THE FAMILY EUCHARIDAE — GAHAF 445 



Male. — Not seen. 



Remarks. — Redescribed from the type, a female from San Miguel, 

 Hidalgo, Mexico, in the collection of Dr. W. M. Mann. According 

 to the original description the type was taken in a nest of Pheidole 

 vasliti var. acolhua Wheeler. A single female from the C. F. Baker 

 collection agrees with the above description except that it is somewhat 

 smaller and nearly uniformly bright metallic green in color with only 

 a very slight aeneous tinge on dorsum of thorax. Baker's notebook 

 shows this specimen to have been swept from alfalfa at Tucson, Ariz., 

 April 11, 1896, by Dr. R. C. Kinze. 



ORASEMA VIOLACEA Ashmead 



Orasema violacea Ashmead, Ent. Amer., vol. 3, p. 187, 1888. 



This species is strongly and irregularly rugose, without any alveo- 

 late areas. The head is a little broader than the thorax, nearly uni- 

 formly rugosely sculptured, concave posteriorly, with the temples 

 strongly receding. The lateral ocelli are a little less than twice their 

 own diameter from the eye margin and a little farther from each 

 other than from the eye. 



Eyes obviously a little longer than malar space, the latter without 

 a longitudinal depression; clypeus broader than long, uniformly 

 rugulose, its anterior margin straight; supraclypeal area fully as 

 broad as long, sculptured like clypeus and separated from it by a 

 deep transverse groove ; clypeal f oveae deep. Antennal scape a little 

 thickened, subcylindrical, not reaching to level of front ocellus ; pedi- 

 cel nearly globular; funicle joints a little thicker than pedicel, the 

 first joint about twice as long as broad, second about two-thirds as 

 long as first, following funicle joints subquadrate; club obscurely 

 3-jointed and a little longer than last two funicle joints. Pronotum 

 behind head weakly rugulose; remainder of thorax laterally as well 

 as dorsally strongly sculptured, the prescutum and scapulae poste- 

 riorly, axillae dorsally and scutellum in front of cross furrow more 

 coarsely rugose than elsewhere; scutellum behind the cross furrow 

 strongly sculptured but not quite so strongly as before it ; propodeum 

 nearly uniformly rugoso-punctate, without lateral folds and without 

 a median carina, the spiracular sulci complete. Forewing sparsely 

 ciliated basally, closely ciliated beyond apex of submarginal vein; 

 stigmal vein a little longer than broad; postmarginal vein more 

 slender than marginal and approximately^ one-half as long as mar- 

 ginal. Abdominal petiole about as long as hind coaxe, about one and 

 one-half times as long as broad, rugosely sculptured; gaster smaller 

 than thorax, mostly smooth but the basal segment (second segment 

 of abdomen) weakly rugulose over a large part of its dorsum; second 

 sternite apparently smooth. 



