NEW SPIDER WASPS — DREISBACH 161 



Holotype female: La Campana, Panama, January-March 1938, 

 fruit fly trap, Jas. Zetek no. 4104 (UNSM). 



13. Auplopus eariniis, new species 



Holotj'pe female. Head and thorax green and bluish green with 

 purple reflection, abdomen blackish with blue and green reflection, 

 shining; coxae and trochanters dark with greenish color and purple 

 reflection; forefemora dark on basal third, last two pairs dark on about 

 basal fifth, the rest of femora, reddish yellow, last pair wdth dark 

 knees; foretibiae only, yellowish, last two pairs and all tarsi dark; 

 spur of foretibiae yellow, last two pairs color of tarsi; last pair tibiae 

 tend to a dark reddish color in certain light with the dorsal surface 

 with purple reflection; cl^^peus, face, sides of thorax, and sides of 

 propodeum with dense, prostrate, silvery pubescence; body rather 

 hairy especially the propodeum which has long white hair; mouth parts 

 yellowish; shape of clj^peus as usual, a raised rim on apex, surface 

 punctured, 1.67 as broad as long; upper interocular distance (19) 

 equal to the lower; head 0.9 as long as broad; ratio of length of thu'd 

 and fourth antennal joints is 16:13; first antenna! joint whitish below, 

 remaining joints j^ellow below, all black above; foreocellus the largest, 

 the laterals 1.25 as far from eyes as each other; a faint yellowish line 

 on inner orbits opposite base of antennae; wings slightly brownish, 

 veins and stigma dark; mcsonotum finely punctm^ed, front aciculate; 

 abdomen w4th posterior edge of tergites 2 to 5 slightly reddish and with 

 a different sheen than rest of segment; longer spur of posterior tibiae 

 0.5 as long as its metatarsal joint. 



Length head and thorax 6.6 mm., abdomen 4.3 mm., forewing 8.6 

 mm., rear wing 6.6 mm. 



Holotype female: Rio Trinidad, Panama, Sept. 3, 1912, A. Busck 

 P-5 (USNM). 



14. Auplopus grossus, new species 



Holotype female. Clypeus and face black (completely covered by 

 dull whitish pubescence), front and vertex a dull green, with purple 

 reflection; thorax a dull green with deep purple reflection on dorsal 

 surface, the sides and propodeum with bright shining green, with 

 less purple reflection; abdomen dark with some light greenish re- 

 flection in certain light, but this color almost obscured by the brilliant 

 shining violet-pm"ple reflection; the sides of thorax and propodeum 

 covered by the dull white, rather coarse, pubescence of the clypeus 

 and face; antennae wholly black, the apex of joints larger than the 

 base giving a knobby appearance at the juncture of the joints; coxae 

 black, strongly greenish, trochanters black; all femora reddish yellow. 



