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Heterandrium longipes Mayr, Verh. Zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, XXXV., 1885, pp. 234- 

 2.35, J'. — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 316, cf 9. 

 Brazil : St. Catharina (Dr. Fritz Miiller). 



Subfamily II. Torymin^e. 



Genus LOCHITES Forster. 

 LocHiTES ATJRiCEPS Ashmead. 



Lochites auriceps Ashmead, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., XX., 1894, p. 153, 9. 

 — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 284. 

 W. I. : St. Vincent, Grenada ; Brazil : Chapada, in April. Three specimens. 



Lachites sulcius (Walker). 



Callimome sulcius Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II., 1839, p. 64, 9. 

 Torymus sulcius Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 313. 

 Brazil : Bahia ; Chapada, in April. Three specimens. 



Genus SYNTOMASPIS Forster. 

 Syntomaspis cabura (Walker). 

 Callimome caburus Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II., 1864, p. 64, 9d^. 

 Torymus caburus Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 301. 

 Brazil : Bahia (Walker). 



Syntomaspis apeilis, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 2.5 mm. ; ovipositor nearly as long as the body. Blue, with a 

 very faint greenish tinge, the abdomen with a decided aeneous tinge. Head and 

 thorax shagreened, with a thimble-like punctuation ; ocelli pale ; eyes brown ; 

 scape yellowish, the pedicel seneous, the flagellum dark brown ; front and middle 

 femora above and the hind femora blue, the front and middle tibise, their tarsi and 

 the hind tarsi, yellowish, the hind tibise dark brownish. Wings hyaline, the tegulse 

 and veins yellowish. 



Brazil : Carumba, in April. Two female species. 



Syntomaspis holcaspoidea, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 2 mm. ; ovipositor longer than the abdomen. Robust, blue, 

 the head and the thorax with a thimble-like punctuation ; ocelli red, placed nearly 

 in a straight line ; eyes brown ; scape, pedicel, tips of front and middle femora, their 

 tibise and tarsi and the hind tarsi, yellowish, the front and middle femora, except 

 tips, and the hind tibise brownish-piceous, the hind femora blue ; flagellum brown- 

 black. Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish. 



