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A. A. Girault: 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; scutum and scutellum 

 purplish bronze, the distal third of scutellum abruptly changing 

 to dark green. Coxae metallic bluish, the femora fuscous, the tibiae 

 brownish yellow, lighter at tips, the tarsi whitish. Scape fulvous 

 (also posterior femur), the rest of the antennae very dark brown. 

 Three ring-joints, the first funkle joint thrice the length of the 

 pedicel, longest of the funicle (third ring- joint twice the size of 

 the others) ; pedicel of usual length (antennae distad of third funicle 

 joint and the abdomen missing). Head and thorax finely, densely 

 punctate. Marginal vein very long. 



(From one specimen, 2 / 3 -inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from one female, minutien-mounted, labelled „San 

 Bernardino. K. Fiebrig, S. V. 21. V." 

 Habitat: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 



Type: Zool. Mus., Berlin, the above specimen and a slide 

 bearing a posterior leg and the antennae. 

 2. Apocerus pax new species. 

 Female: Length, 2,65 mm. 



Black or nearly, the pronotum, propodeum and metathorax 

 and the abdomen dark metallic green, the latter with purplish 

 reflections. Wings hyaline, the tegulae and venation yellow brown. 

 Legs concolorous, the tips of tibiae and tarsi white. Antennae 

 yellow brown, the pedicel longer than in the preceding species. At 

 least one mandible 4-dentate. Scutellum uniform in eolor. 

 (From one specimen, the same magnification.) 



Male: Not known. 



Described from one female similarly mounted and labelled 

 „San Bernardino, 4. III. K. Fiebrig, S. V." 

 Habitat: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 



Type: Zool. Mus., Berlin, the above specimen with a slide 

 bearing posterior leg and the head. 



Metastenini. 



Halticopteroides new genus. 



Female: Like Halticoptera Spinola but the antennae 14- 

 jointed, with three ring-joints, the mandibles 3- and 4-dentate; 

 club 4-jointed. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Cephalic 

 ocellus within the broad, obtuse scrobicular cavity, the antennae 

 inserted above the middle of the face. Head wider than long, wider 

 than the thorax. Propodeum with a median carina and produced 

 into a short neck which looks like a short abdominal petiole. Second 

 abdominal segment, occupying half the surface. Pronotum distinct- 

 ly separated. 



Male : Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



