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the intumescence back of the hind wing insertion and the metapleurse 

 mostly yellowish, the latter rather testaceous, wings brownish with 

 blackish veins and stigma, the latter with a pale streak, legs mostly 

 brownish stramineous, the fore coxae mostly yellomsh, all coxae with 

 a dorsal black stripe, the fore and mid onycliii mostly black; basal 

 propodeal area with a great, yellow, comma-like mark on each side, 

 the apical propodeal area with a broad yellow stripe on each side, 

 involving the prominent spines; dorsal, abdominal segments mar- 

 gined laterally and apically with a broad yellowish band, the lateral 

 margin of the second and third, dorsal segments with a yellowish 

 extension^toward the middle of these segments, ovipositor almost as 

 long as the abdomen. 



Genus POLYCRYTUS Spinola. 



Carina bordering the posterior cavity of the mouth neither highly 

 developed nor meeting to form a tubular cavity and not meeting the 

 occipital carina. 



THYMARIMORPHA, new genus. 



Type. — Thymarimorpha platygastra, new species. 



Recalls the genus Thymaris Foerster but is related to Anisitsia 

 Viereck from which it may be known by the postf ureal nervellus 

 which is not angulated, by the propodeum not being furrowed and by 

 the almost equilateral areolet. 



THYMARIMORPHA PLATYGASTRA, new species. 



Type-locality. — C. Olympo, Asuncion, Paraguay, ll-12-'04, J. D. 

 Anisits. 



Type. — Konigliche Zoologische Museum, Berlin. 



Male. — Length 8.5 mm.; black, shining, and sculptured; face and 

 clypeus longitudinally striate, the latter subemarginate, mandibles 

 yellow with brownish tips, scape and pedicel mostly yellow, flagel 

 dark brown except the first joint which is yellowish at its base and 

 partly pale brown, palpi yellowish white; fore legs yellow except the 

 onychii and claws which are brownish and the empodii which are 

 blackish, mid coxae yellow, hind coxae pale brownish stramineous, 

 rest of legs missing, notauli represented by an area of transverse 

 striae on each side of the dorsulum, tegulte yellow basally, apically 

 almost colorless with a stramineous tinge, wings pale brown, almost 

 colorless, except the tips which are conspicuously infumated, veins 

 more or less dark brown; propodeum with poorly defined carinas, 

 the basal area almost crowded out by the areola which latter is rather 

 coffin shaped, its posterior boundaries, however, becoming confused 

 with the sculpture of the propodeum; abdomen brownish stramine- 

 ous, the second, ultimate, and penultimate, dorsal segments more or 

 less blackish. 



