492 ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHALCID FLIES 



Phlebopenes splendidus Perty. 

 Phlebopenes splendichis Perty, Delectus, anim. Artie. Bvasil., 1833, p. 132; T. 2G, f. 

 11.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 279. 

 Brazil. 



Phlebopenes vieidis (Westwood). 

 Prionopelma viridis Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 111., 1835, p. 51. — West- 

 wood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 144. 

 Phlehoj>enes viridis Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Y., 1898, p. 279. 

 Brazil. 



Phlebopenes abdominalis, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length to tip of abdomen 8.5-9 mm.; ovipositor about 25 or 26 

 mm. long. Head and thorax blue, with faint greenish tingings in certain lights ; 

 antennae black, the scape subcompressed, seneous black ; legs, except the coxse, and 

 abdomen pale ferruginous, the long ovipositor being black. Wings hyaline, the 

 veins brownish. 



Brazil : Rio de Janeiro, in November. One specimen. 



Phlebopenes peetyi, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XXXVII., Fig. 3.) 



Female. — Length to tip of abdomen about 9 mm.; ovipositor about 27 mm. 

 long. Head and thorax blue, the ridges of the mesonotum tinged with a?neous ; 

 antennae black ; the presternum, the legs, including all coxa?, and the abdomen 

 pale ferruginous, the abdomen of a darker red. 



Brazil : Santarem. One specimen. 



This species resembles P. abdominalis, but is easily separated by the color of the 

 coxae. 



ENCYRTASPIS Ashmeatl, gen. nov. 



This genus is at once recognized by the tuft of long black hairs on the scutellum 

 as in the genus Encyrtus Latreille {=C'omys Forster), by the shape of the head, the 

 scrobes being very short, hardly impressed, and by the alxlomen, which has the 

 hypopygium prominent and ends in a long ovipositor. 



Encyrtaspis brasiliensis, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XXXVII., Fig. 4.) 

 Female. — Length about 4 mm.; ovipositor longer than the body, with a broad 

 white band before the apex. Blue with greenish reflections, the head in front 

 teneous, the abdomen aaneous black, with a testaceous band near the base, the scu- 

 tellum red with a tuft of long black hairs. The antennte, except the last two or 



