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taceous, the hind femora medially and the liind tai'si fuscous. Wings banded as in 

 II. bifasciata. 



Brazil: Santarem. One sjiecimen. 



EULOPHOPTERYX Ashmead, gen. nov. 



This genus comes nearest to Lo'phoamms Haliday, agreeing with it in all charac- 

 ters except the antennse. The antennse are ten-jointed, as in Lophocomu.% but the 

 joints of thefunicle are longer than thick, cylindrical, loosely joined, not pedicellate 

 nor compressed, Avith the club black or brown black, not white. In Lophocomus the 

 funicle joints are distinctly although briefly pedicellate, compressed, two or three 

 wider than long, while the club is white or yellowish-white. 



EULOPHOPTERYX CHAPADiE, Sp. UOV. 



(Plate XXXVIII., Fig. 6.) 



Female. — Length 1.5 mm ; roijust, feneous black, iinpunctate, except the pro- 

 notum, which is distinctly punctured ; the scape, the pedicel and the legs, except as 

 hereafter noted, are honey yellow ; flagellum brown black, the front and middle 

 femora and the base of their tarsi are metallic brown. The front wings are hyaline, 

 with a subfuscous cloud on the disk, the veins yellowish. The abdomen is Ijroadly 

 oval, petiolate, not longer than the thorax, above depressed, beneath subconvex. 



Brazil : Chapada, in August. One specimen. 



Genus LOPHOCOMUS Haliday. 

 Lophocomus anaitis (Walker). 

 Cirrospiliis anaitis Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II.,. 1839, p. 91, 9. 

 Lophocomus anaitis Haliday, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, III., 1843, p. 297. — Spinola, 

 Gay : Hist, de Chile, Zool., VI., 1851, p. 432, 0._i)alla Torre, Cat. Hym., 

 v., 1898, p. 70. 

 Bellerus anaitis Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XL, 1843, p. 32, d". — Spinola 

 Gay : Hist, de Chile, Zool., VI., 1851, p. 429, c^.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., 

 v., 1898, p. 26. 

 Chile : Conception ; Isle of Chiloe.- 



Lophocomus cyaneus, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 1.6 mm. Dark blue, with teneous reflections, the middle lobe 

 of the mesonotum and the inner margins of the lateral lo])es, aeneous ; antennse, except 

 the club, which is yellowish-white, l^lack : legs honey yellow, with the hind tibite 



