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segments black and shaggy with coarse whitish hairs, the ventral 

 segments stramineous and shaggy in much the same way as the 

 dorsal segments. 



CRYPTOPHION, new genus. 



Type. — Cryptophion strandi, new species. 



Clypeus with a transverse carina, not at all separated from the face, 

 malar Hne nearly as long as the mandibles arc wide at base, occiput not 

 extending above the hind edge of the eye as seen from the side, hind 

 ocelh apparently a little nearer to each other than to the occipital 

 carina, eyes subemarginate, almost parallel, slightly converging below; 

 presternum produced into a shelfUke process supporting the head, ante- 

 rior coxae almost cubical, epicnemia not furcate, notauh wanting, scutel 

 laterally carinate nearly to the middle; hind legs decidedly longer 

 than the mid or fore legs, their coxae p3Tiform, their tibige nearly 

 twice as long as their metatarsi, longer spur fully two-tliirds as long 

 as their metatarsi, third tarsal joint about two-thirds the length of 

 the second, fourth about two-thirds the length of the third, fifth dis- 

 tinctly though not much longer than the fourth, their claws angulate 

 at base, nervulus almost interstitial, recurrent vein interstitial with 

 the second transverse cubitus, areolet petiolate, forming an equilat- 

 eral triangle, nervellus postf ureal, not broken; propodeum channeled, 

 biangulate, its spiracles approximately three times as long as wide at 

 the middle of the upper third; abdomen depressed to the end of the 

 second segment, compressed beyond, apex of abdomen truncate, ovi- 

 positor almost as long as the truncature. 



This is a transition genus between Cryptinae and Ophioninae. Ster- 

 nauli complete, midulate and foveolate as in some Cryptinae; propo- 

 deum at most not attaining the end of the basal third of the hind 

 coxae; first abdominal segment geniculate, its spiracles nearer to the 

 apex than to each other, petiole depressed, ^^^der than thick dorso- 

 ventrally. Habitus as in Campoplegini. This genus probably will 

 eventually represent a new tribe. 



CRYPTOPmON STRANDI, new species. 



Type-locality. — Asuncion, Paraguay, ViUa Morra, November 9, 

 1905, J. D. Anisits. 



Type. — Kongliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Female. — Length 6.5 mm. ; black, shining, covered with pale golden 

 pubescence, mostly rugoso-purctate, rugose or recticulate; antennae 

 brownish, mandibles yellowish with reddish brown tips, palpi strami- 

 neous; shelf -like process of the presternum stramineous, fore and mid 

 legs lemon yellow excepting their onychii which are brownish and the 

 pectinate claws and empodii which are blackish, the collar-like flange 

 of the pronotum stramineous, tegulae and wing bases yellowish, wings 



