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Labeled, "reared from Anihonomus vestitus, July 1911, C. H. T. 

 Towiisend, No. 795 °3/." 



Paratopotypes labeled, "from infested squares and new boUs, 

 C. H. T. Townsend, No. 795." 



ZELOMORPHIDEA, new subgenus. 



This is a subgenus of Zelomovpha Ashmead from wliich it differs 

 chiefly in the absence of a more or less sinuous foveolate furrow on 

 the mesopleurse and by the second dorsal segment being longer than 

 wide. Probably will include all South American species at present 

 included under Disoplirys Foerster. 



Type. — ZelomorpJia (Zelomorpliidea) melanota, new species. 



Female. — Length, 10 mm.; agrees with the original description of 

 Disoplirys opTitlialmica Szepligeti in the lower half of the face including 

 the malar space being mostly stramineous; in the dorsulum, scutel 

 and post scutel being mostly black or blackish; in the hind wings 

 being almost completely and miiformly brownish; in the liind femora 

 and tibise being more or less reddish and in the areola receiving thfc 

 costulse before the middle. 



Type-locality. — Sapucay, Paraguay. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14734, U.S.N.M. 



Labeled, "collected August 29, 1901." 



ZAMICRODUS, new genus. 



Malar line nearly two-thirds the length of the eye, malar space 

 prolonged downward and backward into an angulate process that has 

 its edges reflexed and its angle lower than the lower edge of the 

 clypens, episternum of the prothorax with a tubercle on each side, 

 pronotum produced on each side into a flattened angular crista, 

 pronotum mth its sidcus separated into four parts, each of wliich is 

 bounded by strong carinse, first dorsal abdominal segment virtually 

 twice as long as wide at apex. Otherwise practically as in BassiiS 

 Fabricius as represented by (Microdus) Bassus tumidulus (Nees). 



Type. — Zamicrodus sensilis, new species. 



ZAMICRODUS SENSILIS, new species. 



Male. — Length, 10.5 mm.; apparently related to Microdus ocTirosus 

 Szephgeti from the original description of which it differs in the fore 

 and mid legs, excepting onychium of mid legs which is blackish, being 

 stramineous throughout, in the hind coxge and hind trochanters being 

 concolorous \v4th the thorax, in the uniformly reddish hind femora, in 

 the basal two-thirds of hind tibise which is brownish, with the apical 

 tliird blacldsh, in the mostly yellowish wings with the fourth sixth 

 and apical sixth of the fore wings fuscous as is the apical third and a 

 large part of the margin of the hind wings; and in the second, third, 



