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yellowish streak above the antennae, broadest above; clypeus of usual 

 shape, with a broad hairless rim, not quite 2.0 as broad as long; 

 head not quite as long as broad; eyes converging above, the upper 

 interocular distance (16) only 0.8 as long as the lower; ratio of lengths 

 of third and fourth antennal joints is 18:14; wings hyaline, veins 

 brown, stigma black, hardly blacker at apex. 



Length 12.0 mm. 



Holotype female: Barro Colorado Island, C.Z., January-March 

 1944, Zetek 5125 (USNM). 



Paratypes: 2, Barro Colorado Island, C.Z., January-March 1944, 

 Zetke 5125 (USNM) (RRD); 1, El Cermeno, Panama, May 1939, 

 Zetek 4435, lot no. 39-12208 (USNM); 1, La Providencia, Obispo, 

 Guatemala, J. M. Aldrich (USNM); 1, Barro Colorado Island, C. Z., 

 April-May 1942, J. Zetek, no. 4953 (USNM), 1, Tegucigalpa, Hon- 

 duras, Aug. 18, 1917, F. J. Dyer, 29792 (USNM); the last paratypo 

 does not have the yellow mark on inner orbits, 



25. Auplopus (jiiartiis, new species 



Holotype female. Clypeus black, a hardly noticeable green ; pronotmn 

 and scutellum black; abdomen black, no noticeable reflected colors; 

 antenna black except basal joint slightly yellowish below; clypeus 

 and face with prostrate silvery pubscence; the thorax with some 

 light-colored inclined hair which gives it a rough appearance; coxae 

 black, the forepair trochanters yellowish the last two pairs dark; 

 aU femora and foretibiae reddish yellow; forebasi tarsi dark reddish, 

 rest of joints, middle and hind tibiae and tarsi, dark; clypeus not quite 

 2.0 as broad as long; head 1.2 as broad as long; upper interocular 

 distance (19) a little more than 0.8 the lower; antennae lost beyond 

 third joint, length of third joint 20, on same scale as upper interocular 

 distance; wings hyaline, slightly broAvnish, veins dark brown. 



Length 11.9 mm. 



Holotype female: Costa Rica (USNM). 



26. Auplopus venetus, new species 



Holotype female. Clypeus black, head and thorax with bright 

 blue and purple colors; abdomen black in certain light with brilliant 

 shining blue and purple colors in reflected hght; antennae brownish 

 beneath, black above; wings hyaline; all femora rufous, except knees 

 of last two pairs are black; all tibiae, tarsi, and trochanters are black; 

 coxae brilliant blue; clypeus 2.0 as broad as long; head as long as 

 broad; ratio of lengths of third and fourth tarsal joints is 16:12; 

 upper interocular distance (17) slightly less than the lower; lateral 

 oceUi 1.5 as far from eyes as each other. 



Length 10.2 mm. 



