492 ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHALCID FLIES 



Phlebopenes splendidus Perty. 

 Phlebopenes splendidus Perty, Delectus, anim. Artie. Brasil., 1833, p. 132; T. 26, f. 

 11.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 279. 

 Brazil. 



Phlebopenes viridis (Westwood). 

 Prionopelma viridis Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, III., 1835, p. 51. — West- 

 wood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 144. 

 Phlebopenes viridis Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 279. 

 Brazil. 



Phlebopenes abdominalis, sp. nov. 

 Female. — Length to tip of abdomen 8.5-9 mm.; ovipositor about 25 or 26 

 mm. long. Head and thorax blue, with faint greenish tingings in certain lights ; 

 antennae black, the scape subcompressed, seneous black ; legs, except the coxse, and 

 abdomen pale ferruginous, the long ovipositor being black. Wings hyaline, the 

 veins brownish. 



Brazil : Rio de Janeiro, in November. One specimen. 



Phlebopenes pertyi, sp. uov. 

 (Plate XXXVII., Fig. 3.) 



Female. — Length to tip of abdomen about 9 mm.; ovipositor about 27 mm. 

 long. Head and thorax blue, the ridges of the mesonotum tinged with seneous ; 

 antennse black ; the prosternum, the legs, including all coxse, and the abdomen 

 pale ferruginous, the abdomen of a darker red. ' 



Brazil : Santarem. One specimen. 



This species resembles P. abdominalis, but is easily separated by the color of the 

 coxse. 



ENCYRTASPIS Ashmead, gen. nov. 



This genus is at once recognized by the tuft of long black hairs on the scutellum 

 as in the genus Encyrtus Latreille (= Comys Forster), by the shape of the head, the 

 scrobes being very short, hardly impressed, and by the abdomen, which has the 

 hypopygium prominent and ends in a long ovipositor. 



Encyrtaspis brasiliensis, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XXX VIL, Fig. 4.) 



Female. — Length about 4 mm.; ovipositor longer than the body, with a broad 

 white band before the apex. Blue with greenish reflections, the head in front 

 seneous, the abdomen teneous black, with a testaceous band near the base, the scu- 

 tellum red with a tuft of long black hairs. The antennse, except the last two or 



