NEW SPIDER WASPS — DREISBACH 163 



Holotype female: Yepocapa, Guatemala, April 1948, H. T. Dalmat 

 (USNM). 



16. Auplopus aquilus, new species 



Figure 75 



Holotype female. Clypeus and rest of head dull greenish color 

 with faint pm-ple reflection; dorsal sm-face of thorax, including pro- 

 podemn, almost black, only very faint greenish color in places, but 

 with a faint purplish cast all over, the sides plainly blue greenish 

 with the same faint purple reflection; abdomen black with beautiful 

 purple and violet iridescence shining through the fine, dense, pruinose 

 pubescence; antennae yellowish underneath, brown above; coxae and 

 trochanters with strong violet uidescence; all femora and first two 

 pairs of tibiae yellow, posterior tibiae dark with faint pm-ple reflection; 

 basal joint foretibiae yellow, the other joints and the other tarsi 

 dark; apex of clypeus and apex of mandibles reddish, mouth parts 

 dull yellowish; clypeus normal, twice as broad as long, with a rather 

 broad, hairless, shining rim (reddish); head 1.2 as broad as long; 

 ratio of length of thkd and fom-th antenna! joints is 14:12; upper 

 interocular distance (15) not quite 0.9 the lower; foreocellus the 

 largest, the laterals 1.5 as far from eyes as from each other; pos- 

 terior orbits and temples evanescent; wings hyaline, veins, stigma, 

 and tegula yellowish; propodeum with a central longitudinal furrow, 

 the sm'face each side with fine transverse ridges; longer spur of pos- 

 terior tibiae two thu'ds as long as its metatarsal joint; fii'st recurrent 

 vein meets first cubital cell in center, the second meets third cubital 

 cell at basal fourth; the basal veins in fore wings disjointed a distance 

 of about one haK length of transverse vein, in rear wings the sub- 

 discoidal basad of cubitus about the same length; wings hyaline, 

 glistening in reflected light with spots of green reflection. 



Length head and thorax 4.6 mm., abdomen 5.0 mm., foremngs 7.5 

 mm,, rear wings 5.3 mm. 



Holotype female: Cuba, at light in hold, Aug. 5, 1935, Baltimore 

 3541 (USNM). 



Paratypes: 1, on banana debris from Nicaragua, New Orleans, 

 13116 (USNM); 1, Mexico, on banana trash, Dec. 11, 1935, New 

 Orleans, 14832 (USNM); 1, on banana debris from Mexico, Oct. 11, 1934, 

 New Orleans, 10195, M. S. Mirinian (USNM). 



17. Auplopus incognitus (Smith) 



Female. Head, thorax and abdomen completely black, except for 

 a very narrow yellow line on inner orbits just opposite base of anten- 

 nae; anterior coxae black, last two pau's bright shining, reddish; 



