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distinct violet and purple iridescence. Abdominal petiole not much longer 

 than the hind coxae. 



1432 Lirata fulvicomis sp. nov. 



Black, antennae rufo-fulvous, darker towards the apex; the legs 

 yellow, their coxae black; wings hyaline, the nervures black; the apex 

 of abdomen broadly rufous, the petiole somewhat more than twice the 

 length of the hind coxae and longer than the rest of the abdomen. Man- 

 dibles dark testaceous, black at the base. Ch-peus bronzy, the spines 

 reach to the apex of the abdomen. Male. Length 4 mm. Managua, Ni- 

 caragua. 



Vertex longitudinally striated, the striae clearly separated; the front 

 less distinctly obliquely striated, as is also the side of the face, its centre 

 more closely and finely striated. The malar space transversely striated, 

 the striae more curved in front than behind; scutellum and metanotum 

 stoutly longitudinally striated. Propleurae densely covered with long- 

 ish white pubescence; mesopleurae with a long deep depression, exten- 

 ding from the top to the bottom, smooth, the rest irregularly striated; 

 the striae behind the depression united in pairs at the apex, the lower 

 part of metapleurae with two or three large foveae below at the base. 

 Scutellar spines reaching to the apex of the abdomen, stout, striated. 



1431 Lirata sulcifacies sp. nov. 



Black, with a slight violaceous iridescence, the thorax tinged with 

 brassy; scape of antennae fulvous yellow; the legs pale yellow; wings 

 hyaline, the stigma black; scutellar spines curved, their apices slightly 

 turned outwards, stoutly striated; the face with a wide deep furrow 

 down the centre, the sides rounilly curved outwardly. Male. Length 2.5 

 mm. Chinandega, Nicaragua. 



Front and vertex finely striated, the striae curved; the face more 

 finely striated on the sides; the malar space sharply obliquely striated. 

 Middle lobe of mesonotum stoutly, widely striated; the lateral smooth; 

 the scutellum similarly, but longitudinally striated, the striae on the 

 latter more curved. Apex of propleurae striated; mesopleurae with an 

 irregular fovea at the base below, the apex not deeply depressed; me- 

 tapleurae covered with M^hite pubescence. Abdominal petiole more than 

 twice the length of the hind coxae and longer than the rest of the ab- 

 domen. A species easily known by having on the face a wide deep 

 furrow, dilated at the apex. 

 1431 Lirata nigriventris sp. nov. 



Dark bronzy, the head darker coloured, the abdomen black, slightly 

 violaceous at the base, scape of antennae testaceous; the legs pale 

 yellow; thoracic spines reaching slightly beyond the middle of abdo- 

 men; face and clypeus with a broad keel, contracted greatly in the 

 middle, clypeus distinctly margined, the apex transverse in the middle, 

 its sides broadly rounded, the sides slightly bent inward and with a 

 large, longish depression at the top. Mandibles testaceous. Wings hyaline, 

 nervures black. Female. Length nearly 4 mm. Chinandega, Nicaragua. 



