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than the scape. The hind femora are armed with 7 moderate-sized teeth. The 

 head and thorax, except the pronotum laterally, the middle lobe of the me- 

 sonotum and the mesopleura beneath the insertion of the front wings, which 

 are smooth and shining, Avith only a few punctures, are closely punctate or sculp- 

 tured. 



Brazil : Chapada, Para, and Santarem. Five specimens. 



Genus PSEUDOCHALCIS Kirby. 



PSEXJDOCHALCIS DECLARATOR (Walker). 



Halticella declarator Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1862, p. 360, 9. 



Pseudochalcis declarator Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, XVII. , p. 61. — Dalla 



Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 394. 



Brazil: Ega. 



Pseudochalcis conica sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 4.5-5 mm. Black, coarsely punctate, the tegulse, tips of 

 femora, the front tibise, except a black spot behind, middle and hind tibiae, except a 

 broad black annulus at the middle, and all tarsi sulphur yellow, the abdomen con- 

 ically pointed, longer than the head and thorax united. 



Brazil : Santarem, in March and May. Four specimens. 



Pseudochalcis flavopicta, sp. nov. 



3Iale. — Ijcngth 5.5 mm. Black, coarsely punctate, the front orbits, face below 

 insertion of the antennse, scape, two large spots on dorsum of pronotum, a line on 

 each side of the middle mesothoracic lobe, a spot on the outer front angle of the 

 lateral lobes, a line on each side of the scutellum, the tegulse, a line on tlie meso- 

 pleura, a large spot on the metapleura, a spot at apex of metanotum, a large spot on 

 each side of second segment of abdomen, and the legs, except as noted, yellow, the 

 hind coxfe with a large spot above at base, and a large spot on the disk of the hind 

 femora, black. 



Brazil : Corumba and Santarem. Three specimens. 



Genus STYPIURA Kirby. 

 Stypiura conigastra (Perty). 



Chalcis conigastra Perty, Delect, anim. artic, 1834, p. 134 ; PI. XXVI., f 16. — 



Spinola, Mem. accad. sc. Torino (2), XIII. , 1851, p. 44. 

 Conura conigastra Blanchard, Hist. nat. Ins., III., 1840, p. 256. 

 Halticella erythrotelusMV alker, Journ. Entom., I., 1861, p. 184. 

 Phasgonophora conigastra Sichel, Ann. Soc. ent. France (4), V., 1865, p. 363. 



