6 Psyche [February 



Pelecinella ashmeadi sp. nov. 



Female: Length 22 mm.; ovipositor \i mm. Black, slightly seneous on the 

 head, thorax, petiole of abdomen and legs; abdomen greenish on the second seg- 

 ment and with a purplish-blue cast on the third and following segments. Hind tarsi 

 with the first joint entirely yellowish white, the succeeding joints fuscous; second 

 trochanter on front legs and extreme base of four anterior metatarsi rufous or yel- 

 lowish brown. Body slightly white-pubescent on the thorax and legs, densely so 

 on the face, the hairs on the hind tibise stiff and erect though short, black on the 

 apical third of the tibia. Head deeply furrowed medially above the antennse; on 

 the sides striate above the middle, vertically rugoso-striate below. Antennae as 

 in P. phantasma. Face shagreened, with a shield-shaped bare area medially just 

 above the lower margin; cheeks with a few large punctures; malar line distinct. 

 Prothorax finely transversely aciculate above, smooth laterally; mesonotum more 

 coarsely aciculate, smooth and sparsely punctate on the posterior part of the lat- 

 eral lobes exteriorly; axillae and scutellum sparsely punctate, not separated ante- 

 riorly. Metanotum transversely aciculate on its posterior half as well as near the 

 median line anteriorly, towards the anterior angles sparsely punctate and on the 

 pleurae behind densely punctate. Pro- and mesopleurae closely punctate, the latter 

 with a long, deep, smooth femoral furrow. Petiole of abdomen very finely trans- 

 versely aciculate above, cylindrical in form, as long as the hind coxae; remainder 

 of abdomen smooth, as usual in the genus. Anterior tibiae each with nine or ten 

 fine teeth or denticles along the inner margin, those toward the apex smaller and 

 more approximate. Hind coxae with a few transverse striae above toward the apex. 

 Wings hyaline; marginal vein four-fifths as long as the submarginal; stigmal punc- 

 tiform; postmarginal attaining the wing-tip. 



One specimen, Abuna, Rio Madeira, Brazil. Mann and Baker. 



It gives me great pleasure to be able to dedicate the present 

 species of this most remarkable genus to my friend, the late Wil- 

 liam H. Ashmead, who showed me years ago the two Brazilian 

 species which he himself described. 



Family SCELIONID.E. 

 Hoplogryon fortis sp. nov. 



cf. Length 2 mm. Black; legs fuscous; basal half of antennal scape brownish; 

 wings hyaline, with fuscous veins. Head, seen from above, fully twice as broad as 

 thick anteroposteriorly; occiput and temples weakly striate, the striae extending 

 parallel to the raised posterior margin of the head; ocelli large, in a small triangle, 

 the posterior ones one-half farther from the eye-margin than from one another; 

 front above polished, on its lower half coarsely vertically striated, the striae extend- 

 ing higher on the sides than at the middle and converging below so as to pass be- 

 tween the base of the antennae and the eyes, leaving a smooth stripe extending 

 upwards from between the antennae; cheeks striate, their striae converging with 

 those of the front toward the anterior edge of the insertion of each mandible; clypeus 



