CHARLES W. HOOKER. 105 



type of Tipulophion gigas Kriech. Strassburg Zoological 

 Museum, Honduras ; Brazil, Orobo in Bahia, Theresapolis in 

 Santa Catharina. 



Athyreodon fulvescens (Cress.). 

 Thyreodon fulvescens Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., IV, p. 46, 



c?, Cuba 1865. 



Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 354 1900. 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Ill, p. 185 1901. 



" " Szepligeti, Gen. Ins., Hym., 34nie Fasc, p. 



25, n. 9 1905. 



Fulvous ; antenncE fulvous ; ocelli large ; wings hyaline to fulvous 

 with the apex fuscous, basal half of secofid abdominal segment black 

 above. 



Length, 25-27 mm. ; wing, 17-18 mm. ; spread, 36-39 mm. ; antennae, 

 17 mm. 



Reddish-brown coated with yellowish pubescence ; face, eyes, back 

 of head and mandibles, except the tips, yellow ; vertex and ocelli flav- 

 ous ; ocelli large, eyes slightly emarginate, tinged with ferruginous ; 

 antennae two-thirds the length of the body; clypeal foveae deep, cly- 

 peus with a distinct point, surmounted by a median prominence ; 

 thorax smooth and shining or finely and indistinctly punctured ; meso- 

 notum with deep parapsidal furrows converging toward the scutellum ; 

 pleurae smooth and shining ; scutellum tinged with yellow ; meta- 

 thorax opaque, fiat behind, and indistinctly rugose ; more coarsely 

 reticulate on the sides; median furrow shallow. 



Wings hyaline to bright fiavous, with the apex fuscous ; stigma lack- 

 ing; discocubital vein arcuate, nervulus interstitial, nervellus broken 

 above the middle ; first recurrent vein one-half the length of the 

 second; legs fulvous, tibiae and tarsi slightly paler; abdomen elon- 

 gate, strongly compressed, smooth and shining ; the basal half of the 

 second segment black above; anal valves long (2 mm.), slender and 

 obtusely pointed. 



In describing this species I have examined the type c^. 

 Type. — (f . No. 69, American Entomological Society. 



Athyreodon aruistroiigi n. sp. 



Fulvo-ferruginous ; dorsum of second abdominal segment black ; wings 

 hyaline, with most of the radial cell and a band along the basal vein 

 black. 



Length, 37 mm. ; wing, 26 mm., spread, 56 mm. ; antennae, 25 

 mm. 



Fulvo-ferruginous, closely and densely punctured ; vertex of the gen- 

 eral color; ocelli large, somewhat separated, but almost filling the 



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