480 MEMOIRS OK THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



lowish, the funicle black ; legs, including coxee, flavo-testaceous. Wings hyaline, 

 with a curved fuscous streak at basal third, a large fuscous s^wt beyond this, includ- 

 ing the disk, connected with the basal nervure and extending to the hind margin ; 

 there is a large hyaline spot beneath the marginal vein and the apex of the stigmal 

 vein ; another triangular hyahne spot at the hind margin, while the apex of the 

 wing is also hyaline. The head and thorax are opaquely punctate, without striae ; 

 the abdomen is conic-ovate, smooth and polished and terminates in a black, sub- 

 compressed stylus. The antennae are subclavate, not long, the flagellum being only 

 about twice the length of the scape, the last three joints of the funicle a little wider 

 than long. 



Brazil : Cliapada, in August. 



Lelaps affinis, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen, except the tip of the 

 stylus which is black, pale ferruginous ; scape, pedicel, first three joints of funicle, 

 the last joint of funicle, and the club, pale yellowish or whitish ; legs, including the 

 coxae, flavo-testaceous, the coxae and tarsi however tinged with white. Front wings 

 hyaline, with a fuscous band across from the base of the marginal vein and enclos- 

 ing the basal part of the stigmal vein ; this is followed by a hyaline transverse band 

 and then by another narrow transverse fuscous band ; the apex of the wing is hya- 

 line. The head and thorax are finely opaquely sculptured ; the face above the in- 

 sertion of the antennae is finely, transversely aciculate, but smooth near the eye 

 margin ; the axillae are finely longitudinally aciculate. The abdomen is shaped as 

 in I J. apicalis. 



Brazil : Santarem. 



Lelaps feeeuginea, .sp. nov. 



J Female. — Length 3.6-4 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen, pale ferruginous, 



the extreme tip of the stylus black ; antennae pale yellowish with the two last joints 



of the funicle and the club black ; the funicle, without the pedicel, is fully three 



times as long as the scape ; legs, including the coxae, pale flavo-testaceous, the 



coxte and the tarsi tinged with whitish, the hind tibiae fuscous or subfuscous. Front 



wings mostly fuscous, the l)ase and tips hyaline and with two wedge-shaped hyaline 



spots vis-il-vis across the disk, just beyond the stigmal vein, their points meeting. 



The head and thorax are sculptured as in L. affinis except that the axilUe are not 



longitudinally aciculate and the posterior half of the mesopleura is perfectly smooth 



and highly polished. 



Brazil : Santarem. Two specimens. 



