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LAMPROCRYPTIDEA, new genus. 



Type. — Lamprocryptidea magnijica, new species. 



Agrees with the original description of Lamprocryptus Schmiede- 

 knecht except in the absence of notauli, in the scutel lacking sharp 

 keels, in the apical propodeal carina being represented by two blunt, 

 truncated processes, in the propodeal spiracles being oval, in the open 

 areolet with the outer side wanting, in the longer tibial spurs being 

 at least half as long as the hind metatarsi, and in the ovipositor 

 being hardly one-third the length of the abdomen. Hind coxae not 

 cylindrical nor nearly as long as the first segment of the abdomen; 

 spiracles of the first abdominal segment nearer to each other than 

 to the apex; front raised into a carinate swelling close to the junc- 

 tion of the front with the eyes. Regarded as a Mesostenine this 

 genus would be aUied to Crypturopsis Ashmead. 



LAMPROCRYPTIDEA MAGNIFICA, new species. 



Type-locality. — Asuncion, Paraguay, Villa Morra, February 12, 1905, 

 J. D. Anisits. 



Type. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Female. — Length, 15 mm.; black, rather dull, mostly shagreened; 

 palpi stramineous, fifth to eleventh joints, inclusive, of the flagel 

 entirely or mostly whitish on the upper side, head mostly punctured 

 or rugose ; wings transparent, brownish with blackish veins, fore and 

 mid legs, hind coxae, and trochanters mostly reddish stramineous, 

 excepting the onychii and their appendages which are mostly black- 

 ish; propodeum mostly reticulated, its processes brown, directed 

 backward, outward, and slightly upward; petiole castaneous, the 

 abdominal segments beyond the second with a sericeous bloom, the 

 sixth dorsal segment luteous at its apex, the seventh dorsal segment 

 with most of its upper aspect luteous, sheaths of the ovipositor 

 approximately as long as the first abdominal segment. 



MONOGONOCRYPTUS, new genus. 



Type. — Monogonocryptus diversicolor, new species. 



Appears to be related to Caenocryptus Thomson and certainly 

 related to Digonocryptus Viereck, from which it differs in the anterior 

 edge of the clypeus having but a single median tooth, in the trans- 

 verse elevation not being interrupted in the middle by an emargina- 

 tion, in the nervulus uniting with the media before the basal vein, 

 in the converging sides of the areola, in the presence of a complete 

 apical transverse carina, and in the spiracles of the first segment 

 being as near to or a little nearer to the apical edge as to each other. 



