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venation nearly as in hookeri; emargination of the sternites as in 

 liookeri. Black, variegated with yellow and ferruginous; clypeus 

 except transverse spot basally, inner orbits (broader below), a line 

 from the median ocellus between the bases of the antennae, narrow 

 posterior orbits almost meeting on the occiput, spot on the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum, spot on the sides of the pronotum, posterior 

 margin of the pronotum broadly, tegula except the fuscous margins, 

 two narrow lines on the mesonotum which converge posteriorly to 

 form a spot, spots on the scutellum, metanotum, two large spots on 

 the mesepisternum, spots on the nietapleurae just below the wings, 

 posterior face of the propodeum, the dorsal aspect of the propo- 

 deum except in the middle, posterior margin of the metaepimeron, 

 two basal segments above and below at base and the basal margin of 

 the third tergite yeUow; legs ferruginous, coxae black, the four ante- 

 rior ones yellov/ beneath, the four posterior ones with a yeUow spot on 

 the posterior margin, tarsi yellow, the bases of the joints ferruginous; 

 abdomen except where mentioned ruf o-f erruginous ; arttennae rufo- 

 ferruginous to the sixth joint beyond which they are dark brown; head 

 and thorax except where mentioned black; wings yellowish when 

 viewed in certain lights with a strong bluish tinge; venation yellowish 

 to pale brown. 



Male. — Length 6.5 mm. Agrees very well with the above descrip- 

 tion of the female, but has the colors of the abdomen more sharply 

 contrasted, the clpyeus withou't black spot, the yellow on the posterior 

 orbits and that on the propodeum is broader, the bases of the four 

 posterior femora black. Third antennal joint is distinctly shorter 

 than the fourth. 



Described from three females and two males collected in the West 

 Indies. The type female was collected at Bonwood Valley near 

 Kingston, Jamaica, October 21, at an altitude of eight hundred feet 

 on "second growth." The allotype male was collected near Mount 

 Gay Leeward, Jamaica (?), September 23, at an altitude of tliree 

 hundred feet in an open space on herbage. One female collected on 

 Windward side of St. Vincent by H. H. Smith. The other specimens 

 bore no definite locality. 



Tyjje.—Csit. No. 15080, U.S.N.M. 



This is the species recorded from the West Indies by Ashmead as 

 PycnopoTYiinlus mavus. 



Family EmiENIDAE. 



Genus ODYNERUS Latreille. 



Subgenus STENODYNERUS Saussure. 



Group PRECAMPANITLATI. 



Clypeus much longer than wide, apex truncate; head with separate 

 distinct punctures; inside of lateral ocelli with a tubercule, much 



