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rounded; vertex nearly flat; ocelli small; postocellar line slightly 

 shorter than the occUocular line; antennae slender, the third joint 

 but little shorter than the fourth and fifth; posterior margin of the 

 pronotum without a median impressed line, posterior margin broadly 

 arcuate; logs rather feebly spined, the longer spur of the posterior 

 tibia but little shorter than the post-basitarsus; claws with an erect 

 inner tooth; the sternites emarginate on the apical margin, the 

 emargmation on the fourth deeper and sub triangular, the others 

 broadly, arcuately emarginate; third cubital ceU shorter on the 

 radius than the second, the distance between the second and third 

 transverse cubiti subequal in length with the distance between the 

 second transverse cubitus and the second recurrent vein; transverse 

 median on the hind wings about three times the width of the vein 

 beyond the cubitus. Black; antennae beneath and the third, fourth, 

 and fifth joints above ruf o-f erruginous ; clypeus except a large 

 median spot, which is broader basaUy and narrowed to the truncate 

 apex, inner orbits more broadly below, single line from the anterior 

 ocellus to between the bases of the antennae, a narrow line on the 

 posterior orbits which nearly meets the occiput, narrow posterior 

 margin of the pronotum, small spot on the sides of the prono- 

 tum, two parallel lines on the mesonotum which are confluent pos- 

 teriorly, spots on tlie side of the scutellum, metanotum, two other 

 elongate spots on the mesepisternum basaUy, margin of the mete- 

 pimeron, two spots on the posterior face of the propodeum basaUy, 

 abdominal segments above and below, narrow bands on the basal 

 margin of the second, third, and fourth tergites and most of the fifth 

 tergite yellow; legs black, the anterior coxae beneath, small spot sides 

 of the intermediate coxae yellow; apices of the femora (more broadly 

 on the four anterior ones) tibiae and tarsi ruf o-f erruginous ; calcaria 

 pallid; wings yellowish hyahne, the apices dusky; venation yellowish 

 basally, apically pale brown. 



Mayaguez, Porto Eico. Two females, one collected January 27 

 (type) the other January 25, 1912, by C. W. Hooker, for whom this 

 species is named. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15079, U.S.N.M. 



BATAZONUS MUNDIFORMIS, new species. 



Female. — Length 10 mm. Anterior margin of the clypeus gently 

 emarginate, the apex granular with a few large punctures; front 

 viewed from the side very slightly rounded; vertex viewed from in 

 front flat; anterior ocellus slightly larger than the lateral ocelli; 

 postocellar line slightly longer than the ocellocular line; antennae 

 slender, the third joint about one-third longer than the fourth; 

 posterior margin of the pronotum with the normal line-like depres- 

 sion; posterior margin of the pronotum sub triangularly, emarginate; 



