156 Psyche [August 



flagellum clothed with long^ sparse white hairs. Pronotum one- 

 third as long as ^\ide, very slightly and broadly emarginate 

 medially behind; punctation like that of the head, forming 

 about seven irregular transverse rows; mesonotum and scu- 

 tellum sculptured like the pronotum; scapulae less clearly 

 separated behind where they are separated by about one-fourth 

 the width of the thorax; a very deep transverse impression 

 between the median lobe of mesonotum and the scutellum; 

 the latter sharply upturned at the tip, and with a broad shallow 

 shagreened impression basally at the sides, the centre of the 

 impression with a tuft of white hairs. Propodeum with a large 

 shield-shaped shagreened areola extending from base to apex 

 and a lateral transversely reticulate areola on each side, the 

 carinse very strong. Pleurae opaque, almost entirely without 

 large punctures except on the densely hairy metapleurae; meso- 

 pleura with a few oblique lines. Hind coxae granulate, densely 

 hairy externally. Petiole with a median furrow above and an 

 incomplete lateral one; second to fourth segments short, 

 subequal. together distinctly shorter than the fifth, which is by 

 far the longest segment, sixth and seventh of about equal length, 

 each on the dorsum two-thirds as long as the fifth, the sixth 

 with a small round, very distinct spiracle near the base, the 

 seventh with a larger one toward tip; eighth barely extruded; 

 gaster in profile lanceolate, one-third as high as long, highest at 

 the base of the fifth segment. Wings hj-aline, venation pale; 

 rather densely hairy, but without noticeably marginal fringe; 

 hind wing with three frenulum hooks. 



Type from Kartabo, British Guiana (I. W. Bailey, collected 

 as described on a previous page of this journal (Psyche, vol. 

 29, p. 153. 



Conoaxima affinis sp. nov. 



9 . Length 3.7 mm. Very similar to C. aztecicida, but 

 differing most distinctly as indicated in the table above. The 

 thorax is also more coarsely punctate, especially the scutellum 

 where about eight punctures form a longitudinal line. 



