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Macroteleia kiefferi n. nov. 
Macroteleia rufipes Kieffer, Berliner Entom. Zeit. Vol. 50, p. 264 
(1905), nec Cameron, Invertebrata Pacifica, Vol. 1, p. 52 (1904). 
By a queer coincidence Kieffer described this species from 
Nicaragua as rufipes, overlooking Cameron's description of rufipes, 
which is also from Nicaragua, both species having been collected 
by Professor Baker. 
The two are apparently distinct, kiefferi differing by the quad- 
rate joints of the antennal club, which are plainly transverse in 
rufipes. The latter species also has a longer abdomen. 
Sparaison graenicheri sp. nov. 
Female. Length 4.5 mm. Black, coarsely rugose, but still rathei 
shining ; tibiae and tarsi reddish. Head seen from above as wide as 
long, the frontal ledge on the same plane as the vertex with a broad 
sulcus along its anterior margin. Surface of head very coarsely rugose- 
punctate, the under side of the ledge transversely arcuately striated. 
Mandibles and palpi black. Antennae black, scape much swollen at the 
tip below, slender at the base, about four times as long as the pedicel, 
the latter two-thirds the length of the first flagellar joint ; second to 
seventh flagellar joints about equal, quadrate, or slightly transverse, 
the second narrower at the base ; eighth, ninth and apical joints of 
equal length but growing narrower. Collar and mesonotum sparsely 
and deeply punctate, shining, parapsidal furrows indicated only by a 
series of more or less separated punctures, the scapulae with a slight, 
weakly defined groove. Scutellum about two times as wide as long, 
coarsely confiuently punctate, except for a median smooth space. Post- 
scutellum longitudinally spined. Metathorax emarginate behind, the 
posterior angles distinct but not much produced ; its upper face with a 
series of six longitudinal carinoe. Abdomen elongate oval, almost as 
long as the head and thorax together ; strongly longitudinally striate, 
the tip punctate. Venter shining, coarsely and sparsely punctate, the 
sutures crenulate. First segment wider than long; second to sixth 
decreasing in length ; seventh rounded at the tip. Legs black, whitish 
hairy ; anterior tarsi and tibiae reddish, the latter strongly spinous ; 
posterior tibiae and tarsi fuscous or piceous. Wings strongly infus- 
cated, the submarginal vein not united with the stigma ; postmarginal 
ill-defined, as long as the thin, curved and knobbed stigmal ; radial 
nervure indicated except at the tip. 
