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POLYCYRTIDEA GRACILIS, new species. 



Type-locality. — C. Laureles, Asuncion, Paraguay, Jan. 27, 1906, 

 J. D. Anisits. 



Tijpe. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Female. — Length 11 mm.; head mostly yellow, its front, vertex, 

 and occiput mostly black, frontal spine rather blunt and black, scape 

 brownish, yellow beneath, pedicel brownish with a yellow mark above, 

 fifth to fourteenth flagellar joints testaceous, rest of the flagel dark 

 brown to blackish, tips of the mandibles blackish, palpi yellowish; 

 pronotum with its upper edge produced on each side into a blunt 

 process, this same edge as well as the lower edge with a yellow bor- 

 der that is medially interrupted, tubercles yellow, fore coxae and tro- 

 chanters and the fore femora beneath yellow, rest of fore legs brown- 

 ish stramineous except the onychii which are blackish, prescutum 

 with a yellow spot on each side, scapulae with a yellow border ante- 

 riorly and internally, mesopleuras with four yellow spots, the upper- 

 most two being united, tegulse yellow with a stramineous outer edge, 

 scutel and upper edge of axillae mostly yellow as are the metapleurae, 

 elsewhere the thorax is mostly black, mid legs with the same color 

 scheme as the fore legs, hind legs reddish brown excepting the coxae 

 which are yellow and black, the yellow proximal trochanters, the 

 brown distal trochanters, the blackish tips of the tibiae and the tarsi 

 which excepting the blackish onychii are whitish; propodeum with a 

 yellow arch the sides of wliich are partly welts and lateral, low pro- 

 tuberances; abdominal segments brownish or blackish with broad 

 yellow borders, the first segment excepted, which is mostly yellow 

 with the apical half discally mostly blackish; sheatlis of the ovipositor 

 1.5 mm. long. 



POLYCYRTIMORPHA, new genus. 



Type. — PolycyrtimorpJia amoenus, new species. 



Related to Polycyrtus Spinola from which it difi'ers chiefly in the 

 occipital cari-na meeting the carina bordering the posterior cavity of 

 the mouth. 



POLYCYRTIMORPHA AMOENUS, new species. 



Type-locality. — Villa Morra, Asuncion, Paraguay, 10-4-04, J. D. 

 Anisits. 



Type. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Female. — Length 15 mm.; black and polished; face, clypeus, 

 labrum, mandibles, malar space, lower half of cheeks, lower half of 

 occiput, orbital margin, palpi and fifth to thirteenth flagellar joints 

 inclusive mostly yellow; upper and lower edge of the pronotum with 

 a yellow margin, propleurse, mesopleurae, and mesosternum mostly 

 yellow, tegulae, wing bases, edges of the axillae, posterior half of the 

 disk of the scutel, disk of the postscutel, the hind edge of the latter, 



