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as usual, 2.0 as broad as wide; upper interocular distance (18) slightly 

 less than lower; head 1.25 as broad as long; ratio of length of thu-d 

 antennal joint to fourth is 16:11; for ocellus slightly largest, laterals 

 2.0 as far from eyes as each other; wings hyaline, veins and stigma 

 black. 



Length head and thorax 4.6 mm., abdomen 6.0 mm., forewings 

 7.3 mm., rear wings 5.2 mm. 



Holotype female: Barro Colorado Island, C.Z., June 14, 1939, 

 Zetek 4453, lot no. 39-12571 (USNM). 



Paratype: 1, Mexico 2387, C. F. Baker (USNM). 



10. Auplopus panamensis, new species 



Holotype female. Head and thorax bright shining green, abdomen 

 shining black, somewhat pruinose; mouth parts and apex of mandibles 

 yellowish; antennae bright yellow underneath, dark reddish on dorsal 

 surface; coxae and trochanters greenish to purplish; all femora and 

 tibiae bright yellow; foretibiae same color except three apical joints, 

 basal joint of last two pairs reddish beneath, dark on dorsal sm*face, 

 rest all dark; a very narrow, obscure yellowish mark on anterior orbits 

 from base of antennal sockets about half way to foreocellus; clj^peus 

 and face, densely, silvery, silky, sericeous; a patch across apex of 

 propodeum of silvery pubescence, not quite so strong as on face; 

 thorax with scattered patches of silvery pubescence; clypeus as usual, 

 2.0 as broad as long; upper interocular distance (14) is equal to the 

 lower; ratio of length of third and fourth antennal joints is 12:10; 

 head 1.1 as broad as wide; foreocellus slightly larger than laterals, 

 the latter 1.5 as far from eyes as each other; wings hyaline, veins and 

 stigma light yellowish; basal veins in forewings, subdiscoidal and 

 cubital in rear wings disjointed about same amount, about one half 

 length of transverse; first recurrent meets second cubital cell about 

 middle, second meets third cubital cell beyond basal fourth. 



Length head and thorax 4.0 mm., abdomen 2.7 mm., fore wing 7.0 

 mm., rear wing 5.3 mm. 



Holotype female: Rio Trinidad, Panama, Mar. 16, 1912, A. Busck 

 (USNM). 



11. Auplopus sapphirus, new species 



Holotype female. Clypeus, face and front black, vertex greenish, 

 thorax green with blue and pm-ple reflection, abdomen black, shining, 

 with very faint bluish reflection; mouth parts brown; trochanters 

 blackish with some yellow, coxae black with faint bluish reflection; 

 all femora and tibiae reddish, as well as basitarsi of forelegs; rest of 



