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low. Antenne 14-jointed, as long as the body, black, scape 
pear-shaped, thicker at the extremity than the flagellum, half 
as long as the third joint; second joint annular, third to 
thirteenth of equal length, about four times as long as broad ; 
terminal joint half as long again as the preceding and pointed 
at the tip; the antenne are clothed with short hairs, most 
distinctly so towards the tip, and all the joints are well sepa- 
rated ; all the joints except the scape, which is smooth and 
shining, are dull black and longitudinally striated. Head 
with a fovea behind each ocellus, the hindermost falling 
away to the occiput. 
Prothorax transverse, with two contiguous fovez in the 
middle above, and the sides clothed with grey hairs; meso- 
thorax with the edges raised, and with four distinct and con- 
verging depressions above, the two innermost only reaching 
to the middle; scutellum with the edges raised, two large 
fovez at the base, and a strong carina rising between them 
and running to the extremity of the long and strong spine ; 
the mesothorax and scutellum with scattered raised bristles ; 
metathorax clothed with grey hair. 
Abdomen mostly black, smooth and shining, the first seg- 
ment black, opaque, short, and very strongly longitudinally 
striated, the second segment inclining to rufous and longitu- 
dinally striated at the base; the remaining joints are smooth, 
the third occupying three fourths of the length of the abdo- 
men, the apical segments very short. 
Legs dull red, slender, except the coxa, which are thick- 
ened at the base; sparingly clothed with whitish diverging 
bristles ; tibiee with two slender yellow spines at the tips; 
first joint of tarsi as long as the rest, the three following nar- 
rowed at their bases; a long pointed pulvilius between the 
claws. 
Wings hyaline; fore wings slightly smoky, venation 
normal. 
Hah. Theresopolis (friihstorfer). 
Allied to A. rujipes, Cress., from Cuba; but this species is 
only 1? lines in length, and has reddish antenne. 
Chalcidide. 
CHALCIDIN. 
Smicra gracilis. 
Long. corp. 5 millim., exp. al. 10 millim. 
Head above and behind, thorax, and hind femora black ; 
eyes green; face (except mentum), scape of antenne beneath, 
