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9. POLYCYRTUS (POLYCYRTUS) MINUTUS, new species 



Female. — Length 6.5 mm. 



Differs from above description of oi^natifrovs as follows: Vertex 

 in front view straight; scrobes shallow, and partly defined on inner 

 side by carinae running upward from each side of horn, latter short 

 conical; face smooth; mouth barely as wide as narrowest width of 

 face; temples from above nearly fiat, about a third as long as short 

 diameter of eye; diameter of ocellus hardly two-thirds as long as 

 postocellar line; basal joint of flagellum slightly more slender, an- 

 terior lateral margins of pronotum not prominent, the carina rather 

 low, epomia short but evident; mesopleurum and metapleurum prac- 

 tically unsculptured, propodeum not at all impressed, carina nearly 

 straight medially, spiracles oval, apophyses short conical; areolet 

 small ; sheath about two-thirds as long as hind tibia. 



Head black, clypeus, mandibles, and scape piceous, palpi pale 

 stramineous; hind femur ferruginous; wings hyaline, veins brown, 

 stigma stramineous. 



Male. — Apophyses reduced to low tubercles; second tergite four 

 times as long as broad at base ; annulus on flagellar joints 8-14. 



Type-locality. — Braganza, Para, Brazil. 



Type.—Q?Lt. No. 42178, U.S.N.M. 



Allotype. — Paris Museum. 



One of each sex, the type female taken by Miss H. B. Merrill, and 

 the allotype male from Serra dos Orgaos, Province of Kio Janeiro, 

 Brazil, where it was taken in March, 1902, by E. E-. "Wagner. 



10. POLYCYRTUS (POLYCYRTUS) BOLIVIENSIS, new species 



FeTnale. — Length 9 mm. 



Differs from the above description of ornatifrons as follows : Ver- 

 tex in front view straight; frontal scrobes shallow, horn conical, the 

 two pits above its base flanked outwardly by short strong carinae 

 and separated by a prominent tubercle; face only obsoletely punc- 

 tate; mouth barely as broad as narrowest width of face; temples 

 from above nearly flat; barely a fourth as long as short diameter 

 of eye ; diameter of an ocellus nearly as long as ocell-ocular line and 

 fully twice as long as postocellar line; basal joint of flagellum some- 

 what more slender. Metapleurum coarsely, subobsoletely punctate; 

 anterior lateral margins of pronotum not prominent, the carina 

 rather low; prescutum low and distinctly flattened; propodeum not 

 impressed and without basal elevations, carina nearly straight medi- 

 ally, spiracles oval, apophyses a little nearer to carina than to apex ; 

 inner calcarium two-fifths as long as basitarsus ; areolet small, recur- 

 rent strongly antef ureal. Abdomen polished; second tergite barely 

 three times as long as broad at base, considerably shorter than first ; 

 sheath a little more than two-thirds as long as hind tibia. 



