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Lelaps ^neiceps, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 3.5-4 mm. Head seneous black, the thorax and the abdo- 

 men ferruginous, the middle lobe of the scutellum basally, a band across the middle 

 of the abdomen and the tip of the stylus, black ; face striate ; antennse pale yellow- 

 ish, with the last four or five joints of the funicle black ; the flagellum is long, fully 

 three times as long as the scape, the joints long, the last joint of the funicle only a 

 little longer than thick, but the shortest joint ; legs pale yellowish, the coxse and 

 tarsi whitish, the middle femora sometimes dusky or subfuscous basally. The front 

 wings are hyaline, with the apex fuscous ; there is also a faint fuscous streak across 

 from the origin of the marginal vein. The abdomen is conic-ovate, produced into 

 a rather long stylus at apex ; the stylus is compressed towards apex and about as 

 long as the large second segment, the second segment blackish or fuscous at apex. 



Brazil : Chapada and Santarem. 



Lelaps halidayi, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 10.5 mm. Head and thorax seneous black, with a faint 

 purplish tinge in certain lights ; face coarsely striate ; pronotum transversely striate, 

 the striae coarser on the collar ; mesonotum anteriorly delicately transversely striate, 

 the lobes posteriorly roughly punctured ; scutellum striate ; metanotum rugulose, 

 bifoveolate at base. The antennae are long, black, the scape metallic black but more 

 or less testaceous beneath ; the flagellum is about thrice as long as the scape, sub- 

 clavate, pubescent, the joints elongate. The legs are testaceous, the front and hind 

 coxse and trochanters, base of middle tibise and the tarsi basally are yellowish-white, 

 the front tibise at apex and the hind tibise at apical two thirds are fuscous. The 

 abdomen is rufous and terminates in a long stylus, the sheaths of the ovipositor 

 being black. The front wings are hyaline, with a large triangular fuscous spot on 

 the disk, a large oval fuscous spot at apex and a small fuscous spot at the origin of 

 the marginal vein. 



Brazil : Rio de Janeiro, in October. 



Dedicated to the memory of A. H. Haliday, Esq., the describer of the genus, 

 and who did so much to advance the knowledge of the parasitic Hymenoptera. 



Lelaps abdominalis, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XXXVI, Fig. 1.) 



Female. — Length 8.5 mm. Head and pronotum dark blue, the rest of the 

 thorax black or aeneous black ; abdomen red, with the extreme apex black ; scape 

 and pedicel of the antennae and the legs pale testaceous, the tips of the coxae, 

 sutures of trochanters, knees and tarsi basally, more or less whitish, the tips of the 



