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as an aberrant subtropical offshoot of a basically temperate assem- 
blage. 
Generic name: Nelophia is derived from the Greek ne -, a nega- 
tive prefix, and lophia, a “crest” or “ridge”. 
i. Nelophia compsa, new species 
Figures 1-4. Map 1. 
Types: Holotype: (female) brazil ( Santa Catarina: Nova Teu- 
tonia, October 1964, Fritz Plaumann) (Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.). Paratypes: (2 females and 1 male) 
brazil ( Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia, 300-500 m., January 8, 
1953, Fritz Plaumann; Rio Grande do Sul: Pelotas, October 9, 
1956, C. Biezanko) (Canadian National Collection, Ottawa, Can- 
ada; Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.). 
Female: Color: antenna black, more or less brownish-stained 
below toward apex, a ventrally more or less incomplete white an- 
nulus on flagellomeres 5 (apex) to n or 12 (in part) ; head, meso- 
soma, and gaster black, rather dully pale reddish more or less as 
follows: often on many cephalic and thoracic sutures; toward lower 
hind-corner of mesopleuron; more broadly on lower or apical 1/2 
of metapleuron ; often slightly on propodeum margining apical white 
bars; on 1st gastric segment broadly below and laterally and some- 
what above near base and often subapically; and sometimes a little 
subapically and on thyridial region of 2nd gastric tergite; the follow- 
ing white: about basal 1/2 of mandible; very large blotch on clypeus; 
most of face ; orbits - — narrowly interrupted opposite anterior ten- 
torial pit, broadened below in front to fuse with white on face, and 
broadened below behind to include almost all of malar space; broad 
anterior margin of pronotum except near apex; broad dorsal margin 
of pronotum except on median 1/3 and sometimes near apex; tegula; 
subalarum; short bar on mesoscutum just above and in part a little 
behind tegula; about anterior 2/3-374 of scutellum; more or less of 
postscutellum ; very large blotch on mesopleuron ; hind-margin of 
mesopleuron ; most of metanotum laterally ; large blotch on apical 
1/2 of metapleuron; small (sometimes vague) to large blotch in 
laterobasal area and elongate blotch on hind-face of propodeum, from 
crista (inclusive) to apex; broad apical band and sometimes more or 
less fragmented lateral stripe on 1st gastric segment; broad lateral 
and somewhat narrower apical (subapical or sometimes wanting on 
2nd tergite) bands on tergites 2-4; and narrower apical bands, 
becoming much broader laterally, on succeeding tergites; fore-coxa 
