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antennae, and by having only two dorsal grooved lines on the scutellum. In Sym- 

 piesis the antennae are ten-jointed, but it is metallic and the scutellum is without 

 dorsal grooved lines. 



Alophus brasiliensis, sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 2.8-3 mm. Honey yellow, the eyes brown, the flagellum 

 and the apex of the abdomen above, black, the legs yellowish, the tarsi whitish, the 

 apical half or more of hind tibiae sometimes fuscous. Wings hyaline, with a fuscous 

 cloud beneath the stigmal vein. 



The abdomen is long, conical, depressed above, convex beneath, usually consider- 

 ably longer than the head and thorax united, black or blackish at apex above. 



Male. — Length 2 mm. Head, except the clypeus, the lower part of the cheeks 

 and the mouth parts, black, the thorax honey yellow, with the disk of the scu- 

 tellum, the mesopleura and the metathorax black ; flagellum light brown ; scape and 

 the legs pale yellowish. The abdomen is oblong, briefly petiolate, depressed, about 

 the length of the thorax, the basal part of the dorsum yellowish. 



Brazil : Chapada, in April ; Rio de Janeiro, in September. 



Tribe III. Elachertini. 



Genus ELACHEETUS Spinola. 



Elacherttjs catta ("Walker). 



Eulopkus catta Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II., 1839, p. 71, 9. 

 Elachestus catta Walker, List Chalc. Brit. Museum, I., 1846, p. 69. 

 Elachistus catta Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 77. 

 Brazil : Bahia. 



Elachertus gyes (Walker). 



Eulophus gyes Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II., 1839, p. 89, c^. 

 Elachestus gyes Walker, List Chalc. Brit. Museum, I,, 1846, p. 69. 

 Elachistus gyes Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 78. 

 Chile : Isle of Chiloe. 



Subfamily V. Eulofhin.is. 

 Tribe I. Eulophini. 



Genus SYMPIESIS Forster. 

 Genus EULOPHUS Geoffrey. 

 Eulophus? laonome Walker. 

 Eulophus laonome Walker, Monogr. Chalc, II., 1839, p. 90, 9. — Spinola, Gay : 

 Hist, de Chile, ZooL, VI., 1851, p. 431, 9.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 

 1898, p. 62. 

 Chile : Isle of Chiloe. 



