12 Psyche [February 



without parapsidal grooves, but with a median shallow, broad depression, a similar 

 one on each side and a short narrow deep groove next the lateral margin behind the 

 tegula. Scutellum with a large, oval impression at the base each side of the median 

 -line and a second one near the lateral edge; the middle of the disc convex, with 

 an impression on each side and three longitudinal carinse behind it; postscutellum 

 with three strongly raised longitudinal carinae. Metathorax at the base with a 

 curved thorn, shaped like a bird's beak; concave on each side behind the thorn. 

 Petiole of abdomen four times as long as broad; above with six longitudinal broad, 

 and very shallow, opaque grooves, separated by shining lines; with a covering of 

 whitish woolly hairs along the sides and below, and with a ring of loose sparse, woolly 

 hairs before the apex; second segment lanceolate, nearly twice as wide at apex, 

 and three times as wide at middle, as at base; smooth and polished; three times 

 as long as the remaining segments together; third and fourth segments short, sub- 

 equal, each with a minutely punctate band across the middle bearing a series of 

 stiff hairs; fifth segment narrow but about twice as long as the fourth, finely punc- 

 tulate and sparsely clothed with stiff hairs. Pro- and mesopleurse smooth, polished; 

 metcipleurse very rough, but clothed with dense white pubescence. Legs piceous, 

 tarsi lighter, especially the front ones; sparsely hairy, the hind coxae densely so. 

 Wings deep fuscous, lighter apically and behind; costal vein falling distinctly short 

 of the middle of the wing; marginal vein two and one-half times as long as thick; 

 stigmal A'ery short, punctiform; wing membrane with a hyaline streak below the 

 submarginal vein, more distinct basally, a triangidar hyaline area just beyond the 

 stigmal vein, a small, oval subapical hyaline area, well separated from the stigmal 

 one, and a hyaline streak on the disc from the basal third to the apical fourth; hind 

 wings subhyaline. 



From Porto Vellio, Rio Madeira, Brazil, Mann and Baker. 



This large species may be recognized by the color pattern of 

 the anterior wings, the form of the abdominal petiole and the con- 

 tour of the spine at the base of the metathorax. It falls near H. 

 rufijpes Kieffer, H. spinosiceps Kieffer and H. bicarinata, but differs 

 from these in the wing-picture, and abdominal petiole and from 

 the second by the unarmed head. 



Galesus debilis sp. nov. 



9 . Length 2.4 mm. Black; legs, except coxse, ferruginous; wings subhyaline, 

 folded longitudinally and deeply notched at apex. Head one-half longer than 

 wide; shining; above with an outwardlj' bowed series of three large punctures on 

 each side of the median line, with two more along the occipital margin each side of 

 the posterior median one, and a smaller one each side of the middle median one; 

 eyes margined above by an impressed line, separated from the front by a carina 

 which is more pronounced anteriorly; head on the sides with a large impression 

 below each eye; eyes round, bare. Antennae 12-jointed; scape twice as long as 

 thick; longitudinally grooved; pedicel one-half longer than the first flagellar joint 

 which is one- third longer than thick at apex; second to fourth quadra te-monili- 



