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Psyche 
[December 
tion, but also because the apical portion of the abdomen is strongly 
depressed, suggesting some of the apterous Pristocerini. The head 
is less elongate and flattened than is usual in this genus. 
Holotype. — brazil: Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, July 17, 
1937 (F. Plaumann) [BMNH]. 
Description of female type. — Length 6.0 mm; LFW 3.5 mm. 
Head and thorax dark blue-green; propodeum black; abdomen shining 
black except apical third bright ferruginous; mandibles and antennae 
wholly rufo-testaceous ; legs testaceous except all coxae fuscous, hind 
femora medium brown ; wings subhyaline. Mandibles bidentate, the 
outer tooth sharp, the inner tooth broad and blunt. Clypeus broadly 
angulate, the median carina nearly straight in profile. Antennae 
compact, segments three and eleven each slightly longer than wide. 
Head only slightly higher than wide, WH .97 X LH ; eyes large, 
prominent, protruding; front convex, with a linear impression on the 
lower fourth. WF subequal to HE ; ocelli in about a right triangle, 
OOL 1. 1 X WOT; bottom of anterior ocelli on a line with the 
eye tops, the vertex broadly rounded off a distance above the eye tops 
equal to only about one third X HE. Front strongly alutaceous be- 
low, the punctures separated by little more than their own diameters; 
at the level of the ocelli the front is less strongly alutaceous and the 
punctures more widely spaced. Thoracic dorsum weakly alutaceous, 
wholly covered with small punctures except the scutellar disc im- 
punctate; pronotal disc about 1.6 X as long as mesoscutum; scutellar 
pits oblique, elongate, separated by 1.3 X their own length. Pro- 
podeal disc about as long as wide, with three strong, complete discal 
carinae plus lateral carinae, between these five carinae with weak, 
irregular transverse striae; posterior angles weakly foveolate. Meso- 
pleura pleura shining, with small punctures; upper fovea small but 
well defined, lower fovea large, broadly open above. Front femora 
slender, 2.3 X as long as wide; middle tibiae with dense, short 
spines above; claws with a strong, erect tooth, the outer ray curved 
so as to be nearly parallel to the tooth. Abdomen depressed through- 
out, but more especially so on the apical half, the last segment very 
thin in lateral view. 
Epyris crassipes n. sp. 
This distinctive species appears to be one of the commoner elements 
in the Epyris fauna of southeastern Brazil. It is a glossy, black species 
having unusually robust femora in both sexes and having the pro- 
podeal sculpturing largely restricted to a basal triangle. 
