ashmead: classification of the chalcid flies 507 



fuscous, the hind coxte and trochanters somewhat whitish ; abdomen beneath rufo- 

 piceous. Wings subh^'aHne with a large subfuscous discoidal cloud. 

 Brazil : Santarem. One specimen. 



Genu.s HORISMENUS Walker. 

 IIORISMENUS CLEODORA Walker. 



Hurisraoms cloHlora Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XI., 1843, p. 31, 9. 



Entedon cleodora Walker, List Chalc. Brit. Museum, f., 1846, p. 66. — Dalla Torre, 



Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 35. 



Peru : Lima. 



TABLE OF NEW SPECIES. 



1. Species mostly aeneous black or blue 2 



Species mostly metallic green or at least above. 



Prothorax at the sides, the mesopleura and the coxie blue, rest of legs and the scape pale yel- 

 lowish ; metanotum long with two opaque sulci H. bisulcus. 



2. Species mostly blue 3 



Species mostly aeneous black. 



Metanotum brassy ; scape, pronotum anteriorly, pleur<E and legs, except as uotetl, dark blue ; tips 

 of femora, the tibiaj and tarsi, except last joint, yellowish-white H. hrasiliensis. 



Metanotum not brassy ; head in front ; the axillae and a spot on upper margin of the mesopleura 

 metallic greenish ; scape and legs, except coxae, honey yellow, a spot on knees, tips of tibiae 

 and the tarsi yellowish-white ; abdomen conically pointed, a little longer than the head and 

 thorax united H. corumbw. 



3. Scape aud legs, except coxae and parts hereafter noted, honey yellow, tlie femora dusky basally, the 



knees, tips of tibiae and the tarsi, whitish ; scutellum with an ajueous tinge IT. persimilis. 



Scape and legs, except coxae, honey yellow, the tai-si whitish ; frons, the dorsum of pronotum and the 



disk of the mesonotum, reneous H. xneicollis. 



HOEISMENUS BISULCUS, Sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 2.4 mm.; above metalhc greenish, tlie prothorax at the 

 sides, the mesopleura and the coxae blue, the abdomen black ; the scape of the 

 antennte, except at apex, and the legs, except coxjb, are pale yellowish or yellow- 

 ish-white. The head and the thorax, except the metanotum, are mostly scaly 

 punctate or punctate, the metanotum ])cing smooth and shining, with two 

 broad longitudinal sulci, extending from base to apex. Wings h^^aline, the veins 

 pale yellowish. The abdomen is shortei- than tlie thorax, short ovate, the ter- 

 minal segments retracted within the large second segment which occupies most of 

 the whole surface; the petiole is opaque, furrowed and a little longer tliaii thick. 



Brazil: Chapada, in April. 



IIORISMENUS BKASILIENSIS, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 1.6 mm.; icneous black, witli a bluish tinge on the i)arapsidis 

 and at the sides of tlie thorax, the metatliorax being brassy ; the legs, except the 



