E. L. HOLMBERO: APID^ ARGENTINA G. PS^ENYTHIA 307 



23. cJ. Psaenythia bernardinensis Strand. (f). 



(1910). vil. ApidíT, Beitríige zur Kenntniss der Ilymenopterenfauna von Paraguay, 1. c, 

 vol. 29, p. 499, n. 41. 



Paraguay: San Bernardino (K. Fiebrig leg. sec. Strand). 



24. ?. Pssenythia verbenas, n. sp. 



?. Nígra, facie vix nitidula, punctata, capite reliquo dense punctulato; 

 thorace \n dorso vix nitidulo, reliquo corpore opaco, densissime punc- 

 tulato, segmentis 2.-5. flavo -fasciatis. 



Caput antice sparse breviterque albo -tomentoso, in vértice et inferné 

 dense, in fronte fusco; ocellis posticis vix duplo diámetro inter se dis- 

 junctis, diámetro ab antico et sesquidiametro a margine postico; anten- 

 nis nigro-fuscis, segmentis 2 primis nitidis, flagelli 2° 3um^4um aequante; 

 subter antennam singulam macula oblonga superne inferneque parum 

 abbreviata, altera transversa, minori, paululum extrorsum ascendente, ab 

 illa lineóla nigra suturali separata, flavis. 



Thorax pronoto fasciola flava ornato, in medio modice interrupta et 

 partibus extrorsum sensim attenuatis ángulos haud attingentibus; tegulis 

 nitidis, obscure fusco -rufescentibus; alis modice fulvescentibus prope 

 marginem posticum infuscatum fere hyalinis, venulis dilute testaceo-ful- 

 vescentibus, carpo quoque; pedibus obscure fuscis femoribus nigris, 

 breviter haud dense albescenti-villosis, scopa nigro-fusca, tarsis apicem 

 versus rufescentibus, unguiculis ápice fusco, scopulis dilute rufescenti- 

 bus hic illic auratis, calcaribus fusco -rufis, II 5-denticulatis. 



Abdomen in segmentis 2° -5? flavo -fasciatum (flavo-indico quasi) fas- 

 cüs in 2" et 5" utrinque abbreviatis, in T in medio postico modice ob- 

 tuse emarginata extrorsum utrinque antrorsum sensim attenuata; in 5° 

 multo minori, in 3" et 4° postice utrinque ampie curvatim emarginatis, 

 et margines laterales in parte deflexa attingentibus a callis lateralibus 

 antice utrinque plus minusve emarginatis; segmento 5 obscure fusco- 

 villoso - margínate, et 6" quoque plagula nuda sólita donato; ventre laevi, 

 segmentis nitidulis punctatis, ab basin late nitidissimis impunctatis, ad 

 marginem posticum cinéreo -pubescentibus praecipue in ultimis, et in 5" 

 et 6" obscurioribus. 



Long. ?: 10, capitis, thor., abd. lat. 3, ala 7, antenna 3 mm. 



Argentina. Santafé: Rosario (X. 13, 1912 in Verbena < rosa», Prof. J. 

 HUBRICH leg.). 



25. V. Psaenythia bifasciata Friese, (f). 



(1908) Die Apidcc von Argentina, 1. c, p. 41, n. j8, ^. 



Argentina. Mendoza (XI. 15 - XII. 20, Jórgensen leg., sec. Friese). 



