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Brazil : Santarem ; Maruru ; Para. Three specimens. The specimen from 

 Maruru has the basal half of the hind femora black ; while that from Para has a 

 spot at base and the apex of the stylus black. 



EUSTYPIUEA SMITHII, sp. nOV. 



Female. — Length 12 mm. Pale honey-yellow ; the pedicel and the flagellum are 

 brown-black, paler beneath at apex ; two triangular black spots on the middle 

 mesothoracic lobe anteriorly, and two faint streaks behind these ; the lateral lobes 

 have a black spot on the inner margins; the scutellum has a narrow transverse band 

 at base and its tip black ; while the hind femora have a black spot at apex beneath. 

 Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish. The abdomen has the segments two to seven 

 faintly brownish at apex. The hind femora are armed with one large long tooth at 

 base followed by about nine or ten small teeth, the small teeth tipped with black. 



Brazil : Santarem. One specimen. 



Genus SPILOCHALCIS Thomson. 

 Spiloch ALOIS ABDOMiNALis (Walker). 



Smiera abdominalis Walker, Journ. of Ent., I., 1861, p. 177, d^. 

 Smicra ambigua Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IV., 1872, p. 44, c^. 

 Smiera abdominalis Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IV., 1872, p. 57, cT- — Dalla Torre, 

 Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 372. 

 Mexico : Orizaba (Salle) ; South America : Brazil. 



gpiLOCHALCis AcciLA (Walker). 



Smiera accila Walker, the Entom., I., 1841, p. 218. — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 

 1898, p. 373. 

 Brazil (Mr. Shuckard's collection). 



SPILOCHALCIS ACUTA (Fabricius). 



Chalcis acuta Yahricius, Syst. Piez., 1804, p. 161. — Dalla Torre, Cat. H3^m., V., 1898, 

 p. 385. 

 Brazil. 



SPILOCHALCIS ADJUNCTA (Walker). 



Smiera adjuncta Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), II., 1864, p. 189, (^. 

 Smicra adjuncta Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 373. 

 Brazil (Mr. Bates). 



SPILOCHALCIS ADMIXTA (Walker). 



Smiera admixta Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), II., 1864, p. 189, $. 

 Smicra adjuncta Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 373. 

 Brazil (Mr. Bates). 



