New chalcidoid from Paraguay. 395 



Described from a Single male specimen, minutien moimted, 

 labelled "Asuncion, Paraguay, C. S. Miguel, 7./5. 1905, J. D. Anisits". 



Type. Katalog No. 31928, Zool. Museum Berlin, 1 S, minutien, 

 -\- 1 slide (appendages). 



Family Encyrtidae. 

 Subfamily Eupelminae. 



Tribe Eupelmini. 

 JParagiiaya n. g. 



Normal Position. 



Female. Head viewed laterally hemispherical, from cephalic 

 aspect rounded triangulär, tlie antennae inserted sliglitly below tlie 

 middle of tlie face but slightly above the ventral ends of the eyes, 

 their bulbs someAvhat nearer to the respective eye margins than to 

 eacli otlier, tlie eyes converging slightly above, the Vertex sub- 

 quadrate, inclined, the ocelli in a small triangle in its center, the 

 lateral ocelli their own diameters from the respective eye margins; 

 head slightly wider than the thorax; eyes practically bare. Para- 

 psidal furrows complete, not distinct. Scutellum abruptly inclined 

 ventrad, its plane nearly vertical. Metathorax exceedingly short, 

 concealed by the upward inclination of the abdomen, The latter 

 sessile, inclined upward at an angle of 50° to SO*' or even more, 

 barely longer than the thorax, depressed above, flat ventrad but 

 somewhat convexed near base, its segments unequal; ovipositor not 

 exserted; abdomen broadly ovate. 



Antennae somewhat compressed, thirteen-jointed, without a ring- 

 joint, scape, pedicel, 8 funicle joints and 3 club joints, subcapitate, 

 the funicle cylindrical, enlarging gradually distad, the club thicker 

 and conic-ovate; proximal funicle Joint subquadrate, shorter than 

 the pedicel and the following Joint, the scape long and slightly 

 bowed; pubescence short and close. Posterior tibiae with two spurs, 

 one thrice the size of the other ; anterior tibiae with a Single curved 

 spur, long, delicately forked at its tip. Cephalic femora swollen, 

 unarmed beneath. Proximal tarsal Joint of intermediate legs armed 

 beneath with black teeth with hairs distad, the teeth and hairs 



