518 m?:moii{s of the carnegie museum 



with a faint diseal spot beneath the apex of the stigmal vein, the veins pale yel- 

 lowish. The abdomen in outline is nearly round, depressed, the petiole long, 

 smooth and shining, the first and second body segments occupy half the whole sur- 

 face, the second the larger, the following short, about equal. 



Brazil : (Jhapada, in May. One specimen. Named in honor of Dr. L. O. 

 Howard. 



Geuus LEUCODESMIA Howard. 

 Leucodesmia flaviceps, sp. uov. 



Female. — Length 2.3 mm. Head yellow, the eyes brown, pubescent ; thorax 

 and abdomen black ; scape and the legs, except coxse and the front femora medially, 

 honey ^^ellow, the coxse black, the front femora medially brownish ; flagellum 

 brown black, subcompressed, the joints of the funicle loosely joined, the fir.st joint 

 the longest, about twice as long as wide, the last joint only a little longer than wide. 

 The head is smooth impunctate, except a slight shagreening on the frons above ; 

 the thorax is scaly punctate, the metanotum being smooth, with a median carina. 

 Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish. The abdomen is ovate, depressed, not longer 

 than the thorax. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April. One specimen. 



ELACHERTOMORPHA Ashmead, gen. nov. 



This genus resemljles EJachertus Spinola, and could be easily mistaken for it, 

 except that the hind tibite have two apical spurs. From Leucodesmia Howard, it is 

 separated by tlie antennie being ten-jointed and Ijy having the scutellum grooved. 



Elachertomorpha flaviceps, sp. nov. 



FeiiitiJe. — Length 1.5 mm. Head, except the eyes and two converging black 

 lines on the scrobes, honey yellow ; thorax and abdomen seneous black, the former 

 shagreened, with the scutellum rugulose and the metanotum carinate ; scape of an- 

 tennae and the legs, except as noted, honey yellow, the middle and hind coxse black, 

 the front and middle femora basally, more or less dusky, the hind femora medially 

 and the apex of the hind tibise brownish. Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish. The 

 abdomen is rounded, smooth and shining, shorter than the thorax, with a short 

 petiole. 



Brazil : Santarem. One specimen. 



SYMPIESOMf)RPHA Ashmead, gen. nov. 



This genus has the general habitus of Sj/mpiesis Forster, with which I at first con- 

 fused it, but one may easily distinguish it by the two spurred hind tibite and by the 



