ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHALCID FLIES 505 



share-shaped ; by the very long, ten-jointed antennse, with two ring-joints, the funi- 

 cle joints being giobosely swollen towards base, with whorls of long hairs somewhat 

 as in the males in the genera Hoplocrepis and Lophocomus ; and by the wings, which 

 are fringed, the marginal vein being very long, the stigmal vein short, while the 

 post-marginal vein is long. The male is unknown. 



UrOENTEDON VERTICELLATUS, Sp. nOV. 



(Plate XXXVIII., Fig. 4.) 



Female. — Length 3 mm. ; ovipositor as long as the abdomen. Highly polished, 

 impunctate, the head, the prothorax beneath and the legs, honey yellow, the face 

 with a greenish metallic luster ; antennae black, except the long slender scape which 

 is yellowish at its basal half; thorax bottle blue, the axillae faintly testaceous 

 towards the sutures anteriorly at the sides, the scutellum and the mesopleura 

 aeneous black ; abdomen black, the tip seneous, the extreme base bluish. Wings 

 hyaline, fringed, the veins yellowish. 



Brazil : Chapada, in September. One specimen. 



Genus HOPLOCREPIS Ashmead. 



Hoplocrepis bifasciata, sp. iiov. 



(Plate XXXVIII., Fig. 5.) 



3Iale. — Length 1.7 mm. ^neous black, the occiput, the metathorax, the petiole 

 of abdomen and the legs mostly testaceous, the trochanters, the extreme base of the 

 femora and the tarsi pale yellowish, the femora and tibiae brown, the hind tibiae, 

 except at base and tips, black ; the lateral lobes of the mesonotum are brownish ; 

 while the body of the abdomen is small, spatulate, black. 



The ten-jointed antennae are black with the scape and pedicel yellowish ; the 

 joints of the funicle are long, nodose-pedicillate, with whorls of long hairs, the 

 first, second and third joints with a short branch above. Wings hyaline, the front 

 wings with two transverse fuscous bands, the first band very narrow, situated a little 

 before the basal third, the other broad, extending aci'oss the wing from the apical 

 middle of the marginal vein and enclosing the stigmal vein. 



Brazil : Chapada. One specimen. 



Differs from all other males in this genus by having short branches on funicle 



joints one, two and three. 



Hoplocrepis brasiliensis, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length L6 mm. Brownish-yellow with the collar anteriorly, the 



mesopleura, the metanotum, the petiole and the body of abdomen above, fuscous or 



brownish-black. The antennae are black with the scape yellowish ; legs flavo-tes- 



