ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OF THE CIIALCID FLIES 473 



Kapala atrata (Walker). 

 Thoracantha at rata Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc, London (3), I., 1862, p. 383, cf.— Dalla 

 Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 365. 



Brazil. 



Kapala cynipska (Walker). 



Thommntlia cjjnipsea Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), L, 1869, p. 379, 9d^. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 365. 

 Brazil : Santarem, Villa Nova. 



Kapala DiCERODf:RA (Spinola). 



Eucharls dicerodera Spinola, MeuL accad. sc. Torino (2), XIIL, 1851, p. 43, cf. — 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 360. 



Brazil : Para. 



Kapala reflexa (Walker). 



Thoracantha reflexa Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1862, p. 382, 9.— Dalla 



Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 366. 



Brazil : Santarem (JNIr. Bates). 



Kapala romandii (Guerin). 



Thuravantha rornandli (kier. Iconogr. regn. anim., VIII., Ins., 1845, p. 415. — Dalla 



Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 366. 



Colombia. 



Kapala striatissima (Walker). 



Thoracantha striatissima Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1862, p. 380, 9. — 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 366. 



Brazil : Santarem (Mr. Bates). 



Kapala splendens sp. nov. 



(Plate XXXV., Fig. 4.) 



Female. — Length 8-8.5 mm. Very robust, the head and thorax brilliant me- 

 tallic green, the abdomen blue or blue green, with feneous reflections, usually brassy 

 above, the antennae and the legs except the coxaj, yellowish, the wings subfuscous, 

 the veins brown. The face is longitudinally striate, the striaj becoming transverse 

 below the insertion of the antenna}, the thorax coarsely transversely striate, the 

 scutellum and the scutellar processes longitudinally striate. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April and November. Four specimens. 



This is tlie largest and most brilliant of any Eucharid yet discovered. 



Genus LASIOKAPALA Ashmead. 



Allied to Kapala Cameron, but easily distinguished by being hairy or pubescent, 

 and by the smoothness of the head. The lateral lobes of the mesonotum and the 



