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small spots above, one on each side of the femur, and a large, 
transverse spot beneath, bilobed where it crosses behind the 
third tooth, a lobe on each side; the apex of the posterior femur 
is fuscous; the first tooth is pyramidal and black at apex; the 
other two are slender and wholly black and acute. There is a 
fourth very minute black tooth further cephalad in the bilobed 
black spot, or rather directly cephalad of it. Otherwise as described; 
the fore wings are slightly smoky; marginal and submarginal 
veins subequal in length, long, the stigmal vein much shorter 
than either. Along the face, in the antennal scrobes between the 
eyes are two large ovate black dots, side by side. They are usually 
concealed by the scape. 
The antennae of my specimen are reddish-brown, suffused 
above with dusky, the scape yellow like the body, dark along its 
dorsal aspect and with a black stripe along the distal half of each 
side. The ocelli are in a slightly curved line, black, the eyes 
yellowish green. The distal ciliation of both wings is dense, short 
and uniform. The dorsal thorax (except metathorax) is densely 
punctate and is clothed with a fine, yellowish pile, somewhat 
more conspicuous on the metathorax. Length, 4.5 mm. 
Thus, although not agreeing in every detail with the original 
description, still the likenesses are so many that one cannot do 
otherwise than identify this specimen as that of Walker’s Smicra 
contracta, 1864, described from the Amazonian Region of Brazil. 
I append a few descriptive notes on its antennae: 13-jointed, 
filiform, one ring-joint, club not enlarged, pubescence short, 
moderately dense and fine; pedicel small, only half the length of 
the first funicle joint, broadest distad; first funicle joint longest, 
about one and a half, or less, times longer than broad; the other 
six gradually shortening distad, joints 6 and 7 of funicle sub- 
equal, subquadrate, each about two thirds the length of joint 1; 
first two club joints wider than long, the second shortest; not 
as long as the pedicel, the third as long as the distal funicle joint; 
scape not long, slightly dilated ventrad. 
(From one specimen, the same magnification.) 
From a single male, minutien mounted, labelled ‚Paraguay 
(San Bernardino). K. Fiebrig. S. V. 6272”. Male antenna on 
slide. Specimen and slide in Zool. Museum Berlin. 
Genus Tetrasmicra Ashmead. 
1. Tetrasmicra bicolor new species. 
Female: — Length 4.6 mm. 
Differing from all other species of the genus (excepting 
maculata whose original description has not been accessible and 
concitata) in being black instead of luteous. From the black con- 
citata, it may distinguished at once by the following characteristics: 
the cephalic margin of the prothorax is margined with honey 
yellow; the lateral margins of the scutum, along the parapsidal 
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