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middle coxas. Mesosternum behind the front coxae with strongly 

 elevated, forwardly projecting, transverse tubercles. Propodeum reti- 

 culate; médian, basai mesh reaching the apex of the dorsal surface. 

 Second tergite impunctate medially. Tooth of first sternite strong, 

 truncate behind and sloping anteriorly. Second sternite slightly elev- 

 ated in the middle at base. Seventh sternite with weak latéral teeth; 

 the eighth with a strong ridge which parallels the side margin. Last 

 tergite with a médian polished, impunctate strip which is not elevated; 

 apex broadly subtruncate. 



Female. — Black; dorsum, upper edge of the pleurse, and posterior 

 face of propodeum dull red. A white, discal spot of pubescence on 

 each side of second tergite; a broadly interrupted, apical band on 

 the third; an apical spot on each side of the fourth; and white set as 

 on the last tergite. 



Length : 12 mm. 



Clypeus extending upward in a carina between the antennae; with 

 an upper, transverse, erect tubercle, below which run oblique ridges 

 terminating abruptly on the sides and enclosing a sloping, depressed, 

 impunctate, médian area. Sides of the thorax somewhat concave, not 

 widened posteriorly; propodeum abruptly truncate. Pygidial area 

 with a distinct médian lobe which is not wrinkled but finely shagree- 

 ned, separating at an obtuse angle from the latéral expanding edges; 

 the disk of the pygidium with rather fine, longitudinal, but somewhat 

 wrinkly and irregular ridges, converging and confluent from the 

 base toward the apex. 



Smicromyrme (Glossotilla) garuana (Bischoff). 



Trogaspidia garuana Bischoff, i920,Arch. f. Naturgesch., LXXXVI, 

 Abt. A, Heft 3, p. 423 (cT). 



The clypeus of this species is of a rather distinctive type. The upper 

 elevated portion is very coarsely rugose-punctate and uniformly 

 gibbose, so that there is no distinction between its latéral and médian 

 surfaces; and this punctate area extends downward on each side en- 

 closing th; sides of a very small, impressed basin, from which it is 

 separated by a polished rounded ridge. The impressed basin is trans- 



