CHARLES W. HOOKER, O/ 



rugose ; wings with one macula ; nervulus slightly postfurcal ; second 

 segment (of abdomen ?) as long as the first, reddish-yellow ; stemma- 

 ticum (vertex) of abdomen from the fifth segment on and the fourth 

 segment behind, at the sides, black ; pleurae spotted with yellow ; 

 head and scutellum yellow, stemmaticum (vertex) black ; wings hya- 

 line, veins black, stigma yellow. 

 " Length, 22 mm." 



I have not seen a specimen of this species, and can only 

 give a free translation of the original description. 



Distribution. — Minas Geraes, Brazil. Var. 9 : size only 

 15 mm., Blumenau, Brazil, 



Enicospilus parvifasciatus Cam. 

 Enicospilus parvifasciatus Cameron, Jour. Royal Agr. and Com- 



mer. Soc, British Guiana, I, p. 180. ..1911. 



Length, 18 mm. 



" Luteous, the head yellow, the thorax paler, more yellowish in tint, 

 the antennas more rufous, the apical abdominal segments darker 

 than the basal ; three large broad black marks on the mesonotum, a 

 black mark on the apex of the mesopleurae, commencing near the top 

 and reaching below nearer to the bottom, it becomes gradually widened 

 from the top to the bottom, with the apex and lower side straight ; 

 the legs paler in tint than the body ; wings hyaline, a small triangular 

 cloud, longer than it is wide at the apex, filling the base of the radial 

 cellule, the costa rufo testaceous, the stigma and nervures black ; the 

 recurrent nervure separated from the transverse cubital by four times 

 the length of the latter ; the basal abscissa of the radius is thickened 

 to the middle; the transverse median nervure interstitial. The base 

 of metanotum is smooth ; the upper part of the apical part is smooth, 

 except for a straight and two curved striae in the center ; the rest 

 strongly, closely transversely striated. There is only one horny point 

 in the forewings ; it is conical, longer than it is wide at the apex ; the 

 top narrowed, rounded end at the base, the apex transverse except for 

 a small projection on the lower edge. Female." 



Distribution. — British Guiana, 



Location of specimens. — Georgetown Museum. British 



Guiana. 



Enicospilus dispilus (Szep.). 



Henicospilus (3'zj^«7«.y Szepligeti, Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Nat. Hung., 



IV, Part I, p. 145, 9 1906. 



" Head narrow and sloping behind the eyes. Antennae as long or 

 longer than the body. Mesonotum somewhat shining. Pro- and meso- 

 pleurse finely and indistinctly punctured, shining ; metapleurae leath- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVIII. 



