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sharply pointed, sixth tooth, small, but distinct, and situated midway 

 between the two large basal teeth; on the left femur is seen an ex- 

 tremely minute, black tubercle between the two large basal teeth and 

 immediately distad of the apical tooth a short, blunt, black tubercle; 

 the two large basal teeth are acute, the third less so, and the fourth 

 and fifth are blunt at apex; the posterior tibia; narrowly bordered 

 with black along the externo-ventral edge, and along the middle of 

 the dorsal edge there is an oblong reddish-brown spot ; tarsi with the 

 extreme apex dark brown. Abdomen conical, its extreme apex black, 

 reaching almost as far distad as the apices of the posterior femora, 

 its petiole short, only as long as wide. Wings hyaline with brown 

 veins, the marginal and post-marginal veins of nearly equal length, 

 each about four times longer than the stigmal vein. 



It is worthy of note that Ashmead says that the " eyes are large, 

 occupying nearly the whole sides of the head," but in the specimen 

 they are not more prominent and enlarged than in " f Hexasmicra 

 trinidadensis" Ashmead, " ? Hexasmicra brasiliensis" Ashmead, and 

 Ashmead's species of the genus Spilochalcis. Ashmead did not take 

 into consideration the irregularity in the dentition of the posterior 

 femora of the specimen here treated when naming it Pcntasmicra. 

 He also places Smicra carina Walker in Pciitosinicya. Walker in his 

 table does place it with those with five strong teeth on the hind 

 femora, but in his description of 5". ccrina he writes: "hind-femora 

 armed M-ith six teeth, five of which are large." 



Genus Hexasmicra etc. 



When Ashmead (p. 252) erected the genus Hexasmicra, he chose 

 as the type species Smicra {S)iiicra) transversa Walker, and on page 

 455 he referred with doubt to Hexasmicra two new species, f Hexa- 

 smicra trinidadensis Ashmead and F Hexasmicra brasiliensis Ash- 

 mead, each represented by a single specimen. The former is labeled 

 by Ashmead " Xanthosmicra trinidadensis Ashm. type." Hexasmicra 

 brasiliensis is so labeled, but without a question-mark and without 

 " Type" written on the label. This seems to show that Ashmead was 

 not quite satisfied with the generic position of the two species, and 

 intended probably to remove them from association with Walker's 

 dark, robust, and large species. Both of these two species of Ash- 



