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10. LEPTACIS LONGIPES (Ashmead). 



Plate 1, fig. 5. 



Amblyaspis longipes Ashmead, Can. Eat., vol. 19, 1887. p. 128. — Cresson Syn. 

 N. Amer. Hym., 1887, p. 249.— Ashmead, Bull. 45, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1893, 

 p. 270 (pi. 11, fig. 10, male). 



Male. — Length 1.60 mm. Robust; polished except for the parts 

 mentioned below; head less than twice as wide as long, deep behind 

 the eyes, the cheeks wide, obhque; frons, vertex, and occiput finely 

 shagreened ; thorax shaped much as in pallij)es, four-sevenths time as 

 long as wide, a Httle higher than wide, as wide as the head; mesonotum 

 convex above, finely shagreened, constructed posteriorly as in pallipes; 

 scutellum long, highl}^ elevated, the sides steep, the upper surface 

 practically straight; spine acuminate, projecting well beyond the base 

 of the first tergite, longer than the rest of the scutellum, seen from 

 the side gradually widening basally; legs very long and stout, of a 

 golden-yellow color, the tarsi stramineous; abdomen as long and as 

 wide as the thorax, two-thirds as wide as long, ovate, rounded posteri- 

 ori}"; first tergite less than twice as wide as long, pubescent only on the 

 sides, one-third as long as the second ; second tergite a little longer than 

 wide, rather strongly narrowed basally where there are two small 

 patches of silvery pubescence in the places assumed by foveae in Platy 

 gaster and Trichacis; second tergite and those following it with a nar- 

 row shagreened band along their distal margins; tergites three to 

 seven very short, the seventh scarcely shorter than sixth, faintly sha- 

 greened; wings hyaline, with the cilia matted, extending five-sixths 

 the length of the abdomen past its apex. Shining black, scape, legs, 

 and spine of scutellum, golden yellow; rest of antenna dark brown. 



Type locality. — Jacksonville, Florida. 



Type.—Cat. No. 25457, U.S.N.M. 



Redescribed from the type specimen. 



Ashmead's figure (pi. 11, fig. 10) is of no value. I do not know 

 where he got his figure of the female antenna since there was never 

 any female described. In this connection it may be well to say that 

 the only use that can be made of Ashmead's figures in his monograph 

 is to obtain some conception of the habitus of the various genera 

 described therein. The figures are not sufficienth^ accurate to be 

 useful in specific identification. 



11. LEPTACIS ASHMEADI, new name. 



Leptacis rugiceps Ashmead, Bull. 45, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 272, pi. 12, fig. 1, 

 female only. (Not (Aviblyaspis) Leptacis rugiceps Ashmead, same reference, 

 p. 269.) 



Female. — Length 1.20 mm. Moderately robust; head rather large 

 and thiok, a little wider than the thorax, its length to its width as 

 10 is to 17; frons roughened, transversely rugulose, with a median 



