382 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 46. 



POLYAENIDEA PRETIOSA. new species. 



Type-locality. — Sapucay, Asuncion, Paraguay, December 2, 1904, 

 J. D. Anisits. 



Type. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Ferrmle. — Length 12.5 mm.; black and shining; face and clypeus 

 mostly, labrum entirely luteous, cheeks mostly luteous as is the front 

 nlong the eye margins, palpi yellowish with the apical joints rather 

 brownish, tip of fourth and most of fifth to thirteenth flagellar joints, 

 inclusive, yellowish, head including the mandibles more or less punc- 

 tured, region of the malar line rugulose or granular; pronotum on each 

 side of its upper and lower edge with a yellowish area, the upper edge 

 in addition with an angular production on each side from which there 

 descends a carina, propleurse yellow near the edge nearest the coxae, 

 the edge resting on the fore coxas stramineous, prescutum and scapulae 

 punctured especially anteriorly, the former with a large yellow spot 

 posteriorly, tegulae luteous internally stramineous externally, wings 

 with a brownish tinge, their veins mostly blaclcish, anterior edge of 

 the axillae ^^ellow except near the disk of the scutel which latter as 

 well as the posterior edge of the axillae are yellow, disk of the post 

 scutel and the posterior edge of the same yellow, pleurae with most of 

 the lower half and a spot on the upper edge yellow, mesostemum 

 yellow except laterally and down the middle, a spot under the liind 

 \\dngs and most of the metapleurae yellow, fore coxae yellow in front, 

 l:)rownisli stramineous behind, hind coxae and rest of legs mostly 

 brownish stramineous, fore and mid onychii blackish; propodeum with 

 a yellow stripe on each side involving the propodeal spines which are 

 directed outward, backward, and upward; abdomen reddish brown, 

 sheaths of the ovipositor approximately 4 mm. long. 



Allotype. — Essentially as in the type but with the ninth to thir- 

 teenth flagellar joints yellowish. 



POLYCYRTIDEA, new genus. 



Type. — Polycyrtidea gracilis, new species. 



Occipital carina meeting the carina bordering the posterior cavity 

 of the mouth, malar line approximately as long as the mandibles are 

 wide at the base; propodeum with only a basal carina and \vithout 

 spines; first, abdominal segment almost cylindrical, apparently six 

 times as long as wide at the apex. 



Agrees with Polycyrius Spinola in having a solitary spine on the 

 front, in the deep notauli and in the spiracles of the first, abdominal 

 segment being nearer to each other than to the apex but differs espe- 

 cially in tlie areolet being open. 



