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The LELAPS-Grovp 



Black species with the hind coxa and the hind femur black. Wings hyaline. Head rather 

 large, seen from above distinctly wider than the mesoscutum; seen from in front, like that of 

 calliptera (cf. Text-fig. 332). Mouth opening wide, especially in lelaps. Ocelli in a low triangle, 

 the posterior, transverse tangent to the anterior ocellus cutting the posterior pair. 



Key to Species 

 Females 

 A Vannal lobe beyond its widest part very slightly concave and here without projecting 

 hairs ; tergite 1 fully three times as long as wide, virtually parallel-sided ; fore wing 

 with dark apical cloud ; metacarp about twice as long as its distance from the apex 

 of the radial cell ; tergite (2 + 3) with an elongate, parallel-sided basal field, open 

 behind ; surface on each side of this field yellow ; ovipositor sheath with a fine 

 modified apical seta ; scape longer, yellowish as is also the basal part of the 

 flagellum. 



Mesoscutum and scutellum with unusually long, fine whitish pubescence ; 

 mesoscutum strongly shining and smooth except for minute, setiferous punctures ; 

 1st abscissa of the discoideus very slightly shorter than the 2nd ; disc of scutellum 

 behind with a small group of punctures that hardly interrupts the posterior polished 

 band ; hind tibia blackish but whitish at extreme base ; hind coxa large, closely 

 covered with deep punctures, the interspaces very shiny. Length: ca. 5 mm. 



lelaps sp. n. 



Mexico: Vera Cruz, Atoyac, 1 $, the TYPE, (Godman-Salvin). Type in the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 

 B Vannal lobe beyond its widest part straight and throughout with fringe of short 

 hairs ; tergite 1 at most two and a half times as long as wide, more rugose 

 than in lelaps and with more sharply defined median groove on anterior two thirds ; 

 fore wing without an apical cloud ; tergite 2 with two short, lateral furrows and 

 with an elongate raised median field that is not delimited by these furrows ; scape 

 short, black, like the flagellum ; tip of ovipositor sheath with a thickened hair that 

 is not so sharply distinct as in lelaps ; metacarp about two and a half times longer 

 than its distance from the apex of the radial cell. 



Mesoscutum very shiny, distinctly punctate, more especially in front, but the 

 punctures fading out posteriorly ; pubescence normal ; 1st abscissa of the dis- 

 coideus, as in lelaps, very slightly shorter than the 2nd ; hind tibia infuscate but 

 becoming yellowish on about basal third ; posterior tip of the scutellar disc rugose- 

 punctate and completely interrupting the posterior, polished band of scutellum ; 

 hind coxa a little less evenly punctate than in lelaps ; hind spurs yellow ; in lelaps 

 they are brown ; length: ca. 4 mm. ...... duris sp. n. 



Mexico: Guerrero, Tepetlapa, 3,000 ft., vi.i 9. the TYPE, (H. H. Smith), 

 Guerrero, Chilpancingo, 4,600 ft., vi. 1 $, (H. H. Smith). Type in the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Both these species have the face distinctly transverse and the propodeum very 

 coarsely reticulate-rugose. 



The IPPIS-Grovp 

 Monobasic. 



Protomicroplitis ippis sp. n. 



o- Scape and fully basal half of flagellum bright ye!lowish-red. Legs predominantly dark ; 

 hind pair brownish black throughout, including the spurs ; hind coxa blacker than the rest of the 

 leg. Fore wing darkened at apex and with dark patch beneath stigma. 



