462 • MEMOIES OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Chryseida supeeciliosa Spinola. 



Chryseida superciliosa Spinola, Mag. de Zool., X., 1840, p. 12. 9, T. 42. — Rev. Zoo]., 

 1840, p. 18.— VVestwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 140.— Dalla Torre, 

 Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 352. 

 British Guiana. 



Chryseida jEneiventris, sp. nov. 



(Plate XXXIII., Fig. 3.) 



Female. — Length 6 mm. Head and thorax blue, coarsely punctate, the disk of 

 the metathorax, the mesopleura, coxsb, and the punctures along the eyes and on the 

 face, metallic green ; flagellum black, the basal two thirds of the scape at least 

 beneath, yellow ; third joint of the flagellum fully three and. one half times as long 

 as thick, legs rufous, the coxse metallic greenish, the tarsi yellowish ; abdomen 

 Eeneous or bronzed, the last segment bluish. Wings hyaline, the veins yellowish. 



Brazil : Santarem ; C^hapada, in April. 



Genus BEPHRA.TA Cameron. 



Bephrata striatipes, pp. nov. 



(PlateXXXIIL, Fig. 4.) 



Female. — Length 6.5 mm. Black, coarsely punctate ; the face, except the 

 scrobes, the cheeks, the temples, a large oblong spot on each side of the pronotum, 

 the tegulse, and the legs, except black stripes on the front and middle femora above, 

 and the hind femora which are black, except at tips, are yellow. Wings hyaline, 

 with a fuscous cloud beneath the mai'ginal vein. 



The abdomen is much compressed, about as long as the head and thorax united ; 

 seen from the side it is nearly as wide as long, the eighth segment represented by an 

 aculeus ; the fourth and fifth segments have a band of faint punctures before the 

 middle, the sixth segment is punctured along the base, while the seventh segment 

 is punctured towards the apex. 



Brazil : Para, in June. Two specimens. 



AXIMOGASTRA Ashmead, gen. nov. 



This genus comes nearest to Bephrata Cameron, but is easily separated by the 

 totally different shape of the abdomen which is long-lanceolate and compressed, 

 much as in Axima Walker, by the first joint of the funicle, although long, being 

 shorter than the scape, and by the venation, which is nearly as in Isosoma Walker 



