Hymenoptera from Central America. 273 



Trigonalys Championij sp. n. 



Triqonnlys Championi, Cameron, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Hymen, i. t. xx. 

 fig. 24. 



Nigra, ore, coxis, trochanteribus, basi femorum, segmento mediali 



petiolique albis ; alis violaceis. 

 Long, 11 millim. (S . 



Hah. Guatemala, Panlma in Vera Paz {Champion). 



AnteniiEe as long as the head, thorax, and petiole united, 

 moderatelj stout, entirely black, covered with a short pale 

 down ; the third joint as long as the fourth. Head densely 

 covered with white hair ; the front strongly punctured ; the 

 antennal tubercles, the clypeus, and the base of the mandibles 

 yellowish white, the edge of the mandibles and the mandi- 

 bular teeth black ; the apex of the clypeus incurved. Thorax 

 above thickly covered with fuscous hair, coarsely rugosely 

 punctured, the punctures running into reticulations on the 

 median segment ; the median segment with the punctures 

 more widely separated and with a wide and deep furrow at 

 the base ; the pleurse densely covered with fuscous hair, the 

 mesopleura3 closely punctured, the propleurge more strongly 

 punctured and with a pale yellow pear-shaped mark in fiont ; 

 the metapleurse closely punctured, more strongly in the middle, 

 its apex broadly pale yellow, the part in front of the stigma 

 being black. The petiole is entirely pale Ismon-yellow, 

 shining, impunctate, sparsely covered with long white hair ; 

 the other abdominal segments are entirely black, strongly 

 punctured, covered with short black pubescence, the apex 

 with the pubescence longer and white ; the ventral segments 

 are covered with long soft white hair. Legs covered with 

 white hair. The fore wings are entirely deep violaceous ; 

 the hinder pair clear hyaline, with the apex broadly viola- 

 ceous. 



Fam. Proctotrupidae. 



Subfam. Betsylinje. 



Epyria orizahce, sp. n. 



Long. 7-8 millim. J . 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba (//. //. Smith and F. D. Godman), 

 Very nearly related to E. rugifrons^ Cam., from the Pacific 

 slope of Guatemala, but smaller, less robust, the head coarsely 

 punctured behind the ocelli (in E. rugifrons there is an im- 

 punctate space behind them), tiie middle lobe of the meso- 



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