398 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



3Iale. — Length 1.2 to 1.5 mm. Agrees well with the 9 in color and sculpture, 

 except that the scape of the antennae alone is yellow, the pedicel being seneous 

 black. The abdomen is small, oval. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April ; Corumba, in May. Two female and two male speci- 

 mens. 



Syntomaspis plavicollis, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 2.6 mm. ; ovipositor longer than the body. Bluish-green, the 

 mesonotum posteriorly and the scutellum violaceous, the scape of antennae, the pro- 

 thorax, the legs, including coxae, the tegulae, venation of front wings, metapleura 

 and the venter yellow or yellowish ; the flagellum is brown-black ; eyes very large, 

 oval, brown. The head and the thorax are delicately shagreened, the scutellum 

 with some sparse punctures beyond the apical cross-furrow. Wings hyaline, the 

 veins pale yellowish. 



Brazil : Chapada, in September. One female specimen. 



Genus TORYMUS Dalman. 

 ToRYMUS CUMELIS (Walker). 



Callimome cumelis Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., X., 1842, p. 114, 9. — Spinola, 



Gay: Hist. lis. Cuba, ZooL, VI., 1851, p. 464. 

 Torymus cumelis Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 308. 

 Chile : Valparaiso (Walker). 



ToRYMXJS NONACRis (Walker). 



Callimome nonacris Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., X., 1842, p. 113, 9. — Spinola, 



Gay: Hist. fis. Chile, ZooL, VI., 1851, p. 463, 9. 

 Torymus nonacris Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 311. 



Chile : Valparaiso, Walker ; Brazil : Corumba, in April. One female specimen. 



Torymus chapad^e, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 2 mm. ; ovipositor a little longer than the body. Head and 

 thorax above greenish-blue, the pleura, metathorax, coxae, femora and abdomen 

 blue, the scape, tibiae and tarsi yellowish, the flagellum brown-black, the ocelli pale, 

 the eyes brown. The head, thorax and scutellum are shagreened. Wings hyaline, 

 the tegulae and veins pale yellowish. The abdomen is very short, higher than long, 

 but this may be due to an accident. 



Brazil : Chapada, highlands, in April. One female specimen. 



Torymus smithi, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length 3 mm. ; ovipositor longer than the body. Blue, the head 

 and thorax with a thimble-like punctuation, the tip of the scutellum smooth and 



