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nietallic green ; the scape, tegula^, veins and most of the legs, except the coxii" and 

 the femora, are yellowish, the coxse and the hind femora are blue, the fi-ont and 

 middle femora above and basally are brownish. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April; Para, in June. Two female specimens. 



ToKYMUS SYLYICOI.A, Sp. IKIV. 



FdiKili. — Length 8 mm. ; ovipositor about the length of the body. Head and 

 thorax metallic green, rather coarsely shagreened, the metathorax blue, the abdo- 

 men teneous, with a ])rownish shade; scape and pedicel yellowish, the flagellum 

 light brown; legs, except the hind coxae at l)asal two thirds which are metallic 

 greenish, all brownish-yellow. Wings hyaline, the teguhe and the veins pale 

 yellowish. 



Brazil : (Jhapada, in forests in April and October. Two specimens. 



Subfamily III. Monodontomerin.e. 



Genus MONODONTOMERUS Westwood. 

 MONODONTOMERUS PHORMio (Walker). 

 Torymus plwrmlo Walker, Ann. &, Mag. Nat. Hist., X., 1842, p. 113, 9. — 8pinola, 

 Gay: Hist. fis. Chile, ZooL, VI., 1851, p. 466.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 

 1898, p. 311. 

 Monodontomerus phonnio Walter, Notes on Chalc, II, p. 28. 

 Chile : Valparaiso. 



Genu.s DIAMORUS Walker. 



This genus should occur in South Amei'ica, Imt I have seen no representatives 

 of it in any of the collections examinccl by nie. The species recorded and described 

 by Dr. Mayr as Diamoms i-esemble genuine species very t-losely, but they really rep- 

 resent the females of Mayr's genus Physothorax. 



Genus PHYSOTHORAX Mayr. 

 Physothorax annuliger Mayr. 

 riiysotlioni.r ,nnn,r,,jrr Mayr, Verb. Zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, XXXV., 1885, p. 198, 

 c?.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 321. 

 Brazil : St. Catharina. 



PllY.SOTHORAX lil AKTICl'I.ATU.S (Mayr). 



Nannocerus hioHicula(u.i Mayr, \'erh. Zool.-l)ot. Gesell. Wien, XXXV., 1885, p. 196, 

 d^.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 321. 

 Brazil : St. Catharina. 



