18 Psyche [February 



Head three times as wide as thick; not margined behind; 

 ocelH very large; maxillary palpi long, five jointed; labial palpi 

 4-jointed; eyes large and strongly projecting, antennae thin, 

 longer than the body. Mesonotum strongly trilobed; propodeum 

 and pleurse finely sculptured; spiracle minute, circular. Legs 

 very slender; ovipositor longer than the body. Recurrent ner- 

 vure entering the first cubital cell; first discoidal cell barely 

 sessile above; nervulus postfurcal; nervellus issuing at the lower 

 third of the discoidal cell. 



Type: A. 'pedicellatum ^y^. now. 



Aulacocentrum pedicellatum sp. no v. 

 9 Length 13 mm.; ovipositor 15 mm. Dull ferruginous; 

 antennse black, except on scape above; lateral lobes of mesono- 

 tum, tegulse, four anterior legs beyond coxae and abdomen 

 toward tip, flavous. Wings hyaline at base, the apical half dis- 

 tinctly infuscated; venation piceous, the stigma dark, but with 

 a pale central streak. Ovipositor ferruginous, its sheaths black. 

 Face faintly punctate, shining; malar space one-fifth as long as 

 the eye-height; vertex and head behind smooth. Antennae 

 with about 55 joints, the first flagellar joint nearly as long as the 

 eye-height, following decreasing in length, those near the middle 

 of the flagellum thrice as long as thick. Mesonotum shining, the 

 furrows deeply crenate, meeting near the middle; lobes smooth 

 and shining. Scutellum highly convex; finely, closely punctate. 

 Propodeum above minutely rugulose-recticulate, irregularly 

 transversely striated behind the spiracle; anteriorly below the 

 spiracle with a longitudinal carina; sides below confluently 

 punctate; margin next to the mesopleura impressed, cross- 

 striated; spical angle at base of the hind coxa produced. Meso- 

 pleura with an oblique impression, below sparsely punctate. 

 Propleura smooth, with a median impression. First segment 

 of abdomen transversely aciculate (as in Stephanus); second 

 segment and base of third somewhat irregularly longitudinally 

 aciculate; apical segments faintly punctulate. Tibial spurs of 

 hind leg less than half as long as the first tarsal joint; claws 

 minute, simple. Second section of radius twice as long as the 

 first, third longer than the other two; nervulus received less than 



