588 PROCEEDtNOS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.43. 



Para types from Japan are labeled " CMlo simplex, 1910; Kuwana 

 collector." 



CRYPTUROPSIS MICROGASTBR, new species. 



Type-locality. — Qulrigua, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 15028, U.S.N.M. 



Male. — ^Length 10 mm.; apparently related to Mesostenusf mega- 

 poda Cameron, as figured and described in Cameron's Biologia Cen- 

 trali Americana article, from which it may be distinguished as fol- 

 lows: Antennae not stout, not as long as the body, face not at all 

 transversely striated, center of vertex not aciculated, front black 

 with a yellow orbital margin continuous with the yellow ornamenta- 

 tion of the face, the latter not broken by black marks or lines; malar 

 space and lower half of cheeks yellow, occipital carina prominently 

 elevated near the malar space; mesonotum punctured, becoming 

 rugulose in the middle of the posterior half; metaplem-ae yellow, 

 broadly margined with black; propodeum mostly, rather reticulated, 

 black with the tubercles and area intmiately surrounding the tubercles 

 yellow; fore and mid coxae blackish at base, fore and mid femora 

 rather reddish stramineous above, onychii, and third and fourth 

 tarsal joints of all legs blackish, mid legs with the apex of the first 

 tarsal joint and the second tarsal joint also blackish, hind legs mostly 

 black except the coxse above, distal joint of trochanters and basal 

 third of hind tibise which are yellowish; first dorsal segment yellow 

 with a subapical transverse black band, the following dorsal segments 

 black with an apical yellow margin, abdomen ventraUy mostly yellow. 



Collected by Airs. W. P. Cockerell. 



CYMODUSOPSIS, new genus. 



Type oj the genus. — Cymodusopsis aristotelise, new species. 



Related to IdecMhis (Foerster) Ashmead, from which it differs, 

 especially in the hairy eyes that converge below in the female as m 

 Cymodusa Holmgren and by the absence of an areolet. 



CYMODUSOPSIS ARISTOTELI.ffi, new species. 



Type-locality. — Kirkwood, Alissouri. 



Type.— Co^t. No. 15029, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — ^Length 4.5 mm.; scape and pedicel yellowish beneath, 

 rest of antennae brownish to blackish; mandibles yellowish with 

 bro\vnish tips; palpi whitish; tegulse, base of wings, coxae and tro- 

 chanters of fore and mid legs, fore and mid tibiae above, most of fore 

 and mid tarsi, distal trochanters of hind legs and plica, yellowish* 

 hind coxas blackish; hind tibiae with the middle third yellowdsh; 

 hmd, proximal trochanters blackish, femora reddish stramineous, 

 hind metatarsi whitish at base, rest of legs mostly brownish; areola 

 and petiolarea confluent, costulae poorly developed; second dorsal 



