MoreNew Genera and Species of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera From Paraguay. 53 



1. Halticopteroides pax new species. *' 

 Female: Length, 3,25 mm. 



Black, the wings hyaline, the venation pale brown, the coxae 

 concolorous, the legs yellow brown with the tarsi paler. Head and 

 thorax with scattered distinct white hairs giving the effect against 

 the black background somewhat as in Catolaccus Thomson. Tegulae 

 yellow brown, also the antennae except pedicel and ring-joints 

 which are dark; third ring-joint largest, the first funicle joint over 

 twice the length of the pedicel, widening distad, longest, the distal one 

 somewhat wider than long, subequal to the large first club joint, the 

 fourth joint of the club minute and terminating in aminute nipple. 



(From three specimens, similarly magnified.) 



Male: Not known. 



Described from three females on minutien pins labelled „San 

 Bernardino, 14. III. and 5. VI. K. Fiebrig." Also „6043". 

 Habit at: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 



Types: Zool. Mus., the above specimens with a slide bearing 

 the head, posterior legs and antennae. 



Dedicated to the cause of iinternatonal peace. 



Miscogasterini. 



Toxeumella new genus. 



Female: Like Toxeuma Walker but the antennae 13-jointed, 

 with three ring-joints, the club 3-jointed, its distal joint not bearing 

 a nipple. Abdominal petiole short; antennae inserted slightly 

 below the middle of the face, the clypeus at cephalic margin slightly 

 concaved. Metanotum tricarinate. Head very wide, wider than 

 the thorax, the abdomen short, ovate, depressed, convexed beneath, 

 the second segment a third of the surface, the ovipositor not exserted. 

 Mandibles strong, 3-and 4-dentate. Postmarginal vein longer than 

 the stigmal. Cephalic ocellus not within the scrobicular cavity, 

 the lateral ones a great distance from the eyes. Marginal vein of 

 usual length. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Toxeumella albipes new species. 



Female: Length, 2,50 mm. 



Bright metallic green blue, the abdomen purplish, ventrad 

 and at base and tip yellowish brown, the legs wholly white (inclu- 

 ding the coxae), the scape, pedicel and first ring-joint also white, 

 the rest of the antennae dark, dusky brown. Wings hyaline. Head 

 and thorax densely punctate, the propodeum scaly, its median 

 carina crossed by a carina at about proximal third. Pedicel subequal 

 in length to the first funicle joint which is only slightly longer than 

 wide. The distal joint of the funicle wider than long. 



(From three specimens, same magnification.) 



Male: Unknown. 



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