160 THK ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cnemopimpla pilosa, sp. nov. 

 Black ; the fore femora and tibiae bright red ; the head thickly 

 covered with longish, the thorax with shorter, fuscous pubescence ; 

 wings clear hyaline, the stigma and nervures deep black. ? . Length, 

 8 ; terebra, 5 mm. 



Hah. Machachi, 9-10,000 ft. 



Front and vertex shining, smooth ; there is a deep curved furrow 

 in front of the anterior ocellus ; they are covered with long black 

 hair. The face is more thickly covered with longer black hair, and is 

 punctured. The mandibles are shagreened and sparsely punctured at 

 the base. Palpi black and thickly covered with white hair. Meso- 

 notum shining and thickly covered with blackish hair. The scutellum 

 is more sparsely haired, smooth, and shining, as is also the post- 

 scutellnm, which has its basal depression bordered by a keel at the 

 sides, and there are two indistinct ones in the middle. The basal five 

 segments of the abdomen are closely and strongly punctured ; the 

 ventral four basal segments are for the greater part white ; the apical 

 four segments are narrowly edged with white. 



Paniscini. 

 Parabates whymperi, sp. nov. 

 Dark luteous, the eye orbits yellow ; the palpi pale testaceous ; the 

 apex of the mandibles black ; the wings clear hyaline and highly 

 iridescent ; the stigma pale testaceous, the nervures darker. ? . 



Hah. Torfcosillas, Chimborazo, 13,300 ft. 



Face closely punctured, less closely m the middle on the apical 

 half, the apex in the middle impunctate ; the clypeus is more sparsely 

 punctured ; its apex impunctate. Ocellar region blackish ; the front 

 over each antenna fuscous, and with some obscure curved keels. Face 

 and clypeus thickly covered with pale hair ; on the clypeus the hair is 

 much longer. Mesonotum closely punctvired. Scutellum closely and 

 distinctly punctured, its sides distinctly keeled ; the apex less distinctly 

 keeled in the middle. The post-scutellar region thickly covered with 

 longish pale woolly hair. Median segment closely transversely punc- 

 tured. Pleurae closely and uniformly punctured. Legs coloured like the 

 body; the tibiae and tarsi thickly covered with white pubescence. 



CHEYSIDID^. 

 Elampus andinus, sp. nov. 

 Green, largely marked with purple ; the flagellum of the antennae 

 black ; the wings hyaline, their nervures fuscous. $ . Length, 4 mm. 



Hah. Machachi, 9-10,000 ft. 



Scape of antennae purple, the flagellum black, almost bare. Head 

 purple, the vertex behind with rosy tints, in front blue and green, this 

 being also the case with the front, which has a broad shallow furrow 

 in the middle. The vertex, except behind the ocelli, and the front 

 are strongly and closely punctured ; the hinder part of the vertex and 

 the outer orbits are sparsely and finely punctured. The pro- and 



