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Described from one specimen collected in August. 

 Type.— Cat. No. 23650, U.S.N.M. Type male on tag and parts on 

 slide. 



Type locality. — Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (H. H. Smith, collector). 



Genus PROMIOMERA Ashmead. 



Promiomera Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 221 (April 6). — 

 Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Das Tierreich, lief. 24, 1910, pp. 104, 889. — Roh- 



wer and Fagan, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 373. 



Promiomoera Ashmead, Psyche, 

 vol. 10, 1903, pp. 63, 70 (April 

 15). — Sharp in Zool. Record, 

 vol. 40, Insects, p. 244. 



Genotype. — Promiomera fili- 

 cornis Ashmead. 



Head broader than thorax, 

 cheeks not margined, malar 

 space less than half eye, an- 

 tennae of male filiform, third 

 slightly bent and not over half 

 length of second, rest of flagel- 

 lar segments long, cylindrical. 

 Pronotum truncate. Mesoscu- 

 tum smooth and polished 

 without grooves or carinae. 

 Scutellum with two pits at 

 base, cup high and circular, 

 half as wide as disk and not 

 reaching back to its hind mar- 

 gin; disk areolate, rounded be- 

 hind. Mesopleura separated 

 from sternum by carina. Wing 

 with closed radial cell, pubes- 

 cent, ciliate. Abdomen with 



Fig. 7.— Details of Promiomera filicornis Ashmead. ring of hairs at base. 

 PROMIOMERA FILICORNIS Ashmead. 



Promiomera filicornis Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 221 (sine 

 desc). — Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Das Tierreich, Lief. 24, 1910, p. 104 (sine 

 desc.) 



Promiomoera filicornis Ashmead, Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, pp. 63, 70. 



Male. — Red, head infuscated. Head broader than thorax; seen 

 from in front facial line 0.8 transfacial, interocular space 0.44 trans- 

 facial and area 0.79 as broad as long, malar space 0.36 eye, face covered 

 with striae radiating from mouth upward except on a median V- 

 shaped polished area, eyes bare; seen from above axial line 0.54 

 transfacial, occiput slightly truncate but cheeks not margined, 

 antennae arising above middle of eyes, 13-segmented, flagellum 



