no. 2378. 



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hence the cup resembles a funnel. The axillae form prominent 

 slightly upturned teeth on either side of the two large pits making 

 the scutellum tridentate from above, the median being the longest 

 and formed of the cup and disk together and truncate at end. The 

 disk is margined postero-laterally and rugose-punctate. Propo- 

 deum as long as scutellum. Wing with closed marginal cell, pube- 

 scent, ciliate. Abdomen with a ring of hairs at base. 



TRISSODONTASPIS RUFIPES Ashmead. 



Trissodontaspis rufipes Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 222 (sine 

 desc); Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, p. 65 (sine desc.). — Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Das 

 Tierreich, Lief. 24, 1910, p. 102. 



Female. — Polished black, legs and abdomen red, the latter infus- 

 cated on median dorsal 

 line. Head broader than 

 thorax, with scattered 

 setigeous punctures on 

 face, facial and trans- 

 facial equal, interocular 

 space 0.47 transfacial and 

 area 0.8 as broad as high, 

 malar space 0.42 eye with 

 a very fine groove, eyes 

 with sparse microscopic 

 hairs, cheeks not mar- 

 gined, antennae arising 

 above middle of eyes, 

 13-segmented, flagellum 

 of long-cylindrical seg- 

 ments, third segment 

 slightly curved, smooth, 

 equal to 1 plus 2, slightly 

 shorter than 4, 6-8 long- 

 est, 9-12 decreasing, the 

 last 1.15 times preced- 

 ing. Pronotum truncate, 

 truncation 0.44 width of 

 head with deep angular 

 notch above, usual lateral 

 indentations and tuft of 

 pubescence on either side. Mesoscutum as broad as long, no parapsides 

 and but few punctures. Scutellum two-thirds as long as mesoscutum, 

 cup reaching to tip; two large smooth pits longer than broad at base 

 separated by a septum which runs back as a longitudinal ridge 

 becoming broader and bearing four punctures on its top and trun- 



Fig. 5.— Details of Trissodontaspis rufipes Ashmead. 



