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separated from the face by rather deep oblique fovea;; 

 labrum triangidar, fimbriated; antennae as long as the 

 bod}- or a little longer, the first flagellar joint much longer 

 than the scape, pedicel and annular joints combined, or 

 one-third longer than the second flagellar joint. 



Thorax smooth, polished, at the most with sparse, mi- 

 croscopic punctures, only visible with a high power lens; 

 scutellum tinged with yellow and with slight lateral carina;, 

 posteriorly rounded; metathorax and lower part of meso- 

 pleura closel}- punctate, the posterior face of metathorax 

 bounded above by a delicate carina; wings with the second 

 discoidal cell a little longer than the third, the discoidal 

 nervure obtusely angularlv bent, but without a trace of a 

 process or stump of the cubital nervure. 



Abdomen about 2^^ times as long as the thorax, com- 

 pressed, smooth, shining, clothed with a fine fulvous down, 

 the petiole one-third longer than the second segment with 

 the elliptic-shaped spiracles placed at two-thirds its length. 



Described from one $ and two ? specimens from El 

 Taste and one ? from El Chinche (Eisen). 



12. Ophion sp. 



One ? specimen (damaged) from San Esteban (Haines). 



Enicospilus Custis. 



13. Enicospilus sp. 



One S specimen from San Jose del Cabo (Eisen), un- 

 fortunately without abdomen and unfit for describing. 



14. Enicospilus sp. 



One $ specimen from San Esteban (Haines), not in 

 condition to be identified. 



Paniscus Gravenhorst. 



15. Paniscus (?) geminatus Say. 



Ophion geminatus Say, Lee. Ed. Say, i, p. 379. 

 Paniscus geminatus Say, Cress. Synopsis, p. 202. 



