1915] Brues — Some New Parasitic Hymenoptera 11 



Xanthopria nitida sp. nov. 



9 . Length 1.5 ram. Ferruginous, the abdomen beyond the petiole pioeous, 

 the head infuscated above and the legs brownish-yellow. Head smooth and shin- 

 ing, with a few conspicuous hairs; ocelli as in the preceding species; front without 

 a median depression; antennae with the scape as long as the four following joints 

 together; pedicel as long as the second flagellar joint, thicker apically; first flagellar 

 joint slender, one-fourth longer than the pedicel; fourth and following joints, except 

 the last, more or less moniliform, the club very gradual, but rather distinctly 

 6-jointed; eyes oval, more narrowed below; face convex, slightly sculptured, but 

 shining. Mesonotum polished, smooth, without parapsidal furrows; fovea at 

 base of scutellum rounded, scutellum smooth, with a short, sharp carina which is 

 elevated behind so as to appear as a tooth when seen from the side; metanotum 

 with a sharp median tooth curved backwards; behind this with a median raised 

 line extending to the raised posterior edge; sides also with a broad, carlnate margin, 

 the two areas thus formed smooth; posterior angles sharply produced; pleurse 

 smooth and polished, except the metapleurse which are rugulose and clothed with 

 short sparse hairs. Abdominal petiole as broad as long, clothed with short, glisten- 

 ing hairs; second segment covering three-fourths of the abdomen; three following 

 segments very short, subequal. Anterior wings subhyaline, yellowish apically; 

 vein one-third the wing length gradually thickened before the short, oblique stigmal 

 vein; margin with a short hair-fringe apically and behind. Legs as in the preced- 

 ing species. 



Two specimens from Independencia, Parahyba, Brazil, Mann 

 and Heath. 



This species although similar to the preceding, differs by its 

 shining head and thorax, spined scutellum and distinct median 

 carina on the metathorax. 



Hoplopria grandis sp. nov. 



9 . Length 7 mm. Black, the legs more or less piceous; wings brown, with 

 three hyaline spots along the anterior border and a hyaline streak on the disc. Head 

 smooth and polished above, the large ocelli on a distinctly raised area; no spine 

 between them; occiput prolonged into a narrow obtuse projection; front smooth 

 and polished, the ledge below the antennae very prominent, margined; face with a 

 grooved depression on each side which meets the one of the opposite side above to 

 form a large depressed area; below each groove extends laterally around the edge 

 of the clypeus. Eyes large, oval, bare; cheeks as wide as the eyes, smooth and 

 polished. Antennae 12-jointed; scape distinctly longer than the head-height, 

 arcuate, irregularly striated, bispinose at tip; pedicel half the length of the first 

 flagellar joint; second flagellar joint two-thirds as long as the first and nearly three 

 times as broad as long; third to fifth growing shorter and thicker; the fifth to 

 eleventh quadrate; seventh to ninth widest, but the club is not at all pronounced. 

 Head behind with a dense tuft of woolly hair below the level of the upper eye-margin. 

 Prothorax with a dense collar of wool like that on the head; mesonotum smooth. 



