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scutellum spinose ; mesopleurum finely punctate and pilose, poste- 

 riorly polished and glabrous; metapleurum coarsely rugose; propo- 

 deum with five well-defined basal and four apical areas, the apical 

 slope polished on each side of median carina, otherwise coarsely 

 reticulate-rugose; hind coxae very large, reaching three-fourths the 

 length of the abdomen ; inner calcarium reaching beyond middle of 

 basitarsus ; abdomen very coarsely reticulate-rugose, the areas more 

 or less distinctly arranged in longitudinal rows, especially on middle 

 of carapace, the median carina, which is very strong on the first 

 tergite, becoming broken into a row of small reticulations on the 

 second tergite; carapace shallowly emarginate at apex; ovipositor 

 hardly exserted. 



Black; antennae basally, labrum and mandibles apically, pale 

 brownish; front femur apically and tibia and tarsus except apical 

 joint brownish testaceous, as are also the middle tibia at apex and 

 joints 2 to 3 of middle tarsus ; all tibiae basally and all calcaria white ; 

 wings hyaline, more or less infumate along veins, venation blackish, 

 stigma pale at base and apex. 



Type.— U. 8.1^ M. No. 42902, from Hamburg Farm, Costa Rica. 



One specimen captured by F. Nevermann, January 22, 1926. 



VIPIO CHINENSIS, new species 



In Marshall's,* Kokujew's,^ and Fahringer's ^ keys to species of 

 Vipio, this species runs to formidahilis Marshall, but is distinct at 

 once by its determinately black hind femora. 



Female. — Length, 10 mm.; antennae, 7 mm.; ovipositor, 25 mm. 

 Head transverse, polished ; temples convexly sloping ; face and malar 

 space minutely punctate, latter hardly as long as basal width of 

 mandible ; clypeus with a fringe of long black hairs at base, " mouth 

 opening" fully a half wider than its distance from eye; mandibles 

 with group of long black hairs at base; maxillae forming a short, 

 thick proboscis; antennae thick, filiform, flagellum slightly com- 

 pre-ssed at base, all joints except first thicker than long, those beyond 

 middle nearly twice as thick as long. Thorax about twice as long 

 as deep, polished, notauli broadly impressed ; metapleurum and pro- 

 podeum sparsely punctate, latter with a broad median groove in 

 which is a strong carina ; metacarpus little longer than stigma ; basal 

 abscissa of radius less than half as long as first intercubitus, second 

 intercubitus much longer than first and sinuate; nervulus intersti- 

 tial ; legs stout, femora and hind coxae distinctlj^, sparsely punctate ; 

 basal joint of hind tarsus as long as combined second and third joints, 

 fifth hardly as long as third. Abdomen slender; first and second 

 segments longer than broad at their intersection, third as broad as 



< Andre: Spec. Hym. Europe-Alg€rie, vol. 5 bis, p. 30, 1897. 



■^Hor. Soc. Eiit. Rossicae, vol. 32, p. 345, 1899. 



' Opuscula Braconologica, Bd. 1, Lief. 2-3, p. 61, 1926. 



