NEW SPIDER WASPS — DREISBACH 199 



width; pronotum transverse on posterior edge; wings almost hyaline 

 but definitely brownish. 



Length head and thorax 4.0 mm., abdomen 4.0 mm., foremngs 6.7 

 mm., rear wings 4.7 mm. 



Holotype female: Monson Valley, Tingo Maria, Peru, Nov. 16, 

 1954, E. I. Schlinger and E. S. Ross (Cal. Acad. Sci.). 



65. Auplopits punicens, new species 



Figures 44, 45 



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

 bluish with violet to purple reflection ; thorax greenish from mesonotum 

 to propodeum, pronotum, propodeum and sides of thorax with some 

 greenish but with brilliant purplish to violet iridescence; abdomen 

 shining bluish, violet and purple, pruinose in reflected light; clypeus, 

 face, sides of pronotum, parts of sides of thorax and outer posterior 

 corners of propodeum silvery pubescent (rather coarse and not very 

 dense); antennae a brownish black; coxae various shades of bluish and 

 purple in reflected light; trochanters black; all femora yellowish; 

 f oretibiae yellowish, last two pairs blackish with a purple tinge ; f ore- 

 basitarsi yellow in certain light, blackish in other light, last two pairs 

 black, spurs yellowish; mandibles with basal half black, apical half red- 

 dish, mouth parts yellowish; clypeus rounded in front with a hairless 

 shining rim, which is slightly reddish; clypeus 2.0 times as wide as 

 long, head a little more than 1.1 times as long as wide; interocular 

 distance in middle 0.51 times the transfacial; upper interocular dis- 

 tance (85) not quite the lower interocular (90); ratio of length of 

 fh'st four antennal joints is 40 :20 : 75 :65, thus second and third antennal 

 joint is equal to the upper interocular distance; the lateral ocelli as 

 far from each other as from eyes; pronotum transverse on posterior 

 border, just an indication of an angle ; head finely, minutely punctured, 

 the mesonotum with slightly larger punctures; wings hyaline, veins 

 and stigma yellow; pygidium smooth and shining, the last segment of 

 abdomen rather strongly hairy on sides and beneath. 



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

 8.6 mm., rear wing 6.6 mm. 



Holotype female: San Bernardino, Paraguay, Nov. 6 (USNM). 



Paratypes: 2, San Bernardino, Nov. 12, 1927, K. Fiebrig (USNM); 

 1, Amazonas, Santarem, W. Bates (Munich Mus.), same data as 

 above paratype (RRD). 



Allotype male. Clypeus white except a large white spot in middle; 

 face broadly white on inner orbits to opposite to base of antennae, 

 center white with a black streak on each side on inside of white of 

 inner orbits, front and vertex with faint greenish tint with faint 



