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LEPTOMASTIX, F6rster. 



5. Leptomastix tineaevora, n. sp. 



9- Length .07 inch. The head, fore part of collar and the mesopleura, steel 

 blue ; thora:^ and abdomen brown ; eyes dark brown. Antennae very long, slender, 

 the pedicel extending con'^iderably beyond the ocelli, it and the pedicel yellow, the 

 flagellum brown, the joints of which are very long. The legs are pale brown, e.\- ' 

 cepting the basal one-third of the tibiae, and the tar.-i, which are white. Wings 

 hyaline, pubescent, veins brown ; the marginal vein nearly twice the length of the 

 stigma and enclosed in a large dusky blotch which extends nearly across the wing. 

 Described from one specimen, reared from a Tineid larva. 



PRIONOMASTIX, Mayr. 



6. Prionomastix americana, n. ;-p. 



(^ . Length .07 mch. Head l)ro\vnish-yello\v ; thorax and al)domen fuscous, 

 sparsely pubescent. The space between the eyes wide, finely punctate ; eyes and 

 antennse, excepting scape, dark' brown ; the scape rather short, slender , p^'dicel 

 very small ; flagellar joints long, much flattened, and of nearly equal length, about 

 two-thirds as long as the scape. Scutellum large, highly convex and finely grooved. 

 Metathorax short, smooth. Abdomen small, sessile ovate, depressed above. Legs 

 fuscous, excepting the tibise at base, first four tarsal joints, and the large middle 

 tibial spur, all of which are white. Wings hyaline. 

 Described from one specimen. 



PSILOPHRYS, Mayr. 



7. Psilophrys armatus, n. sp. 



<^, Q. Length .05 inch. Dark blue with greenish metallic reflections on the 

 thorax and the uj^per part of the head. The antenna in the O is very slender and 

 entirely brown-black, excepting a pale pedicel ; in the (^' the scape is brownish-yel- 

 low, the joints of the flagellum very long and covered with long hairs. The meso- 

 pleura in the female are steel-blue, in the male bronzy-green. The legs are pale 

 yellowish ; the coxae metallic blue or green ; the femora and tibise, excepting at their 

 tips and the terminal tarsal joint, brown. In the ,^, the middle tibiae are entirely 

 pale yellow. The abdomen in the 9 endg in an ovipositor half its length. Wings 

 hyaline, veins brown, the marginal vem hardly as long as the stigmal vein. 

 Described from 29? ^.nd 2 (^ (^ specimens. 



8. (?) Psilophrys pulchripennis, n. sp. 



9 • Length .07 inch. Metallic blue green and cupreous. The head very large, 

 the eyes abnormally large, occupying the greater part of the head, and leaving but a 

 very narrow frontal space. The scape of the antennae is pale brown, the flagellum 

 black and more than twice the length of the scape, subclavate, the joints being slightly 

 longer than thick. The scutellum is cupreous. Abdomen blue. The legs are black 

 or brown, the trochanters, knees, tips of tibiae and tarsi, excepting the terminal joint, 

 pale or yellowish white. Wings fuliginous, excepting a clear space at base, two large 

 wedge-shaped spots in middle of tl\e wing extending to fore margin, a smaller wedge- 

 shaped spot extending to hind margin, and the extreme apical margin of wing, all of 

 which are white. 



Described from four specimens. This most beautiful Eucyrtid cer- 

 tainly does not belong to tliis genus ; ii is placed here only temporarily 

 on account of its long face ; in some other respects it more closely re- 

 sembles the jrenus Blastothrix. 



