NEW SPIDER WASPS — DREISBACH 197 



62. Aiiplopiis pratens, new species 



Holotype female: Mandibles (except tips, reddish), clypeus, and 

 face black; front and vertex dull green with very fine, dense punctures; 

 thorax a brilliant shining green with punctures on mesonotum larger 

 than on head; abdomen black, shining in reflected light, and a slight 

 tinge of color, pygidium smooth and shining; all femora, first two pairs 

 of tibiae between rufous and black; last fom- joints of foretarsi and all 

 joints of last two pairs, black; coxae and trochanters black, with the 

 latter yellowish at tip; antennae black above, dull yellomsh beneath; 

 clypeus, face, and the outer posterior corners of propodeum rather 

 densely, silvery pubescent; few long hairs on body except at apex of 

 cl^^peus, under head and more strongly on propodeum, and a few 

 scattered ones on ventral segments; clypeus almost truncate in front, 

 2.0 times as wide as long; upper interocular distance (90) about 0.9 

 of the lower; head 1.3 times as long as wide; middle interocular distance 

 0.60 the transfacial distance; ratio of lengths of fu^st four antennal 

 joints is 45:20:70:55, thus the second and third antennal joints equal 

 the vertex width; wings hyaline, the second intercubital vein meets 

 third cubital cell at basal 0.36; pronotum very slightly angular on 

 posterior border and the propodeum has fine, transverse striae on 

 dorsal surface. 



Length head and thorax 5.3 mm., abdomen 5.0 mm., forewing 9.3 

 mm., rear wing 6.6 mm. 



Holotype female: Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Feb. 23, 

 1956, Fritz Plaumann (Townes). 



Paratypes: 2, Apr. 4, 1951, Mar. 7, 1951 (Cal.); 2, Apr. 7, 1951 

 (RRD) (USNM). 



63. Anplopiis aurariiis, new species 



Holotype female. Basal half of mandibles and clypeus (except 

 extreme apical tip reflects reddish) black, apical half mandibles red- 

 dish; rest of head a dull faint greenish; pronotum, sides of thorax and 

 all of propodeum bright greenish ; the mesonotum black, scutellum and 

 postscutellum dull gi'eenish about like head; abdomen black, shining 

 in reflected hght, through the very fine, dense, yeUowish pubescence; 

 pygidium smooth shining; the clypeus, face, sides of pronotum, the 

 shoulders of pronotum, the sides of thorax, the propodeum across the 

 apex, the apical sides of thorax, and ventral surface of forecoxae, 

 covered with a more or less dense, golden tinted, prostrate pubescence; 

 this pubescence gives a beautiful yellowish (almost golden) glistening 

 appearance to the whole body in reflected hght; all the legs starting with 

 trochanters a bright shining reddish yellow, except the last two joints 

 of the fii'st two pairs of legs are black (the tarsal joint of last pair 



