal 

 area dark brown or blackish; scutellum broader in comparison with 

 its length than in oculatus; the postscutellum distinctly transverse, 

 the disk being IK times as broad as long. As noted in the key to 

 species, the propodeum is polished, without sliagreening or granula- 

 tion, and vfith only a very few large scattered punctures. Forewing 

 with nervulus postfurcal by more than tv»ace its length. 



Abdomen black with apices of segments 2-7 3^ellowish Vvdiite; two 

 lateral transverse pale spots, devoid of pubescence, at base of third 

 segment; legs j^ellowish white wdtli dorsal face of tibiae of front and 

 middle legs brownish at least two-thirds of distance from apex to 

 base; hind coxae dark brown or blackish at base extending posteriorly 

 one-third of distance to apex on dorsal face and at least one-half of 

 distance to apex on lateral face; trochanters more or less blackish; 

 inner and outer faces of hind femora with blackish streak; hind tibia 

 blackish at base and apex with the two areas connected on the outer 



