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The thorax is brownish-yellow marked with black as follows : The middle meso- 

 thoracic lobe has two oblong, nearly confluent, spots anteriorly, the lateral lobes 

 have a spot above, while the scutellum has a transverse line across the base and a 

 central line ending on the two spines at the apex of the scutellum, black. The 

 abdominal petiole and the legs are yellow. 



Brazil : Santarem, in April. One specimen. 



• Genus SCHIZASPIDEA Westwood. 



SCHIZASPIDEA MACULATA WestWOod. 



Schizaspidea f macakita Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 153, 9; PI. 28, f 1. 

 Orasema macnlata Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Ivondon, ZooL, XX., 1886, p. 29. — Dalla 

 Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 361. 

 Brazil. 



SCHIZASPIDEA PRETENDENS Walker. 



Schizaspidea inetendms Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), 1., 1862, p. 385, cf. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 364. 

 Brazil : Chapada, in INIay. One specimen, badly damaged. 



Genu.s TETRAMELIA Kirby. 

 Tetramelia meridionalis Kirby. 



Tetramelia meridionalis Kirby, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), IV., 1889, p. 144, 9.— 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 364. 



Brazil. 



Tetramelia plagiata (Walker). 



(Plate XXXV, Fig. 1.) 



Schizaspidia pla()iata Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), L, 1862, p. 385, cf. — 

 Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 152; PI. 28, f 11. 



Tetramelia plagiata Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., XX., 188G, p. 31. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 364. 

 Brazil : Chapada, in November. One male specimen. 



Genus THORACANTHA Latreille. 



TlKlUAfAXTHA LATltEILl.KI Guerill. 



Thoracantha latreillei Guer. Iconogr. Regn. an. Ins., VII., 1829-44, p. 415; PI. 



LXVIL, f 8.— Blanchard, Hist. nat. Ins., IIL, 1840, p. 257.— Walker, Ann. 



& Mag. Nat. Hist., XII., 1843, p. 45, 9.— Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London 



Zool., XX., 1886, p. 32.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., X., 1898, p. 365. 

 Thoracantha coleopteroides (Watcrhouse) Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, II., 



1839, p. 196. 

 Galearia violacca Brulle, Hist. nat. Ins., Hym., I\'., 1846, p. 572. 



