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triangular, smooth, a deep pit at apex ; thorax above, espe- 

 cially on scutellum, clothed with very bright orange-fiilvoin^ 

 hair ; pleura with dull white hair ; tegula3 piceous. Wings 

 hyaline, faintly dusky, stigma dull fulvous, uervures fuscous ; 

 b. n. meeting the oblique t.-m. Legs slender, the hind pair 

 long ; spurs very pale reddish ; hair of legs white. Abdomen 

 broad, moderately shining, tlie hind margins of the segments 

 with conspicuous pale fulvous hair-bands. 



Carcarana, Argentina {L. Bruner, 83), U.S. Nat. Museum. 



Readily known by the bright hair of thorax above. It 

 may be compared with the much larger P. franJdj Friese, 

 from Buenos Aires. 



Pas'phae leucostomn, sp. n. 



c? . — Length about 8*3 mm. ; anterior wing 6. 



Black, the flagellum obscurely brownish beneath ; slender, 

 with rather long and narrow abdomen ; apical half of man- 

 dibles dark chestnut ; face and clypeus densely covered with 

 silky white hair; a smootii shining space on each side of 

 ocelli ; antennae rather short ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 polished and shining, slightly glaucous, with very remote 

 and minute punctures ; area of metathorax large, triangular, 

 the basal part very finely transversely striate, the apical with 

 a deep pit; hair of thorax white, tinged with ochreous 

 dorsal!}'; tegulge piceous. Wings hyaline, faintly dusky, 

 stigma and nervures rufo-fuscous. Legs ordinary, with 

 white hair ; hind legs long and slender. Abdomen without 

 any distinct hair-bands, though the fourth and following 

 segments have thin bands of glittering white hair, which 

 becomes dense at apex; surface of abdomen dullish, glaucous, 

 the second and third sutures obscurely reddish ; fourth and 

 fifth ventral segments with conspicuous fringes of pure white 

 hair. 



Carcarana, Argentina (L. Bruner^ 38, 73). U.S. Nat. 

 Museum. 



Resembles the Chilean P. tristis, Spinola, but that has the 

 abdomen shining and hind margins of segments testaceous. 



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LoncJiopria rvjipenms, sp. n. 



^ (type). — Length about 11 mm.; anterior wing 8*5. 



Black, without metallic tints; head and thorax above with 

 pale ochreous hair ; face, cheeks, and lower part of thorax 

 with creamy-white hair; mandibles reddish apically, bi- 

 dentate ; face broad, inner orbits nearly parallel ; face and 

 front densely covered with hair ; malar space extremely 



