More New Genera and Species of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera From Paraguay. 61 



Callimominae. 



It is the mesepimeron in this subfamily and the Idarninae 

 which is excised beyond the middle; the episternum of the meso- 

 thorax is large and curved, dilated dorsad. 



Genus Syntomaspis Foerster. 



1. Syntomaspis Paraguay ensis new species. 



Female: Length, 2,1 mm, excluding the ovipositor which 

 is slightly longer than the body. 



Agreeing with aprilis Ashmead but the femora all concolorous, 

 the posterior tibiae darkening toward tip; scutellum, face and 

 metathorax green; funicle and club black; umbilicately punctate, 

 the scutellum caudad of the cross furrow much smoother, merely 

 scaly, the axillae with still finer sculpture. Valves of the ovi- 

 positor black. Scape concolorous with the tibiae, the pedicel 

 darker, fuscous. Venation very pale yellowisb. Posterior tibiae 

 with two spurs. Antennae 13-jointed, the club 3-jointed. 



(From one specimen, similarly magnified.) 



Male: Not known. 



From one female, minutien mounted, labelled ,,5. VI/'. 

 Habitat: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 



Type: Zöol. Mus., Berlin, the above specimen with a slide 

 bearing a cephalic and a posterior leg and an antenna. 



Family Eucharidae. 



Liratella new genus. 



Female: Like Lirata Cameron but the third joint, though 

 nearly twice longer than the fourth is only a fourth the length of 

 the funicle; noring-joint;scutellar proscesses longitudinally carinate 

 but the scutellum smooth; mesonotum hump-backed; distaj funicle 

 joints wider than long, the club single. Thorax with a median groove. 



Male: The same but the abdomen smaller, compressed, the 

 moderate petiole distinctly longer; the antennae 11-jointed, each 

 funicle joint bearing from the same side a long branch, the distal 

 joint two of them from its apex; scape short, pedicel wider than 

 long, the short funicle joints transverse, the first and last longest. 

 Ten antennal branches. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Liratella nigra new species. 



Female: Length, 4,30 mm. 



Jet black, the wings hyaline, the venation colorless, the legs 

 pale lemon yellow, except the concolorous coxae. Tegulae brown, 

 the antennae concolorous with the legs; scutum transeversely 

 striate, the axillae, parapsides and scutellum smooth, also the ab- 

 domen and face; occipial margin of Vertex acute. Propodeum 

 dorsally smooth, with a median sulcus and delicate but distinct 

 lateral carinae. Last four funicle joints wider than long. 



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