100 ____^ 



one at its base and apex, on the sides of mesonotum at tlie base, and 

 the sides of the occiput are more broadly roundly narrowed. San Marcos. 

 3430 Ephuta chinandegae sp. nov. 



Black, thickly covered with longish silvery hair and with silvery 

 pubescence; the two basal abdominal segments with a broad band of 

 silvery pubescence on the apex; the coxae, tibiae, and tarsi thickly cover- 

 ed with silvery pile; the femora sparsely haired, the calcaria and tarsal 

 spines white; wings fuscous, highly iridescent, the nervures and stigma 

 black. Male. Length 6 mm. Chinandega. 



Antennae stout, the fiagellum covered with a pale i)ile; the scape 

 more shining, sparsely covered with white hair, hollowed beneath, the 

 sides stoutly keeled; the first joint of fiagellum narrowed at the base, 

 about one-half longer than the second. 



Front and vertex strongly punctured, the punctures clearly separated. 

 Eye incision large; ff.ce and clypeus smooth; mandibles with a broad 

 rufous band near the middle, their base thickly covered with white 

 pubescence. Mesonotum coarsely rugosely punctured, almost reticulated, 

 the reticulations in the middle near the apex longer than the others. 

 Scutellum closely rugosely punctured, thickly covered with white 

 pubescence, longer than it is wide at the base, the sides straight, the 

 apex rounded. Central area on base of metanotum large, about three 

 times longer than wiile, of equal width, with the apex rounded; tho 

 apex of the segment has a straight, oblique slope. The abdominal 

 petiole nearly as wide at the base as it is at the apex, the latter clear- 

 ly separated from the second segment, its ventral keel blunt, not dilated, 

 clearly separated at the base. Pygidium irregularly punctured, the third 

 and following dorsal segments keeled in the middle, the keel on the third 

 and fourth shorter, not extending near to the base of the segment. 

 The fourth abscissa of the radius slightly shorter than the basal and 

 more steeply sloped, the third is not as long as the first and second 

 united, the first recurent nei-vure is received shortly, but distinctly 

 beyond the middle, the second in the middle. 



This is an "Ephuta" as defined by Dr. Ashmead, Gauad. Ent. XXXVI, 

 page 7. 



TIPHIDAE. 

 3437 Paratiphia fuscipennis t^p. nov. 



Black; the mantlibles and apical Joint of the tarsi rufo-piceous, the 

 calcaria white, the tarsal spines bright red; the pubescence white, on 

 the last abdominal segment fulvous; wings and nervures fuscous. 

 Female. Length nearly 7 mm. San Marcos, Nicaragua. 



Fiagellum of antennae brownish below, covered with a microscopic 

 pile. Head above the antennae strongly punctured, more closely and 

 with the punctures smaller and more closely pressed together on the 

 lower part of the front than on the vertex. Pronotum except at the 

 apex covered with large, deep, roundish punctures; the mesonotum 



