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Other; wings hyaline with a bright yellow reflection with gi'eenish 

 spots, veins and stigma dark; parameres rather slender for the genus; 

 the volsellae very broad, the emargination at apex narrow and shallow; 

 the subgenital plate with a narrow, long, strong triangle which becomes 

 closed about apical 0.25. 



Length head and thorax 4.6 mm., abdomen 4.3 mm., forewing 

 6.7 mm., rear wings 4.0 mm.; length genitalia 0.53 mm., width 0.29 

 mm., length subgenital plate 0.79 mm., width 0.40 mm, 



Holotype male: Nova Teutonia, Brazil, Apr. 9, 1952, Fritz 

 Plaumann (Cal.). 



79. Auplopus pygidialis, new species 



Holotype female. Head and thorax with a plainly noticeable 

 bluish green color with strong purplish reflection, the color not bright 

 shining; abdomen and all legs beginning with the coxae (except last 

 three tarsal joints of last two pairs) a bright reddish color; mouth 

 parts a light yellow, mandibles yellowish with a reddish apex; an- 

 tennae brown slightly yellowish beneath; clypeus rounded in front as 

 usual, slightly reddish in middle of front, 2.0 as broad as long; head 

 very broad, 1.3 as broad as long; eyes very broad, the middle inter- 

 ocular distance only 0.5 the transfacial; the lower interocular distance 

 (85) is 1.1 the upper (75); lateral ocelli slightly farther from ej^es than 

 each other; ratio of lengths of first four antenna! joints is 50 :20 : 90 :80; 

 wings hyaline with strong slightly yellow reflection with greenish tints, 

 stigma, and veins yellow; face, clypeus, and certain spots on thorax 

 silvery, shining pubescent. 



Length head and thorax 5.6 mm., abdomen 5.0 mm., forewing 

 9.2 mm., rear wing 6.6 mm. 



Holotype female: Amazon, W. Bates (Munich Mus.). 



80. Auplopus editorialis, new species 



Figure 75 



Holotype male. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, except for a 

 white streak on each side of face which extends on anterior orbits from 

 clypeus to the base of antennae, and for the first abdominal segment 

 which has a reddish tinge, especially on the sides; all coxae and 

 trochanters black except the first pair trochanters are slightly 

 rufous; first two pairs femora and tibiae rufous, except the femora 

 and tibiae of second pair are dark at base and apex; last femora 

 rufous but dark at base and apex; hind tibiae dark above, dark red 

 beneath; foretarsi yellowish, last two pairs dark; antennae dull 

 rufous; mouth parts brown, mandibles dark on basal half, the apical 

 half yellowish and then reddish on apex; silvery pubescence on face, 

 clypeus, and thorax; clypeus as usual on apical margin, 2.0 as broad 



