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triangular, smooth, a deep pit at apex ; thorax above, espe- 
cially on scutellum, clothed with very bright orange-fulvous 
hair; pleura with dull white hair; tegule piceous. Wings 
hyaline, faintly dusky, stigma dull fulvous, nervures fuscous ; 
b.n. meeting the oblique t.-m. Legs slender, the hind pair 
long; spurs very pale reddish ; hair of legs white. Abdomen 
broad, moderately shining, the hind margins of the segments 
with conspicuous pale fulvous hair-bands. 
Carcarana, Argentina (L. Bruner, 83), U.S. Nat. Museum. 
Readily known by the bright hair of thorax above. It 
may be compared with the much larger P. franki, Friese, 
from Buenos Aires. 
Pasiphaé leucostoma, sp. n. 
& .—Length about 8°3 mm. ; anterior wing 6. 
Black, the flagellum obscurely brownish beneath ; slender, 
with rather long and narrow abdomen ; apical half of man- 
dibles dark chestnut ; face and clypeus densely covered with 
silky white hair; a smooth shining space on each side of 
ocelli; antennz rather short ; mesothorax and scutellum 
polished and shining, slightly glaucous, with very remote 
and minute punctures ; area of metathorax large, triangular, 
the basal part very finely transversely striate, the apical with 
a deep pit; hair of thorax white, tinged with ochreous 
dorsally; tegule piceous. Wings hyaline, faintly dusky, 
stigma and nervures rufo-fuscous. Legs ordinary, with 
white hair ; hind legs long and slender. Abdomen without 
any distinct hair-bands, though the fourth and following 
segments have thin bands of glittering white hair, which 
becomes dense at apex; surface of abdomen dullish, glaucous, 
the second and third sutures obscurely reddish; fourth and 
fifth ventral segments with conspicuous fringes of pure white 
hair. 
Carcarana, Argentina (ZL. Bruner, 38, 73). U.S. Nat, 
Museum. : 
Resembles the Chilean P. tristis, Spinola, but that has the 
abdomen shining and hind margins of segments testaceous. 
Lonchopria rufipennis, sp. n. 
3 (type).—Length about 11 mm.; anterior wing 8:5. 
Black, without metallic tints; head and thorax above with 
pale ochreous hair; face, cheeks, and lower part of thorax 
with creamy-white hair; mandibles reddish apically, bi- 
dentate ; face broad, inner orbits nearly parallel; face and 
front densely covered with hair; malar space extremely 
