170 A. A. Girault: 
Scutellum with a bidentate plate; ocelli close together, 
less distant from each other than a lateral ocellus is from 
its respective eye margin; under parts of the body and the 
head more or less green ; colored otherwise as in paraguayensis: 
americanus Girault. 
Black with metallic colors, the vertex and parapsides 
aeneous, the sides of the thorax metallic bluish to purplish, 
the abdomen verging to metallic greenish; antennae black, 
the club tinged with brownish; cephalic tibiae nearly all 
yellowish; scutellum bilobed at apex. nigriviridis Girault, 
Family Miscogasteridae. 
Subfamily Lelapinae. 
Genus Lelaps Haliday.*) 
1. Lelaps paraguayensis new species. 
Female:— Length, 3 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the abdomen shining black; legs straw 
yellow, except the dusky or subfuscous femora and cephalie tibia 
at proximal half, and the coxae; antennae dusky black, the scape, 
pedicel, single ring-joint, the 3-jointed club contrasting, lemon 
yellow, the long first funicle joint the same but suffused some- 
what with dusky. Ocelli and eyes dark garnet. Ovipositor fuscous. 
Stylus concolorous with abdomen. Fore wings hyaline but with 
a small suberescentic smoky brown dash from the bend of the 
submarginal vein extending about half-way across the wing; a 
second conspicuous conical (apex of the cone pointing proximad) 
band across the wing at the stigmal vein, crossing the latter to 
the postmarginal vein at the costal margin; this band is divided 
longitudinally at its caudal two-thirds by a narrow curved white 
line and its base or distal margin is slightly concaved; it is followed 
by a white, rather narrow, slightly concaved white band which 
in turn is followed by a slightly broader but nearly similar smoky 
brown band; the wing from this band distad (or the apex) is 
hyaline. Venation smoky brown. 
Thorax roughened, half punctate, half rugose but the scutellum 
definitely longitudinally striate, the striae more distinet and 
regular distad. Face striate in different directions, cephalic half 
of pronotum transversely striate, the other half rugose or nearly 
longitudinally striate. Scutellum with a cross furrow before apex. 
Abdominal segments 5, 6 and 7 polygonally reticulated, some 
reticulation on segment 4 near base, but segments 2 and 3 smooth. 
Second abdominal segment long, over a third the length of the 
abdomen including the stylus, over twice the length of segments 3 
and 4 combined, segment 3 shortest, transverse, only about half 
*) The legal name of this genus is Stenopistha Strand 1910 (vide 
Societas Entomologica 25 p. 26). Strand. 
