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mouth where the latter meets the hind edge of the base of the 

 mandibles, face somewhat impressed between the scrobes, the im- 

 pression bordered by a more or less well developed carina, antennae 

 spindle shaped in outline, flattened on one side beyond the middle; 

 notauli represented by rugse, scutel carmate laterally almost to the 

 apex; propodeum with median and lateral, longitudinal carinas, well 

 separated from the metapleurse by a carina, spiracularea and second 

 pleural areas confluent, area dentipara and the third lateral areae con- 

 fluent, petiolarea nearly three times as long as the areola, juxtacoxal 

 area outlined; spiracles of first abdominal segment nearer to the 

 apex than to each other, second segment with yellowish gastrocoelae 

 that are about as far from each other as from the base of the seg- 

 ment, thyridia present on the second segment. 



In view of the evident confluence of characters found in the Ich- 

 neumoninae with characters found in the Cryptinae that is shown by 

 this genus it may become necessary to assign it to a new tribe in the 

 Cryptinae. 



JOPPOCRYPTUS EGREGIUS, new species. 



Type-locality. — Villa Morra, Asuncion, Paraguay, February 12, 

 1905. 



Type. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Female. — Length, 9 mm.; brownish stramineous and shining; 

 head black except as follows: Beveled area of the face below the 

 scrobes and the portion of the face adjoining the clypeus brownish 

 to brownish stramineous, clypeus, malar space and lower end of cheeks 

 stramineous, mandibles yellowish except for the blackish tooth and 

 tips, palpi stramineous, joints of the flagel with the apical half of the 

 eighth, the nmth to thirteenth, inclusive, entirely or almost entirely 

 and the fourteenth to seventeenth inclusive, beneath, yellowish white, 

 front with a yello\vish margin bordering each eye ; hind femora black- 

 ish, hind tarsi yellowish except for the onychii which like the onychii 

 of the other legs are more or less blackish, rest of tarsi and all the 

 tibias paler than the thorax, rather stramineous, wings transparent 

 with a brownish tinge, stigma stramineous, veins blackish; propodeal 

 spines prominent, the propodeum reticulately sculptured ; abdomen 

 mostly sericeous and rather punctately sculptured, its petiole brown- 

 ish translucent except for the black tip, postpetiole smooth and pol- 

 ished except for its apical corners which are punctured and black 

 except for an apical stramineous edge, thyridia stramineous, third to 

 seventh segments inclusive, with an apical yellow edge, second and 

 third ventral segments yellowish, ovipositor longer than the first, 

 abdominal segment, exserted portion of the sheaths of the ovipositor 

 nearly as long as the fourth, djorsal, abdominal segment. 



