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6. Parataneostigma new genus Taneostigmini. 
Female: In Ashmead’s table runs to Eutrichosoma but the body is 
practically naked. Differs from all the genera of the tribe in that the 
obliqued (meso-caudal) parapsidal furrows distinctly are incomplete but 
run toward each other to about the middle of the scutum (running 
nearly transversely) yet widely separated from each other at their mesal 
tips. Antennal club obliquely truncate from near the base, solid, the 
antennz 9-jointed, inserted on the clypeus, the scrobes forming a long 
semi-circle; face inflexed. Genal suture subobsolete. Frons moder- 
ately narrow. Venation not quite reaching the costal margin, the 
marginal vein obsolete, the postmarginal distinct but very short, the 
stigmal long and slender. Axillze very broadly joined, a carina between 
them. 
(1). Parataneostigma nigriaxillz new species. 
Female: Length, 2.00 mm. 
Bright canary yellow, the wings hyaline with the exception of a 
fuscous blotch from the stigmal vein, the latter fuscous, the venation 
yellow. The following jet markings. Face of pronotum except margin- 
ally, a stripe across above center of occiput, the axillee, the propodeum, 
the abdomen except broadly at base, the caudal knees very narrowly, a 
cinctus just below them anda broad one farther distad, near apex of caudal 
tibia. Funicle and club dusky. Lateral margin of propodeum with a 
line of silvery pubescence. Body finely reticulated. Caudal half of 
pronotum blackish, the cephalic margin of this half with a regular 
cross-row of short, flattened, grayish sete which are appressed. 
Scutellum embrowned just before tip. Lateral ocelli barely separated 
from the eyes. Pedicel twice longer than wide at apex; funicle joints 
all somewhat wider than long, widening distad. 
Described from one femee labelled “‘Mitla, Mexico, L. O. 
Howard.’’ 
Type: Catalogue No. 19339, U.S. N. M., the specimen on a 
tag, the antennz and wings on a slide. 
7. Ceratoneura petiolata Ashmead. 
One female, San Rafael, Jicoltepec, Mexico. The antennz 
bear four ring-joints, the fourth very large yet wider than 
long, colored and clothed like the funicle; club  subsolid. 
No lateral carina on the propodeum. The oblique striae 
on the face are ventrad of the rather high antennal insertion. 
The three funicle joints are subequal, all somewhat longer 
than wide (a third longer or a little more); petiole distinct, 
not long. 
