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violaceous; mouth parts yellow, middle half of apex of clypeus and 

 apex of mandibles reddish; coaxae black with their apices yellowish; 

 trochanters rufous, suffused with black, especially the last pair; femora 

 rufous with a blackish (slightly purplish) stripe on posterior sui'face; 

 all tibiae and metatarsal joints yellowish; the other joints of tarsi 

 yellowish, except last joint of first pair and last two joints of last two 

 pairs are black; the face, front and most of thorax covered with ap- 

 pressed, rather dense (in some places), yellowish (golden) pubescence, 

 and some light-colored upright hair; antennae yellowish beneath, 

 brown to blackish above; clypeus covered with rather long appressed 

 forward-du-ected hau's which are more silvery than yellowish; clypeus 

 strongly arched in middle and not quite 2.0 as broad as long, extending 

 under eyes and with the apical margin not quite 0.8 as long as base 

 as the sides slope toward center; apical margin slightly convex; lower 

 interocular distance (100) equal to the upper; the middle interocular 

 distance 0.57 the transfacial; head 1.1 as broad as long; ratio of 

 lengths of first four an tennal joints is 55:20:80:65, thus the second 

 and third joint equal to vertex width; pronotum very short, slightly 

 concave on posterior margin; metapostnotum about 0.5 as wide as 

 postscutellum and finely transversely ridged; wings strongly yellowish 

 iridescent with traces of greenish in reflected hght, almost hyaline 

 (sUghtly yellowish) in incident light, veins and stigma yellow; vena- 

 tion normal. 



Length of head and thorax 5.3 mm., abdomen 5.3 mm., forewings 

 9.9 mm., rear wings 7.7 mm. 



Holotype female: Nova Teutonia, Brazil, Sept. 22, 1944, Fritz 

 Plaumann (Cal.). 



Paratypes: 1, same data as holotype except date Nov. 26, 1944 

 (RRD); 1, same data except date Mar. 8, 1942 (Cal.). 



77. Auplopus ater, new species 



Figures 72, 73 



Holotype male. Front and vertex almost black, slightly shining 

 and with metallic tint; ventral surface of thorax almost same color; 

 pronotum, scutellum, and postscutellum about same color as head; 

 mesonotum and propodeum and sides of thorax a greenish color, 

 faintly shining; abdomen blackish with faint iridescence, the apex of 

 all tergites slightly rufous and last tergite white; forecoxae com- 

 pletely yellowish, the second pair dark rufous mottled with black 

 and the third pair blackish; first pair trochanters yellowish the last 

 two pairs black and slightly yellowish; all femora and tibiae yellow; 

 only last two joints of foretarsi dark but almost all of last two pairs 

 dark; antennae rufous below, black above; sides of clypeus (about 

 0.6), the sides of face to the antennae and slightly above, the mouth 



