ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHALCID FLIES 473 



Kapala atrata (Walker). 



Thoracantha a^rato Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc, London (3), I., 1862, p. 383, d^. — Dalla 



Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 365. 



Brazil. 



Kapala cynipsea (Walker). 



Thoracantha cynipsea Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1869, p. 379, 96^. — 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 365. 



Brazil : Santarem, Villa Nova. 



Kapala dicerodera (Spiuola). 



Eucharis dicerodera Spinola, Mem. accad. sc. Torino (2), XIIL, 1851, p. 43, c?. — 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 360. 



Brazil : Para. 



Kapala reflexa (Walker). 



Thoracantha reflexa Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1862, p. 382, 9. — Dalla 



Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 366. 



Brazil : Santarem (Mr. Bates). 



Kapala romandii (Guerin). 

 Thoracantha romandii Guer. Iconogr. regn. anim., VIII., Ins., 1845, p. 415. — Dalla 

 Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 366. 

 Colombia. 



Kapala striatissima (Walker). 



Thoracantha striatissima Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), I., 1862, p. 380, 9". — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 366. 

 Brazil : Santarem (Mr. Bates). 



Kapala splendens sp. nov. 

 (Plate XXXY., Fig. 4.) 



Female. — Length 8-8.5 mm. Very robust, the head and thorax brilliant me- 

 tallic green, the abdomen blue or blue green, with seneous reflections, usually brassy 

 above, the antennae and the legs except the coxse, yellowish, the wings subfuscous, 

 the veins brown. The face is longitudinally striate, the strise becoming transverse 

 below the insertion of the antennae, the thorax coarsely transversely striate, the 

 scutellum and the scutellar processes longitudinally striate. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April and November. Four specimens. 



This is the largest and most brilliant of any Eucharid 3'et discovered. 



Genus LASIOKAPALA Ashmead. 



Allied to Kapala Cameron, but easily distinguished by being hairy or pubescent, 

 and by the smoothness of the head. The lateral lobes of the mesonotum and the 



