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Type locality. — Jacksonville, Florida. 

 Type.—Qai. No. 25454, U.S.N.M. 

 Redescribed from the type specimen. 



7. LEPTACIS KUGICEPS (Ashmead). 



Plate 1, fig. 9. 

 Amblyaspis rufficeps Ashmead, Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 269. 



Male. — Of much the same appearance as the three preceding spe- 

 cies; head distinctly wider than the thorax; frons rugose, traversed 

 by numerous carinae, the latter interrupted medially below the ocelli; 

 vertex separated from the occiput by a high, sharp ridge; occiput 

 finely reticulate; antennae attenuate; hairs on the flagellum not as 

 long as the joints are wide ; thorax two-thirds as wide as long, slightly 

 higher than wide, polished, pubescent above; mesonotum pubescent 

 on either side of a short truncate lobe which touches the base of the 

 scutellum; notauli absent; scutellum short, wider than long (not 

 counting the spine which is highly elevated and extends to the base 

 of the first abdominal segment) ; the spine is as long as the rest of 

 scutellum and is nearly straight, parallel with the dorsal surface of 

 propodum; posterior face of the scutellum perpendicular, making a 

 right angle with the lower surface of the spine; abdomen as long as 

 the thorax, nearly twice as long as wide, elliptical; second tergite as 

 wide as long; polished; following segments narrow, subequal, the last 

 a little longer than any of the others; wings hyaline, extending nearly 

 the length of the abdomen past its apex, with cilia of moderate 

 length on their margins. Shining black; legs and antennae stramine- 

 ous; apical half of the flagellum brown. 



Type locality. — Washington, District of Columbia. 



Type.— Cfit. No. 25455, U.S.N.M. 



Redescribed from the type specimen. 



8. LEPTACIS PUNCTICEPS Ashmead. 



Leptacis puncticeps Ashmead Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 275. 



ifaZe.— Length 1 mm. Head distinctly less than twice as wide as 

 long, full behind the eyes, wider than the thorax, finely reticulate 

 (more strongly so on the occiput and cheeks) ; frons shining, faintly 

 reticulate; lateral ocelli nearly touching the eye margin; vertex 

 separated from the occiput by a rounded elevation; scape as long as 

 the following five joints united, a little thicker than the pedicel, not 

 strongly curved; pedicel twice as long as wide, piriform, strongly 

 narrowed basally.; third joint about half as long and less than half 

 as thick as the pedicel, twice as long as wide, as long as but narrower 

 than joint four; four less than twice as long as wide, narrower and 

 shorter than the pedicel; joints five and six subequal, one and one- 

 half times as long as wide, as long as but narrower than the fourth; 



