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33. M. barra % . — Length 8 mm. — Small, black; head and thorax strongly 

 punctured, clothed with dense white appressed and suhappressed pubescence, in- 

 terspersed with longer erect hair; on mesothorax, scntellum, apex and flanks of 

 metathorax the pubescence is black. Eyes rounded, coiives, shining. Scutellum 

 depressed, the lateral teeth short; no tubercle beneath tegulse ; metathorax re- 

 ticulated, flanks smooth, inipunctured, polished. Wings hyaline or suhhyaline, 

 pale fuscous on apical third ; marginal cell broadly truncate at tip, not quite as 

 long as first and second submarginal cells combined ; second submarginal sub- 

 quadrate, scarcely longer than high, not pointed at base, receiving the recurrent 

 nervure between middle and base; third submarginal incomplete or entirely 

 wanting. Legs with white or pale glittering pubescence, sparse on femora; cal- 

 caria white. Abdomen slender; first segment elongate, subnodose and '-subcou- 

 stricted at apex, with long pale silky hair, the apex with a broad band of dense 

 appressed white pubescence, indented with black on anterior middle; second 

 segment very finely punctured, shining, the pubescence short and black, a hand 

 of dense white pubescence at base dilated laterally, and a narrow band of same 

 on segments 3 and 4; apex with black pubescence; beneath shining, the pubes- 

 cence sparse and pale; second segment deeply and sparsely punctured, with a 

 pubescent fovea behind the middle; apical margin of second and following seg- 

 ments fimbriate with pale pubescence. 



Cluipada (September). Two specimens. 



34. .H. zapara %. — Length 9 mm.^Small, black; head, prothorax, pleura, 

 postscutellum and basal half of metathorax cl-othed with dense silvery-ochraceous 

 pubescence. Eyes rounded, convex, prominent. Mesothorax coarsely punctured, 

 the pubescence black ; scutellum depressed, the pubescence long erect and pale, 

 lateral teeth short ; metathorax reticulated, flanks smooth and polished; pleura 

 without tubercle beneath tegulge, which latter are jjolished black. Wings sub- 

 hyaline, apical third pale fu.scous, iridescent; marginal cell about as long as first 

 submarginal, truncate at tip; second submarginal longer than high, pointed at 

 base, narrowed one-third towards marginal, receiving the recurrent nervure be- 

 fore themi<ldle ; third submarginal triangular, not well defined, the outer nervure 

 very faint. Legs black, the pubescence pale; calcaria white. Abdomen with 

 first segment strongly ))unctured, the pubescence long and pale, apex broad, trans- 

 versely subnodose, the apical margin reddish-brown ; segments 2-4 ferruginous, 

 shining; second segment finely punctured, the pubescence short and black, with 

 longer pale hair at base and sides, a black stripe at extreme lateral margin ; seg- 

 ments 3 and 4 with pale pubescence; remaining segments brown or black with 

 black pul)escence; venter polished, segments 2-4 ferruginous, the pubescence 

 sparse and pale and apical margin fimbriate with pale hair; second segment 

 strongly and sparsely punctured, with a white pubescent fovea behind the mid- 

 dle ; apical segments black, the pubescence black. 



Chapada (September). One specimen. This may prove to be 

 either ocalifera Smith, or proxiina Smith. 



35. M. colorata Gerst. (An-hiv. f. Naturg., xl, p 315).— '^.- Length 10-16 

 mm.— Black; head, prothorax, pleura, sides of metathorax and apex of scutellum, 

 densely clothed with pale ochraceous pubescence. Eyes rounded, convex, promi- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVIII. JANUARY, 1902. 



