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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



vol. 59. 



TROPIDEUCOILA RUFIPES Ashmead. 



Tropideucoila rufipes Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 221 



(sine desc). 

 Tropideucoela rufipes Ashmead, Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, p. 61 (sine desc). — 



Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Das Tierreich, Lief. 24, 1910, p. 240. 



Female. — Black, antennae rufous, infuscated toward apex, legs 

 brownish. Head almost as broad as throax, polished, bare except 

 for a transverse pubescent line below each lateral ocellus: seen from 



in front facial line 0.92 

 transfacial with a notch 

 at vertex above median 

 ocellus, interocular line 

 0.44 transfacial and area 

 0.7 as broad as long, 

 malar space 0.36 eye 

 with a few striae to 

 mouth, eyes bare, an- 

 tennae arising above 

 middle of eyes, stout, 

 13-segmented, third 

 slightly shorter than 

 fourth, both tapering 

 slightly toward base, 5- 

 12 subequal, oblong- 

 oval, last scarcely longer 

 than preceding, 3-6 grad- 

 ually stouter, 7-10 about 

 1.6 times as long as 

 broad, slightly tapering 

 beyond 10; seen from 

 above head is transverse, 

 axial line 0.54 trans- 

 facial, cheeks margined 

 behind eyes. Pronotum 

 truncate, truncation margined, undulate above with two pubescent 

 spots on top, 0.7 as wide as head, sides areolate. Mesoscutum 

 broader than long, with five longitudinal carinae, the three dorsal 

 ones and the four broad shallow polished grooves being conspicuous 

 in top view, the median ridge is narrow and bare but abruptly 

 broadened at front and gradually enlarging slightly behind, parapsidal 

 ridges percurrent, almost parallel, bearing setigerous punctures, 

 lateral ridges bare and broader than median, a short groove over each 

 fore wing. Scutellum 0.9 as long as mesoscutum, cup large, high, 

 half as wide as disk, longer than broad, tapering in front into a 

 septum between the two large transverse pits; surface of cup bears 



Fig. 8.— Tkopideucoila rufipes Ashmead. 



