162 A. A. Girault: 
with a line of moderately large punctures down them, subequal 
to those of the scutum. Interspaces of punctation finely reticu- 
lated like most of the abdominal segments. Robust. 
Antennae black; funicle joints 3 and 4,5 and 6, subequal, 
the first pair each slightly longer than the components of the 
second pair, the third funicle joint a fourth shorter than the 
second. 
(From a single specimen, ?/,-inch objective, 1-inch optie, 
Bausch and Lomb.) 
Male: — Unknown. 
Described from a single female specimen, pinned and labelled 
„Paraguay (San Bernardino). K. Fiebrig. S. V.” [= Sammler 
und Verkäufer] and ‚5637”. 
Habitat: South America—San Bernardino, Paraguay. 
Type: Katalogue No. 31 942, Zool. Museum, Berlin, the 
foregoing specimen mounted on a spin (the head missing) plus 
one slide bearing a female antenna (xylol-balsam). 
Tribe Smierini. 
Genus Trismicra Ashmead. 
1. Trismicra contracta (Walker). 
A single specimen agreeing in general with the description of 
this Brazilian species; apparently a male. Comparing the spe- 
cimen before me with the original description, the general color 
is honey yellow; the head is black behind as therein stated but 
only in the occipital depression as seen from above; for instance 
the head is not black behind the eyes. The hind border of the 
pronotum is not black at all but the ‚narrow black band, which 
is slightly arched in front” is along the cephalic margin of the 
mesoscutum, is dilated at each end (barely not, or just, reaching 
the parapsidal furrows) and with the mesial black stripe of the 
mesoscutum, forms almost an exact representation of an old- 
fashioned ship’s anchor inverted. It is distinetly arched. The 
„three broad black stripes” of the mesothorax consist of the 
median stripe of the scutum which is dilated at a point about 
two-thirds the way back to the apex of the scutum and then 
continued to the apex in a thin black line; and of a stripe on 
each parapside, along the mesal third, dilating from its lateral 
margin caudad and not reaching the caudal margin; its mesal 
margin is nearly straight, slightly emarginate caudad. The cephalie 
and caudo-mesal margins of the axillae are very narrowly edged 
with black, which is what Walker means, perhaps, by ‚paraptera 
black towards each other”. The black stripe of the scutellum 
is median and enlarges uniformly caudad; it has the appearance 
of an inverted exclamation mark. In this Paraguayan specimen 
there are no marks on the metathorax. The apical black spot 
on the posterior femora is not present here, but there are two 
