ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OP THE CHALCID FLIES 40y 



ElPELMUS COMPRESSIVENTEIS, Sp. nov. 



Femalr. — Length 3 mm. ; ovipositor about one third the length of the abdomen 

 and broadly ringed with yellow. Head and thorax blue, with a faint greenish tinge 

 in certain lights, the mesopleura decidedly ceneous ; abdomen compressed, aeneous 

 black ; antennte, except the club, and the legs, except the coxa? basally, brownish- 

 yellow, the hind femora faintly dusky medially. 



Brazil: Corumba, in INIarch. One specimen. 



EuPELSirs APRiLis, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 2 mm. ; ovipositor short but distinct, the length of the Ijasal 

 joint of hind tarsi, testaceous. Head and thorax metallic green ; antennfe black, 

 the scape seneous black ; legs except the femora, the hind cox?e, a spot at base of 

 the front tibiae outwardly, straw-yellow. The wings are hyaline, the veins yellowish. 

 The abdomen is elongate, conicully pointed, longer than the head and thorax united 

 and tcneous black. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April. One specimen. 



EuPELMtTS CHAPADA, Sp. IIOV. 



Female. — Length 2.8 mm.; ovipositor projecting, not ringed with yellow, but 

 with the tip brownish. Head, thorax and abdomen metallic green, the mesopleura 

 with a purplish tinge ; antenna? except a narrow annulus at the apex of the pedicel, 

 wholly back ; legs, except the front and hind coxse, pale ferruginous or brownish- 

 yellow. The wings are hyaline, the veins yellowish. The abdomen is conically 

 pointed, longer than the head and the thorax united. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April. One specimen. 



EUPELMUS .SANTAKEMENSIS, sp. noV. 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm.; ovipositor about one third the length of the abdomen, 

 ringed with yellow. Head and thorax blue or bluish-green, the head in front and the 

 mesonotal ridges metaUic-green ; scape and ah annulus at the apex of the pedicel, 

 yellow ; legs, except the front and the hind coxa? and more or less of their femora 

 which are metallic blue or blue-green, pule ferruginous or brownish-yellow. 



Brazil : Santarem. 



EuPELMUS I'EKSIMILTS, sp. IIOV. 



Female. — liength 4 mm.; ovipositor prominent, broadly ringed with yellowish- 

 white. This species is allied to E. mntaremensi^ but it is slightly larger, the lateral 

 ridges of the mesonotum, the elevated basal part of the middle lobe and the scu- 

 tellum are more decidedly gold-green ; the disk of the mesopleura is greener ; the 

 antennse, except the clulj, are wholly yellow ; while the legs, excc])t the eoxte and a 



