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tubercles. Mandibles obtusely pointed, with an obsolete tooth on each side before 

 tip: paler than the head at base and black at tips, with many stiff yellow hairs 

 near the middle; malar space very short, with furrow. Maxillary palpi 5-jointed, 

 first joint very short, fourth and fifth longest. Antenna; 3-t or 35-jointed, reaching 

 to the tip of the first abdominal segment; first two joints ferruginous, remainder 

 piceous; scape twice as long as thick, pedicel obovate somewhat over one-half as 

 long as the scape; first flagellar joint equalling the .scape, but one-fourth as thick' 

 as long; following 4 or 5 joints nearly equal, each about one-half longer than the 

 first; remaining ones gradually shortening and becoming more slender. Cheeks 

 and temples smooth and polished, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs near the 

 base of the mandibles. Prothorax transversely striate; as long as the head above 

 and evenly widened behind when seen from above. Mesonotum very short, irregu- 

 larly areolate, but with a pair of contiguous well-defined squarish areolae medially 

 behind. Axillae large, faintly striate, each with two fovese toward the median line 

 behind; separated from the scutellum and from one another by crenate impressed 

 grooves; scutellum smooth centrally, but with a few foveae or large scattered punc- 

 tures on the sides. Metanotum with large, rather closely placed circular foveae, 

 the spaces between them showing fine transverse aciculations. Petiole of abdo- 

 men straight, of equal thickness throughout, twice as long as the thorax, exclusive 

 of the pronotum, its entire surface somewhat irregularly transverse-striate, on each 

 side with a lateral carina that is much more distinct near its origin at the anterior 

 angles; second segment scarcely over one-third as long as the first, at the extreme 

 base above with transverse striae; toward the middle microscopically shagreened, 

 and apically microscopically transversely aciculate. Following segments showing 

 very faint traces of aciculation except the last which is faintly shagreened. Meso- 

 pleura smooth above, obliquely raised along an oblique line from the base of the 

 middle coxa to below the tegula; on the pleura below and on the pectus transversely 

 aciculate, with some large confluent punctures intermixed anteriorly and just below 

 the lateral ridge. Metapleura sculptured like the metanotum, with a lateral carina 

 which becomes obsolete anteriorly. Fore and middle legs piceous, with the base 

 of the femora, knees and base of metatarsus brownish. Hind coxae half as long as 

 the petiole of the abdomen and resembling it in size and sculpture except that they 

 are thickened beyond the middle. Hind femora with three teeth below, the largest 

 one at the middle, the next halfway toward the apex and the smallest one-third 

 way to the base; nearer the base is a still smaller, obsolete tooth; in addition with 

 three very small denticles between the middle and subapical tooth. Posterior tibia 

 inwardly at apex with a small pad of yellowish white hairs. Wings hyaline, with 

 fuscous veins; radial cell open on its apical fifth; median and submedian cells 

 closed, of equal length; discoidal cell with only its basal and upper sides indicated 

 by veins. Tegulae at tip, and root of wing, fulvous. 



One female from Manaos, Brazil (Mann & Baker). 



This is the second species of Foenatopus to be described from 

 Brazil, all the others being of African provenience. It differs 

 from F. annulipes Kieffer from Para, Brazil, by its orange-colored 

 head, absence of transverse striae on the mesonotmn and lack of 



