388 BULLETIN 15, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Described from four specimens. 



This interesting species is dedicated to my friend Mr. Tlico. Per- 

 gaude, to wliom I am indebted for two of the four specimens. 



HOPLOPRIA Asluu., gen. iiov. 

 (Type //. puUhrqtiiniis Aslim. ) 



This genus is founded upon a South American species in the Berlin 

 Museum, and is clearly allied to FaiamcHius Westwood, but differs in 

 having a curved acute spine at the base of the metathorax and in hav- 

 ing only Ji-jointed maxillary palpi. The joints of the antennab are also 

 much longer than any other Diapriid genus. 



H. pulchripeiinis, sp. nov. 



$, Length, about 4""". Black; antenme, legs, and abdonu'u ferru- 

 ginous, the latter dusky at apex. Head opaque, tinely shagreened; 

 cheeks, prothorax, metathorax, and the petiole beneath, woolly. Au- 

 teniue 13-jointed, longer than the body ; the first flagellar joint about as 

 long as the scape, tlie second very slightly shorter, the following about 

 equal, all cylindrical. Thorax smooth, shining, bisulcate; scutellum 

 with two large deep fovetie at base; metathorax armed at base with 

 a curved acute spine. Wings hyaline, with a large smoky blotch ex- 

 tending from near the base to one- third the length of the wing, having 

 4 rays; one ray extends to the stigma and another beyond this to the 

 costal margin, and opposite these are the other two which extend to the 

 hind margin; there is also a smoky spot at the apex of the wing. 



Habitat. — Bogota. 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



HEMILEXIS E(")rstcr. 



Hyiu. Stud., II, p. 12o (1S56). 



Entomacis Forst. loc. cit., p. 12L 



GJjiphidopria Hal. Nat. Hist. Rev., iv, p. 172 (1857). 



Head transverse or subglobose, the occiput rounded, tlie cheeks 

 bare; ocelli 3 small, in a triangle; eyes bare. 



AntenuiB inserted on a slight frontal prominence, 13-jointed in b: ii 

 sexes; in 9 submoniliform, incrassated toward tips or clavate; in c^ iili 

 form, the first and second iuniclar joints elongate, the second the shorter 

 and thicker, slightly curved, the following oval or oblong-oval. 



Maxillary palpi 5-jointed. 



Thorax ovoid, the prothorax produced into a little neck anteriorly, 

 scarcely visible from above; mesonotum short, rounded before with 

 two furrows, tlie furrows sometimes abbreviated anteriorly, but rarely 

 entirely wanting; scutellum with a nu:)derately deej) fovea at base; meta- 

 thorax short, subemarginate, the angles not acute. 



Front wings pubescent, strongly ciliated and oft<jn emarginate at apex; 



