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side of middle; malar space hardly as long as basal width of man- 

 dible, constricted, mouth hardly as broad as narrowest width of 

 face; occipital carina in side view strongly convergent above with 

 posterior margin of eye, prominent below and separated from 

 hypostomal carina by a rather deep furrow, hypostomal carina 

 low; temples from above weakly oblique, flat, about a third as long 

 as short diameter of eye ; diameter of ocellus nearly as long as ocell- 

 ocular line and nearly twice postocellar line; first joint of flagellum 

 about seven times as long as thick. Thorax polished, almost with- 

 out sculpture; anterior lateral carina of pronotum not especially 

 high, epomia short but distinct; prescutum convex, rather low an- 

 teriorly, lateral lobes slightly flattened; scutellum rather low, pre- 

 pectal carina obsolete from shortly above notauli; mesopleural fur- 

 row foveolate; propodeum not impresed in basal middle, basal ca- 

 rina nearly straight, spiracle broadly oval, apophyses of moderate 

 length, straight, about midway between carina and apex; hind 

 femur distinctly less than twice as thick in middle as at apex, inner 

 calcarium half as long as basitarsus; areolet small, short, recurrent 

 not far before apex; nervulus interstitial (type) or slightly ante- 

 furcal (paratype) ; postnervulus broken above middle, nervellus 

 broken not far below middle. Abdomen rather stout, second 

 tergite three times as long as broad at base, distinctly shorter than 

 first ; tergites beyond second clothed with conspicuous blackish hairs. 



Head black, face, clypeus, mouth parts, apex of frontal horn, and 

 orbits (broadly on front, narrowly behind eyes) white; lower cheeks 

 black; annulus embracing flagellar joints 5-11 and apex of 4; pro- 

 pleura whitish; pronotum black with broad anterior-lateral and 

 humeral margins whitish; mesoscutum immaculate black; scutelMm 

 and carinae and postscutellum whitish, lateral areas black, apophyses 

 whitish ; thorax otherwise and propodeum testaceous ; legs testaceous, 

 coxae stramineous, hind tibia and tarsus pale, front and middle tarsi 

 fuscous ; wings pale yellowish hyaline, stigma pale, veins black ; abdo- 

 men largely whitish, petiole pale testaceous, tergite 2 broadly and 3 

 and 4 narrowly piceous at base. 



Type-locality. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Tyjpe.—C^t. No. 13247, U.S.N.M. 



Paratype.— ^o. 771.8, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



Two specimens from the type series of Polycyrtus copiosics Cresson. 



34. POLYCYRTUS COPIOSUS Cresson 



Polycyrtus copiosus Ckesson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, p. 146, 

 female, male (part). 



Finding that a cotype of this species deposited in the United States 

 National Museum disagreed in some respects with the original de- 

 scription I asked Miss Grace Sandhouse on a visit to the Academy 



