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the scutellar fovea and its arms extending forward on the lateral 

 lobes and narrowly confluent medially with a pyriform spot on 

 scutellum; a small spot on postscutellum ; a large spot on each side 

 of propodeum at base; tegulae; an^oblique band in the mesopleural 

 scrobe, a small spot in prepectus, and the entire sternum and lower 

 pleurum ; abdomen black, the tergites broadly yellow at apex, venter 

 entirely yellow. Scape and pedicel black above, yellow below; 

 flagellum fuscous, paler at base and below, flagellar joints 18-22 

 yellow; legs yellow; front and middle femora each with a piceous 

 stripe above, middle tibia with a more or less distinct dorsal stripe; 

 hind coxa black at base above and below, and with a dash of black on 

 the outer side at apex; basal joint of trochanter black; femur with 

 a piceous stripe on either side, tibia blackish with a broad yellow 

 annulus at middle, calcaria yellow, tarsus fuscous except basal half 

 of first joint; wings hyaline, venation blackish. 



Type locality. — Cano Saddle, Gatun Lake, Panama. 



Type.—U.S.'^M. no. 50624. 



One female taken by E. C. Shannon, May 8, 1923. 



Figure 3.' — Brachycyrtus ooulatus, new species : a. Head ; b, propodeum. 

 BRACHYCYRTUS OCULATUS. new species 



Figure 3 



Superficially very similar to convercfen», with which it agrees 

 almost exactly in color pattern; but remarkably distinct from that 

 species in the form and detail characters of the head. 



Feinale- — Length 7.0 mm; antenna 7.0 mm; ovipositor sheath 1.5 

 mm. Differs from the above description of coyivergens only as fol- 

 lows: Head not so thick, temples virtually flat and less strongly 

 oblique; ocellar triangle more strongly transverse, the postocellar 

 line about three times as long as lateral ocellar line ; head in front 

 view very strongly transversely oval, the eyes very large and com- 

 prising distinctly more than two-thirds of the total width ; eyes not 

 conspicuously convergent below, the face, although narrower than 

 the f rons, with its sides parallel, distinctly longer than broad ; malar 

 space nearly obliterated ; antenna 35-jointed ; mesoscutum more 



