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figure 2; anterior to the posterior carina very sparsely foveolate; pos- 

 terior face sharply defined; sides finely striate; abdomen as in carm- 

 mexica but more sparsely punctured; pygidium punctured basally, 

 longitudinally striate in middle, shining apically, broadly rounded 

 apically; last ventral plate rounded apically, very slightly emarginate 

 medially. Black; pubescence white; wings clear hyaline, vitreous; 

 venation dark brown, stigma black. 



Federal District of Mexico. One female received from Prof. G. 

 Gandara. 



Type.— C&L No. 14182, U.S.N.M. 



TIPHIA FULVITARSIS, new species. 



Male^ — Length 5 mm. Clypeus somewhat depressed laterally, 

 medially with a short, produced truncate process, surface with irregu- 

 lar, sometimes confluent, punctures; head transverse, with scattered 

 distinct punctures; ocelli in a low triangle; postocellar line subequal 

 with ocellocular line; scape rather short, much broader apically; 

 pedicellum but little longer than broad, third joint subequal in length 

 with the fourth, antennae beyond the sixth joint wanting; pronotum 

 carinate anteriorly notched in the middle, posterior margin produced 

 in the middle, biarcuately emarginate, anterior part with large, sepa- 

 rate punctures, posteriorly practically impunctate; nautali wanting; 

 mesoscutum depressed medially where the punctures are closer, with 

 large, separate punctures; scutellum punctured like the sides of 

 mesoscutum; metanotum with close, small punctures; dorsal aspect 

 of propodeum finely, subgranular, inclosure sharply defined, trape- 

 zoidal in outline, broader basally, with an indistinct median carina; 

 sides of propodeum with strong longitudinal carinas dorsally, veii- 

 trally finely striatopunctate; propodeal spiracle oval in outline, 

 slightly basad of middle; sternellum acutely triangular, without a 

 median sulcus; first dorsal without a medial transverse carina, very 

 sparsely punctured, posterior margin with a punctate furrow; second 

 dorsal polished, very sparsely punctured; apical part of third and 

 the following dorsal segments with close, distinct punctures; pos- 

 terior trochanter subangulate posteriorly; posterior calcaria slender, 

 but little shorter than the basitarsis; stigma broadly rounded 

 apically, broader apically; radial cell distinctly shorter than the 

 first cubital, angulate at the first transverse cubitus; transverse 

 median slightly basad of basal. Black; anterior tibiae rufo-piceous; 

 tarsi ferruginous; hairs white; wings hyaline, beyond stigma dusky. 



Puira, Peru. One male collected November 1, 1910, by Mr. 

 C. H. T. Townsend. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14142, U.S.N.M. 



