NO. 237S. 



ASIIAIEAD'8 PARASITIC CYNI PIDAE—WELD. 



441 



Type.— Cat. No. 23652, U.S.N.M. Type female, allotype, one 

 female paratype with parts on slide. 



Type, locality. — Brazil: Chapada (H. H. Smith, collector). 



Genus ODONTEUCOILA Ashmead. 



Odonteucoila Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 222; Psyche, vol. 

 10, 1903, pp. 64, 71.— Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Daa Tierreich, Lief. 24*1910, pp. 

 102, 888.— Rohwer and Fagan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, 1917, p. 371. 



Odontoeucoila (typographical error) Ashmead, Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, p. 64 last line. 



Genotype. — Odonteucoila chapadae Ashmead. Monobasic. 



Disk of scutellum rugose and prolonged into a tapering blunt spine 

 extending horizontally back- 

 ward but not reaching be- 

 yond hind end of propodeum. 

 Cup narrow, not reaching 

 three-fourths way back to 

 end of scutellum, with the 

 usual pit near hind margin 

 and a slight elevation and a 

 few punctures in front of it. 

 Head broader than thorax, 

 cheeks not margined, malar 

 space less than half eye, an- 

 tennae arising above middle 

 of eyes, long, filiform, with 

 the third segment shorter 

 than fourth and 4-6 long- 

 cylindrical, flagellum grad- 

 ually thickened toward apex 

 without distinct club. Wing 

 with closed marginal cell, 

 pubescent and ciliate. Ab- 

 domen with hairy ring at 

 base. 



Related to Trissodontaspis 

 Ashmead whose cup extends 

 to tip of scutellum and whose 

 axillae form prominent teeth in either side. In the other two genera 

 with scutellum ending in a spine (Gonieucoela Kieffer and Acanth- 

 eucoela Ashmead), the spine is produced on the sloping surface of 

 the cup in front of the usual pit and not made by a prolongation of 

 the disk of the scutellum. 



ODONTEUCOILA CHAPADAE Ashmead. 

 Odonteucoila chapadae Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, p. 222 (sine desc); 

 Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, p. 64 (sine desc). — Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Das Tierreich, 

 Lief. 24, 1910, p. 102. 



Female. — Dark red, head and distal part of antennae infuscated, 

 legs yellowish. Head polished, thorax micro-aciculate yet shining 



Fig. 4.— Details of Odonteucoila chapadae Ashmeai>. 



