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AsTiPHROMMA Forster. 



20. ASTIPHROMMA MEXICANUS Sp. n. 



? . — Length 8 mm. Ferruginous, face yellowish; 

 orbits to ocelli, mandibles, palpi, tegula? and prosternum, 

 whitish; antennae slender, tapering toward tips and longer 

 than the body; face finely punctate; metathorax distinctly 

 regularly areolated; wings hyaline, the stigma and vena- 

 tion dark brown, the former with a white spot at base; 

 abdomen about as long as the head and thorax together, 

 compressed, polished, the petiole about one-fourth longer 

 than the second segment, with a slight sulcus above; 

 ovipositor not quite as long as the basal joint of hind 

 tarsus, the sheaths stout or broad; claws pectinated. 



Described from one ? specimen, from El Chinche 

 (Eisen). 



Subfamily CEYPTIN.E. 



21. Mesostenus eisenii sp. n. 



? . — Length 9 mm; ovipositor not quite as long as the 

 abdomen. Head, except anterior orbits, the clypeus and 

 trophi, prothorax, except hind margin, and mesonotum, 

 except lateral margins, black; antennal joints 8 to 12 

 above, anterior orbits, lateral margins of mesonotum, 

 tegular and a short line beneath, white; basal two joints 

 of antenme, clypeus, trophi, scutellum and rest of the 

 thorax and the abdomen, rufous. 



Head and thorax punctate, the metathorax indistinctly 

 areolated; wings subhyaline, the venation brown; abdo- 

 men slender, longer than the head and thorax united, 

 highly polished, impunctate. 



Described from a single ? specimen, from El Taste, 

 3,400 feet altitude (Eisen). 



2d Ser., Vol. IV, ( 9 ) April 25, 1894. 



