ASIIMKAD: classification of the CHAU'II) fi.iks 111 



The flagelluin is black or brown-black, the scape and pedicel being yellow. The 

 abdomen is conic-ovate, the petiole being abont live times as long as thick. The 

 hind femora are armed with seventeen small teeth. 



Brazil : Santarem. One specimen. 



SiMI.OCHALCIS TRII.INEATA, s]). llliv. 



Female. — Length 5.5 mm. Yellow ; a short line on the middle of the occiput, a 



large spot on the front fixce of the pronotum, a central line on the middle mesotho- 



racic lobe connected with a transverse line anteriorly, an alibreviated line on the 



inner margins of the lateral lobes, a median line on the scutellum, and a line across 



the base, black. The hind femora are armed with seventeen or eighteen minute 



teeth. The abdomen is conic-ovate, the petiole being more than five times as long 



as thick. 



Brazil : Santarem. 



Spilochalcis marshalli, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 6.5-7 mm. Yellow; a line on s(!ai)e above, the tiagellnm, a 

 transverse spot at apex of the scutellum and a -transverse line across the base, an 

 abbi'eviated line along the inner margin of the lateral lobes of the mesonotum, a 

 median line the entire length of the middle lobe, and two triangular spots on the 

 anterior margin (one on each side of the median line), black. The abdomen is fusi- 

 form, the middle dorsal segments more or less blackish, or stained with fuscous, the 

 base and apex, except the sheaths of the ovipositor, always yellow, the petiole being 

 about twice as long as thick. The legs are immaculate, the hind femora armed 

 with one large tooth, followed by al)out fifteen minute black teeth. 



Male. — Length, 4-4.5 mm. Agrees in color with the female, but the body of 

 the abdomen is long ovate, the petiole being a little more than three times as long 

 as thick, while the basal tooth of the hind femora is followed by eighteen or nine- 

 teen minute black teeth. 



West Indies: Trinidad. One female and three male specimens. 



Named in honor of Rev. T. A. Marshall. 



Spilochalcis morleyi, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 5.5 mm. Yellow ; a line on scape above towards the apex, the 

 flagellum, a clavate, central spot on the scutellum connected with a transverse line 

 at base, a line along the inner margins of the lateral mesothoracic lobes, a clavate 

 median line on the middle lobe that is connected with a transverse line anteriorly, 

 a small spot in the mesopleural furrow, the apex of hind coxie, a spot at apex of 

 hind femora, and two or three bands on the dorsum of the alidomen, black. The 

 abdomen is short ovate, or subglobose, the petiole being a little more than three 



