ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHALCID FLIES 481 



Lelaps ^neiceps, sp. nov. 



Fcnidlc. — Length 3.5-4 mm. Head reiioous black, the thorax and the abdo- 

 men frrniginous, the middle lobe of the scutellum basally, a band across the middle 

 of the abdomen and the tip of the stylus, black ; face striate ; antennae pale yellow- 

 ish, with the last four or five joints of the funicle black ; the flagellum is long, fully 

 three times as long as the scape, the joints long, the last joint of the funicle only a 

 little longer than thick, but the shortest joint ; legs pale yellowish, the coxtc and 

 tarsi whitish, the middle femora sometimes dusky or subfuscous basally. The front 

 wings are hyaline, with the apex fuscous ; there is also a faint fuscous streak across 

 from the origin of the marginal vein. The abdomen is conic-ovate, produced into 

 a rather Jong stylus at apex ; the stylus is compressed towards apex and about as 

 long as the large second segment, the second segment blackish or fuscous at apex. 



Brazil : ( 'liapada and Santarem. 



Lelaps halidayi, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 10.5 mm. Head and thorax seneous l)lack, with a faint 

 purplish tinge in certain lights ; face coarsely striate ; pronotum transversely striate, 

 the striae coarser on the collar ; niesonotum anteriorly delicately transversely striate, 

 the lobes posteriorly roughly punctured ; scutellum striate ; metanotum rugulose, 

 bifoveolate at base. The antennae are long, black, the scape metallic black but more 

 or less testaceous beneath ; the tiagellum is about thrice as long as the scape, sub- 

 clavate, pubescent, the joints elongate. The legs are testaceous, the front and hind 

 coxae and trochanters, base of middle tibiae and the tarsi basally are yellowish-white, 

 the front tibiae at apex and the hind tibitc at apical two thirds are fuscous. The 

 abdomen is rufous and terminates in a long stylus, the sheaths of the ovipositor 

 being black. The front wings are hyaline, with a large triangular fuscous spot on 

 the disk, a large oval fuscous spot at apex and a small fuscous spot at the origin of 

 the marginal vein. 



Brazil : Rio do .Fanciro, in (Jctober. 



Dedicated to the memory of \. H. Haliday, Es(j., the describer of the genus, 

 and wluj did so much to advance tlie knowledge of tlie parasitic Hymenoptera. 



Lelaps abdominalis, sp. nov. 



(Plate XXXVI, Fi- 1.) 



F(in(ile. — Length S.5 mm. Head and i»ronotum dark blue, the rest of the 



thorax black or a>neous black ; abdomen red, with the extreme apex black ; scape 



and pedicel of the anteima! and the legs j)ale testaceous, the tips of the coxte, 



sutures of trochanters, knees and tarsi l.)asally, more or less whitish, the tips of the 



