172 A. A. Girault: 
base of the stigmal vein, changing angle caudad of its middle, the 
two arms unequal and interrupted by a narrow clear space just 
beyond its change of angle; and an irregular area near the apex, 
nearly shoeshaped, the base toward the hyaline apex. Venation 
greyish brown. 
Face striate, ventrad with a number of scattered thimble 
punctures; scrobes visible only at base. Vertex polygonally 
sculptured. Ocelli in a triangle, distant from the eyes; thorax 
sculptured like the vertex, both bearing very long, stiff, black 
setae, scattered regularly; sculpture of axillae and seutellum 
tending toward longitudinal striation caudad; scutellum with a 
transverse, narrow groove at base of distal third. Metanotum with 
large foveae with carinated margin. Abdominal segments 
sculptured as in the preceding species. In the fore wing there is 
a short oblique naked area near the first small fuscous spot, just 
disto-caudad of it. The stigmal vein is not quite half the length 
of the postmarginal which is long. 
Antennae 13-jointed, one ring-joimt, three club-joints. The 
pedicel is slightly longer than the second funicle joint which is 
not quite half the length of the long proximal funicle joint, yet 
much more than twice longer than wide; funicle joint 3 is slightly 
shorter than 2, while 4 is a fourth shorter than 3; 5 is subequal 
to 4; 6 a fourth shorter than its preceding joint while 7 is still 
shorter, yet plainly longer than wide; club ovate, not enlarging, 
its joints shortening distad. Antennae pubescent. Lower half 
of face with short, white pubescence; stylus pubescent; ovi- 
positor not exserted. 
(From one specimen, the same magnification). 
Male:— Unknown. 
Described from a single female mounted on a minutien pin 
and labelled ‚Paraguay, San Bernardino, K. Fiebrig. S. V. 4. 6”. 
Habitat: Paraguay (San Bernardino). 
Type: Katalogue No. 31950, Zool. Museum, Berlin, the above 
female, plus one slide (female antenna). 
Family Cleonymidae. 
Subfamily Cleonyminae. 
Genus Epistenia Westwood. 
1. Epistenia americana new species. 
Female: — Length, 9.00 mm. 
Extraordinarily brilliant metallic deep blue, with darker blue, 
purplish and light brilliant green in certain lights, especially the 
head is a resplendent green; also the deep blueness of the dorsal 
aspects of the thorax and abdomen”with a coppery sheen at’angled 
light but no distinet coppery markings as in the following species. 
Eyes light garnet. Wings posteriorly hyaline, the venation fuscous. 
Legs concolorous or metallic green, excepting the tarsi and all 
