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than tlie scape. The hind femora are armed with 7 moderate-sized teeth. The 

 head and thorax, except the pronotum laterally, the middle lobe of the me- 

 sonotum and the mesopleura beneath the insertion of the front wings, which 

 are smooth and shining, Avith only a few punctures, are closely punctate or sculp- 

 tured. 



Brazil : Chapada, Para, and Santarem. Five specimens. 



Genus PSEUDOCHALCIS Kiiby. 



PSEUDOCHALCIS DECLARATOR (Walker). 



HaUialUt dedavatnr Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 18G2, p. 360, 9. 

 Pseud oc] I ah- IS dechtmtor Kiriiy, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, X\^IL, p. GL — Dalla 

 Torre, ( Vat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 394. 

 Brazil: Ega. 



P.SEITDOCHALCIS C'ONIC.\ sp. IIOV. 



Female. — Length 4.5-5 mm. Black, coarsely punctate, the tegulaj, tips of 

 femora, the front tibiai, except a black spot behind, middle and hind tibite, except a 

 broad black annulus at the middle, and all tarsi sulphur yellow, the aljdomen con- 

 ically pointed, longer than the head and thorax united. 



Brazil : Santarem, in March and jAIay. Four specimens. 



PSEUUOCHALCIS FLAVOPICTA, sp. nov. 



31ale. — licngth 5.5 mm. Black, coarsely punctate, the front orbits, face below 

 insertion of the antenna, scape, two large spots on dorsum of pronotum, a line on 

 each side of the middle mesothoracic lobe, a spot on the outer front angle of the 

 lateral lobes, a line on each side of the scutellum, the teguhe, a line on the meso- 

 pleura, a large spot on the metapleura, a spot at apex of metanotum, a large spot on 

 each side of second segment of abdomen, and the legs, except as noted, yellow, the 

 hind coxie with a large spot above at base, and a large spot on the disk of the hind 

 femora, black. 



Brazil : (Joruinba and Santarem. Three specimens. 



Gcuus STYPIURA Kirby. 



Stypiura conigastra (Perty). 



Chalcis conigastra Perty, Delect, aniiii. artic, 1834, p. 134; PI. XX\'I., f. 16. — 



Spinola, Mem. accad. sc. Toriiio Cl). .\II1., 1851, p. 44. 

 Comtra conigastra Blanchard, Hist. nut. Ins., 111., 1810, p. 256. 

 Halticella erythrotehis Walker, Journ. Kntoin., L, 1861, p. 184. 

 Phasgonophora conigastra Sichel, Ann. Soc. ent. France (4), V., 1865, p. 363. 



