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EPIOPELMIDEA, new genus. 



Type. — Epiopelmidea erythrogastra, new species. 



Related to Hepiopelmus Wesmael from which it differs especially 

 m the Joppa-like head, in the slenderer teeth, of the mandibles, in 

 the apical joint of the hind tarsi not being distinctly longer than the 

 third but almost exactly as long as the same, in the virtual absence 

 of the apical, propodeal carina, in the absence of a juxtacoxal area 

 and in the longer hypopygium which almost extends as far as the 

 pygidium. Habitus as in Patroclus Cresson. 



EPIOPELMIDEA ERYTHROGASTRA, new species. 



Type-locality. — Villa Morra, Asuncion, Paraguay, October 1, 1905, 

 December 19, 1904, J. D. Anisits. 



Type. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Female. — Length, 12.5 mm.; black, shming and punctured; orbits 

 excepting the malar space, basal half of mandibles, lateral edge of 

 clypeus and more or less of the sixth to thirteenth jomts of the flagel 

 yellowish, almost all of the pale joints of the flagel blackish at apex 

 beneath, labial palpi blackish, maxillary palpi stramineous; pro- 

 notum with a yellow margin along its upper and lower edg^s, prop- 

 leurse with a submarginal yellowish stripe, fore and mid legs vdih. their 

 cox« and proximal trochanters mostly yellow and strammeous, rest 

 of these legs stramineous except the third to fifth tarsal jomts which 

 are mostly blackish, tegulse and \\Tng bases more or less, a longitudinal 

 stripe on each side of the mesonotum, disk of scutel and postscutel, 

 intumescence beneath the forewings and back of the mesopleurse 

 and two almost confluent large marks on the mesopleurse yellow, 

 wings brownish ^vith blackish veins and a strammeous stigma, meta- 

 pleurse mostly yellow, hind legs reddish strammeous, except for a 

 large yellow mark on their coxae above, their tibiae and metatarsi 

 which are mostly stramineous and the rest of their tarsi which are 

 blacldsh; abdomen reddish except for the yellow apical half of the 

 postpetiole, ovipositor hardly exserted. 



JOPPOCRYPTUS, new genus. 



Type.—Joppocryptus egregius, new species. 



This is a Cryptine, with a Joppine habitus, that differs from 

 Cry ptopteryx Ashmend, to which it bears some resemblance, especially 

 as follows: Cheeks much wider near the mandibles than opposite the 

 middle of the eyes, clypeus planate, its anterior margin truncate, 

 mandibles falcate, deeply cleft, the outer tooth distinctly longer than 

 the inner tooth, occipital carina joining the carina bordering the 



