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all the femora and first two pairs tibiae bright yellowish (the posterior 

 femora darker); last pair tibiae dark, deep reddish in reflected light; 

 forebasitarsi ^^ellow, last fom- joints and all joints of last two pairs 

 dark; antennae black above, yellow beneath; clypeus truncate in 

 front with a very narrow hairless apical edge; clypeus, and outer 

 posterior corners of propodeum silvery; considerable long brown hair 

 on thorax; clypeus 2.0 times as broad as long; middle interocular 

 distance 0.57 times the transfacial; upper interocular distance (60) 

 slightly longer than the lower (55); ratio of lengths of fu'st four anten- 

 nal joints is 30 : 12 :40 :40; lateral ocelli about 1.5 times as far from eyes 

 as from each other; wings hyaline, slightly yellowish, veins and stigma 

 yellowish; spurs of legs brownish; the basal triangle on subgenital 

 plate open to the apical 0.2; the transverse ridge on parameres with 

 its inner edge located about the middle of apical outer edge of volsellae, 

 sloping toward base. 



Length head and thorax 3.6 mm., abdomen 3.3 mm., length fore- 

 wings 6.0 mm., rear wings 4.3 mm.; length genitalia 0.66 mm., width 

 0.40 mm., length subgenital plate 0.73 mm., width 0.60 mm. 



Holotype male: Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Feb. 16, 

 1956, Fritz Plaumann (Townes). 



Paratypes: Following four paratypes from same locality as holo- 

 type: 1, Mar. 3, 1955 (RRD); 1, Feb. 13, 1956 (Townes); 1, Jan. 28, 

 1956 (RRD); 1, Nov. 28, 1956 (Townes); also, 1, Nova Teutonia, 

 Brazil, Apr. 9, 1952, Fritz Plaumann (Cal). 



74. Auplopus cordobensis, new species 



Figures 50, 51 



Holotype male. Front, vertex, and thorax with ground color 

 black, thorax with beautiful violet to piu"ple reflection; clypeus and 

 face completely white, the anterior orbits white about half way from 

 base of antennae to foreocellus, the white stripe pointed at apex, 

 triangular-shaped with the base of triangle white from eyes to base 

 of antennae; mouth parts and mandibles of same color (yellowish 

 white) except extreme base of mandibles are reddish; antennae yellow 

 below, brown above; fu"st two segments of abdomen completely 

 yellowish and most of third but mottled with black; the apex of the 

 remainder of tergites yellowish on apical edge; legs completely yel- 

 lowish beginning with the coxae, except the last two pairs of tarsi are 

 darker, reddish; face and clypeus silvery sericeous and most of thorax 

 slightly sericeous; propodeum with much upright white hair, but little 

 upright hair on rest of body; clypeus truncate in front with a wide 

 transparent, hairless margin, 2.0 times as broad as long; head 1.3 as 

 broad as long; upper interocular distance (70) is equal to the lower; 

 middle interocular distance is 0.66 the transfacial distance; ratio of 



