ashmkap: classikication of tiik (Halcid kijks 459 



2. Pronotiim not wholly black, rod at the sides !5 



Pionotum wholly black ; frontal spines distinct but not acute. 



Antenna?, except a streak on the scape beneath and at bai^e, and the legs, except knees, tibiia 

 and tarsi, black ; knees, tibia; and tarsi honey-yellow, the middle and hind tibiie faintly dusky 

 at the middle ; abdomen wholly black A. koebelei, sp. nov. 



3. Frontal spines very minute, nearly obsolete 4 



Frontal spines long, acute, twice longer than wide at base. 



Trochanters, knees, tips of tibiae and tarsi, honey-yellow : abdomen with a reddish spot on sides 

 of fourth and fifth segments A. brasiliensls, sp. nov. 



4. Face below antenna;, sides of iironotuni, sides of the fifth abdominal segment and mo.st of the sixth, 



red : trochanters, knees, tips of tilii;c iin<l the tarsi, honey-yellow ; antenna; rather short, black, 

 except the scape at base ; scutelliini and nietauotum sometimes reddish A. brevicornia, sp. nov. 



5. Frontal spines indi.stinct, nearly obsolete <> 



Frontal spines di.stinct A. spinifrons Walker. 



G. Wholly black, except the legs, the knees, tibiie and tar.si honey-yellow, the middle and hind tibia; 

 .sometimes dusky or fu.scous medially ; antennje long, the funicle joints long, contracted medially, 

 each funicle joint with two whorls of long sparse hairs A. brevicornig. 



AxiM.\ SPINIFRONS Walker. 



A.rliixi spliilfrovs Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1862, p. 374.— Kirby, 

 Journ. Linn. 8oc. Zool, XVIL, 1883, pi. 57 ; PI. 3, f. 19.— Dalla Torre, Cat. 

 Hyni., v., 1898, p. 35. 

 Brazil : St. Paul. 



AXIMA KOEBELEI, sp. noV. 



Feiiiale. — Length 4.5 nun. Black; scape beneath and basally, teguhu, trochan- 

 ters, knees, tips of tibite and the tarsi honey-yellow ; pronotuni, except a median 

 stripe, and spots on sides of tlie fifth and the sixth abdominal segments, red. 



The frijntal spines are large, acute, and fully twice as long as wide at base. 



TiiiH.—i "at. No. 6394, U. 8. N. M. 



P.razil : Bonito Prov., Pernanil)UCo. (Mr. Albert Kocl>ele.) 



AxiMA HKASILIENSIS, sp. IIOV. 



Female. — Length 4.5 mm. Resembles A. koehelei, but differs in color. It is l>luck, 

 witli the face below the anteniife, the cheeks, the pronotum except a median stripe, 

 the metathorax at apex and at sides, and the sides of the fourth and fifth abdominal 

 segments, red; trochanters, knees, tips of til)i;p and the tarsi, h(jney-yellu\v. 



Type.— Cat No. 6395, U. S. N. M. 



Brazil: Bonito Prov., Pernambuco. (Mr. Albert Koebele.) 



AXI.MA HREVICORNIS, sp. UOV. 



Female. — Length 4 to 4.6 mm. Black; the face below tlie insertion of the an- 

 tennte, the sides of the ])ronotum, the pmstcnium, sometimes the metii[)leura and the 



