﻿NO. 
  1960. 
  YALE 
  PERUVIAN 
  EXPEDITION, 
  HYMENOPTERA—ROHWER. 
  451 
  

  

  Ashmeacl's 
  generic 
  synopsis 
  and 
  because 
  no 
  important 
  characters 
  

   are 
  known 
  to 
  separate 
  it 
  from 
  this 
  genus. 
  In 
  Fernald's 
  generic 
  

   table, 
  using 
  the 
  first 
  character 
  as 
  more 
  important 
  one, 
  it 
  would 
  run 
  

   to 
  Palmodes 
  but 
  will 
  not 
  agree 
  with 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  Palmodes 
  in 
  

   the 
  character 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  Harpactopus 
  edwardsi 
  Cameron 
  which 
  

   is 
  described 
  from 
  this 
  region 
  has 
  the 
  tarsal 
  claws 
  with 
  four 
  teeth 
  and 
  

   the 
  second 
  recurrent 
  veins 
  interstitial 
  with 
  the 
  second 
  transverse 
  

   cubitus, 
  and 
  there 
  arc 
  other 
  differences 
  which 
  will 
  separate 
  edwardsi 
  

   from 
  erythrogastra. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  12 
  mm. 
  Inner 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  very 
  slightly 
  

   converging 
  toward 
  the 
  clypeus 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  with 
  apical 
  margin 
  clepressed, 
  

   truncate 
  except 
  a 
  narrow, 
  shallow 
  median 
  notched; 
  clypeus 
  finely 
  

   granular 
  except 
  the 
  median 
  area 
  which 
  is 
  shining 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  large, 
  

   scattered 
  punctures; 
  supraclypeal 
  area 
  triangular 
  in 
  outline, 
  slightly 
  

   convex; 
  head 
  finely 
  granular 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  scattered 
  punctures; 
  

   median 
  impressed 
  line 
  incomplete 
  ; 
  ocelli 
  inclosed 
  by 
  a 
  faint 
  linelike 
  

   furrow; 
  the 
  postoccllar 
  line 
  subcqual 
  with 
  the 
  ocellocular 
  line; 
  intra- 
  

   ocellar 
  line 
  about 
  three-fourths 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  postocellar 
  line; 
  

   antennae 
  filifomi, 
  third 
  joint 
  about 
  one- 
  third 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  fourth; 
  

   mesoscutum 
  granular 
  laterally, 
  the 
  disk 
  shiny, 
  sparsely 
  punctured; 
  

   scutellum 
  shiny, 
  sparsely 
  punctured 
  with 
  a 
  faint 
  impressed, 
  median 
  

   line; 
  propodeum 
  finely, 
  closely 
  granular; 
  a 
  linelike 
  furrow 
  sepa- 
  

   rating 
  off 
  the 
  dorsal 
  aspect 
  into 
  a 
  U-shaped 
  area 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  

   found 
  in 
  the 
  subfamily 
  Sceliphroninae 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  that 
  this 
  

   area 
  is 
  not 
  raised; 
  anterior 
  femora 
  slightly 
  swollen 
  basally; 
  tarsal 
  

   comb 
  present 
  but 
  not 
  uniform; 
  tarsi 
  normal, 
  rather 
  feebly 
  spined; 
  

   claws 
  with 
  two 
  inner 
  teeth 
  near 
  the 
  base; 
  second 
  cubital 
  cell 
  nar- 
  

   rower 
  on 
  the 
  cubitus; 
  first 
  recurrent 
  vein 
  nearly 
  interstitial 
  with 
  

   the 
  first 
  transverse 
  cubitus, 
  second 
  recurrent 
  vein 
  received 
  well 
  into 
  

   the 
  third 
  cubital 
  cell; 
  petiole 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  hind 
  coxa; 
  

   abdomen 
  shiny, 
  the 
  apical 
  ventral 
  segment 
  subcompressed. 
  Black; 
  

   abdomen 
  from 
  the 
  petiole 
  rufous; 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  long 
  

   black 
  hair; 
  the 
  imier 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  below 
  the 
  antennse 
  with 
  

   sparse 
  appressed 
  silvery 
  pubescence; 
  wings 
  bluish, 
  dusky 
  apically; 
  

   venation 
  dark 
  brown. 
  

  

  Cuzco, 
  Peru. 
  Described 
  from 
  one 
  female 
  collected 
  July 
  4, 
  1911, 
  

   at 
  an 
  altitude 
  of 
  11,500 
  feet. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Ca^t. 
  No. 
  15091, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  Genus 
  AMMOBIA 
  Billberg. 
  

   AMMOBIA 
  SPINIGRA 
  (Kohl). 
  

  

  A 
  male 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  collected 
  in 
  the 
  Panama 
  Canal 
  Zone 
  

   June 
  12, 
  1911. 
  

  

  