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The thorax is brownish-yellow marked with black as follows : The middle meso- 

 thoracic lobe has two oblong, nearly confluent, spots anteriorly, the lateral lobes 

 have a spot above, Avhile the scutellum has a transverse line across the base and a 

 central line ending on the two spines at the apex of the scutellum, black. The 

 abdominal petiole and the legs are yellow. 



Brazil : Santarem, in April. One specimen. 



Genus SCHIZASPIDEA Westwood. 



SCHIZASPIDEA MACULATA WestwOod. 



Schizaspidea f maculata Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 153, 9; PI. 28, f. 1. 

 Orasema maculata Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., XX., 1886, p. 29. — Dalla 

 Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 361. 

 Brazil. 



SCHIZASPIDEA PBETENDENS Walker. 



8chizaspidea pretendens Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1862, p. 385, cT. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 364. 

 Brazil : Chapada, in May. One specimen, badly damaged. 



Genus TETRAMELIA Kiiby. 

 Tetbamelia meridionalis Kirby. 

 Tetramelia meridionalis Kirby, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), IV., 1889, p. 144, 9. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 364. 



Brazil. 



Tetramelia plagiata (Walker). 



(Plate XXXV, Fig. 1.) 



Schizaspidia plagiata Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), L, 1862, p. 385, d^. — 

 Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 152; PI. 28, f 11. 



Tetramelia plagiata Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., XX., 1886, p. 31. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 364. 

 Brazil : Chapada, in November. One male specimen. 



Genus THORACANTHA Latreille. 

 Thoracantha latreillei Guerin. 



Thoracantha latreillei Guer. Iconogr. Regn. an. Ins., VII., 1829-44, p. 415; PL 

 LXVIL, f 8.— Blanchard, Hist. nat. Ins., III., 1840, p. 257.— Walker, Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist., XII., 1843, p. 45, 9. — Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London 

 Zool., XX., 1886, p. 32.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., X., 1898, p. 365. 



Thoracantha coleopteroides (Waterhouse) Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, IL, 

 1839, p. 196. 



Galearia violacea BruUe, Hist. nat. Ins., Hym., IV., 1846, p. 572. 



