218 EMBRIK STRAND, 
shallowly punetured. smooth at the base, the fifth segment rugose 
at the apex. Pygidium and sides of the abdomen -with very sparse 
cinereous pubescence. 
Fuscous or fusco-ferruginous; a large spot on each side round 
the base of the antennae ochraceous; the sides of the head, the 
tibiae and tarsi ferruginous; head and thorax almost black. 
Length 2 8-10 mm, 4 16—19 mm. 
Hab. Porto Allegre, S. Brazil (Kıus); Theresopolis and Santa 
Catarina (from H. Rorre). In the British Museum. AsHmEAD founds 
the genus Klugianus for Thynnus haematodes Kruc, which Kıuc 
describes as very close to vulpinus. He says that the first trans- 
verse eubitus is without an appendage. I have not seen haematodes, 
but from Kıuc’s figures of both sexes it does not appear‘ to differ 
much from vulpinns, and I consider that the name Klugianus should 
sink. These are the only two Brazilian species which I think can 
be correctly placed in Elaphroptera; they approach more nearly to 
the E. atra group (Pycnothynnus, Asmm.), than to the type of the 
genus. FE. scoliaeformis Han. 
Family Seolüdae. 
Plesia anisitsi n. SP. 
9. Clypeus very finely punctured, with a longitudinal carina 
from the base not reaching the apex; head shining, the front closely, 
the vertex very sparsely punctured, alongitudinal frontal suleus which 
does not reach the anterior ocellus. Thorax strongly and rather 
closely punctured, more sparsely on the mesonotum, the propleurae 
and sides of the median segment finely obliquely striated; pronotum 
nearly as wide as the head and longer than the mesonotum; 
median segment rugose, the surface of the posterior truncation shining 
and very finely aciculate. Abdomen shining and almost smooth, 
with minute punctures. Pygidium broadly rounded at the apex, 
longitudinally striated, the striae diverging slightly at the apex. 
Black; the anterior margin of the elypeus, except at the extreme 
apex, the scape of the antennae above, the interantennal prominence 
broadly connected with the inner margin of the eyes, the outer 
margin of the eyes narrowly continued on the posterior margin 
of the head, the anterior margin of the pronotum broadly interrupted 
in the middle, the posterior margin, a large spot on the mesonotum, 
a small one just above and behind the tegulae, the base and apex 
