ashmead: classikication of thk chalcid flies 397 



Hcfenmdnum hnKjqics INIayr, Verb. Zool.-but. Gesell. Wien, XXXV., 1885, pp. 234- 

 2;^-), c^. — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 816, ^^9. 

 Brazil : St. ("atliariiia (Dr. Fritz M(iller). 



Subfamily II. Torymin^e. 



Geuus LOCHITES Fcirster. 



LdCHITlCiil AI'RIfEPS Aslllllcail. 



Lochitcs aaricqjti Ashnicad, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., XX., 1.S9-1, p. 153, 9. 

 — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 281. 

 W. I. : St. Vincent, Grenada; Brazil : Chapada, in April. Three specimens. 



Lachites suu'irs (Walker). 



Calliviome sulci US Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II., 1839, p. 04, 9. 

 Tor limns sulcius Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 313. 

 Brazil: Baliia; Chapada, in A jyril. Three specimens. 



Genus SYNTOMASPIS Fiirster. 

 Syntomaspis cabuka (Walker). 

 CaUimome cab urus Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II., 1864, p. 64, 9 c?. 

 Torymus caburus Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 301. 

 Brazil : Bahia (Walker). 



Syntomaspis aprilis, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 2.5 mm. ; ovipositor nearly as long as the body. Blue, with a 

 very faint greenish tinge, the abdomen witli a decided iieneous tinge. Head and 

 thorax shagreened, with a thimble-like punctuation ; ocelli pale ; eyes brown ; 

 scape yellowish, the pedicel jeneous, the flagellum dark brown ; front and middle 

 femora above and the hind femora blue, the front and middle tibia?, their tarsi and 

 the hind tarsi, yellowish, the hind tibite dark brownish. Wings hyaline, the teguUe 

 and veins 3^ellowish. 



Brazil : Caruinba, in April. Two female species. 



Syntomaspis holcaspoidea, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 2 mm. ; ovipositor longer than the abdomen. Robu.st, blue, 

 the head and the thorax with a thimble-like punctuation ; ocelli red, placed nearly 

 in a straight line ; eyes brown ; scape, pedicel, tips of front and middle femora, their 

 tibife and tarsi and the hind tarsi, yellowish, the front and middle femora, except 

 tips, and the hind tibiaj brownish-piceous, the hind femora blue ; flagellum brown- 

 black. Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish. 



