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scutellum, including the long processes, are also smooth, not striate ; the scutellar 

 processes are transversely striate or serrate at their apices. 



Lasiokapala serrata, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XXXV., Fig. 5.) 



Female. — Length 3.5 nnn. ^Eneous black ; the antennte, the long scutellar 

 processes and the legs are honey-yellow. The head in front is smooth without 

 strise ; the thorax is hairy or pubescent, perfectly smooth, except the middle meso- 

 thoracic lobe above which is coarsely, transversely striate ; the middle lobe and the 

 scutellum have a deep depression on their disks ; while the long scutellar processes 

 are smooth to near their ajnces, their apices or tips above are laterally transversely 

 striate or serrate. 



Brazil : Chapada. 



Family LXV. MISCOGASTERID^E. 

 Subfamily I. Pirenin^. 



Genus HERBERTIA Howard. 



Herbertia howardi, sp. nov. 



(Plate XXXV., Fig. 6.) 



Female. — Length 2.4 mm. Blue black, the thorax above with a slight seneous 

 tinge ; eyes very large, brown, pubescent ; scape honey-yellow, the flagellum brown- 

 black ; tibiee and tarsi pale yellow. The head and thorax above are shagreened or 

 feebly punctate, pubescent ; the mesopleuron has a broad, rather deep sulcus ; the 

 wings are hyaline, the veins brownish, the stigmal vein very small, the marginal 

 vein very long, while the postmarginal vein is also long. The abdomen is ovate, a 

 little longer than the thorax, the first body segment being the longest and occupying 

 nearly the half of the whole surface, the following segments very short, subequal 

 in length. 



Brazil : Rio de Janeiro in August. One specimen. 



Herbertia brasiliensis, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 1.6 mm. Head and thorax bluish, the abdomen geneous 

 black ; ocelli reddish-yellow ; eyes large, hairy ; flagellum brown-black ; tibia? and 

 tarsi yellowish-white. The head and the thorax are only feebly shagreened, the 

 lateral mesothoracic lobes being almost smooth ; the wings are hyaline, the veins as 

 in H. howardi except paler in color. The abdomeii is ovate, pointed at apex, on 



