402 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



PODAGEIOX MELLEUS (WestWOod). 



Palmon meUeus Westwood, Trans. Eut. Soc. London, IV., 1S47, p. 260. 

 Podagrion mellens Walker, Notes on Chalc, Pt. 2, 1871, p. 28. — Dalla Torre, Cat. 

 Hym., v., 1898, p. 369. 



Brazil. 



Host. Orthop.: eggs of Mantis hrasiliana L. 



PODAGKION CTAXECS, sp. noV. 



Female. — Length about 3 mm. Blue (sometimes bronzed green above) ; the 

 antennae, except the cluVj which is black, the legs, except the coxse basally and the 

 -front and hind femora at basal two thirds which are blue, the abdomen along 

 the venter and at apex, are yellowish. "Wings hyaline, the tegulse yellow, the veins 

 light brown. The flagellum is long, .strongly clavate, while the swollen hind femora 

 are armed with from ten to twelve teeth. 



Brazil : Santarem. One specimen. 



Differs fi-om P. bra-'nliensis Howard in color and by the more numerous teeth on 

 the hind femora. 



Family LXII. CHALCIDID.E. 

 Subfamily I. Leucospidi>'.e. 



Genus POLISTOMORPHA Westwood. 



POLISTOMOEPHA FA.=CIATA \VestwOOd. 



PoUstomorpha fasciata Westwood, Thes. Eut. Oxon., 1874, p. 134; PL XXV., f 3.— 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 405. 

 Brazil : Amazon. 



POLISTOMOEPHA .spHEGOIDE-S Walker. 



PoU.stomorpha sphegoides V^'alkeT, Journ. Ent., I., 1860-61, p. 22. — Westwood. Thes. 

 Ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 134 ; PI. XXV., fig. 1.— Schletterer, Berlin, ent. Zeitschr., 

 XXV., 1890, p. 297.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hpn., V., 1898, p. 405. 

 Brazil. 



POLISTOMORPHA SCBIXAMESSIS WeStWOOd. 



Polkiomorpha surinaraemis Westwood, Germar, Zeitsch. f. Entom., I., 1839, p. 265, 

 O. —Westwood, Thes. Ent. Oxon, 1874, p. 133; PI. XXV., f. 2.— Schletterer, 

 Berlin, ent. Zeitschr., XXV., 1890, p. 295.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 

 1898, p. 405. 

 Brazil : Surinam. 



