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tinct punctures; third cubital cell subequal with the second on the 

 radius; transverse radius interstitial with second transverse cubitus; 

 abdomen normal. Black, mandibles (apicies piceous), clypeus, 

 posterior orbits, most of face below ocelli, three hnes on vertex, 

 tegulse, line on pronotum, posterior part of anterior lobe scutellum, 

 and lines connecting these two spots, most of episternum, venter, 

 sides of dorsum, all the legs beneath yellowish. Wings dusky 

 hyaline, venation pale brown. 



District of Columbia. One female from beating on pine, April 26, 

 1903, collected by A. D. Hopkins. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13983, U.S.N.M. 



Genus DERECYTRA Smith. 



DERECYTRA VARHPENNIS, new species. 



Perhaps more closely related to D. pictipennis than any other 

 species, but it is not that species. 



Male. — Length 14 mm. Anterior margin of the clypeus with a 

 median tooth; mandibles short, robust, with large separate punc- 

 tures; inner orbits striate; produced area of the front, depressed 

 above medianly, sliining, laterally irregularly striate; head behind 

 the supraorbital line shining, impunctate; postocellar area nearly 

 wanting not parted; fourth antennal joint longer than the third or 

 fifth; middle lobe of mesonotum and lateral part of the lateral lobes 

 transversely striate; anterior part of lateral lobes rather closely, 

 distinctly punctured; scutellum rather coarsely, irregularly sculp- 

 tured; mesoepisternum above stria to-punctate, below and with the 

 mesosternum punctate; second cubital cell much longer than the 

 third; hypopygidium with the apical margin truncate, in the mid- 

 dle slightly emarginate. Rvifo-piceous ; antennre black; posterior 

 femora and apical dorsal segments darker. Wings brownish black, 

 with a yellowish spot in the area surrounding the stigma. 



San Bernardino, Paraguay. One male collected by K. Fiebrig. 



Type.—Qsii. No. 13984, U.S.N.M. 



Genus HAPLOSTEGUS Konow. 

 HAPLOSTEGUS MEXICANUS, new species. 



Black, except the mesonotum and scutellum wliich is rufous; 

 wings brown, venation black. 



Male. — Length 4 mm. Clypeus very small, apex truncate; a 

 rather distinct transverse suture above the clypeus; antennal fur- 

 rows distinct, continuous; middle fovea rather large, oval in outline, 

 the sides sloping, extending laterally; anterior ocellus in an indis- 

 tinct depression; postocellar furrow poorly defined; postocellar line 

 but Uttle longer than the ocelloccipital line; antennae gradually 



