MoreNew Genera and Species of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera Frorn Paraguay. 65 



Male: Not known. 



From one female on a minutien mount, labelled ,,19. V.". 

 Habitat: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 

 Type: Zool. Mus., Berlin, the above specimen. 

 Respectfully dedicated to William Harris Ashmead for his 

 contributions to Hymenopterology. 



5. Spilochalcis saintpierrei new species. 

 Female: Length, 3,85 mm. 



Dark red, the face and cheeks, the scape, the pronotum, the 

 cephalic and intermediate legs (except the femora proximad, there 

 brownish), the tegulae and the lateral margins of the scutum, pale 

 lemonyellow, median line of scutum and scut eil um with ablackstripe, 

 the cephalic portions of each parapside also black; wings hyaline; 

 flagellum pinkish, darkening distad; pleurum of mesothorax black; 

 also a line across base of propodeum; posterior legs dark reddish, 

 a spot just before knees and a long band just below them, around 

 the tibiae, lemon yellow; abdomen darker distad, with obscure 

 yellowish above near base, the petiole nearly black, nearly thrice, 

 longer than wide. Antennae stout, the flagellum very fuzzy. 



(From one specimen, similarly magnified.) 



Male: Not known. 



From one female, minutien mounted, labelled „19. V.". 

 Habitat: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 



Type: Zool. Mus., Berlin, the above specimen and a slide 

 with an antenna. 



6. Spilochalcis asantaremensis new species. 

 Female: Length, 2,10 mm. 



Agreeing with santaremensis Ashmead but the head all honey 

 yellow (pinkish below antennae and in the scrobes), the occiput 

 black; Vertex with three small brownish spots, one upon the ce- 

 phalic ocellus, the other two each in front of a lateral one; face 

 of pronotum black; scutum and scutellum marked as in the male 

 of santaremensis but the scutellum may be described as yellow 

 with a broad median stripe; front and middle legs yellow; the hind 

 femora have the apical third yellow except at extreme apex while 

 the hind tibiae are mostly yellow, with a broad blackish middle 

 band; the petiole is nearly thrice longer than thick; otherwise 

 as in female santaremensis. The yellow stripes in dorsal aspect 

 of mesonotum forms an X-shaped marking. Antennae yellow, 

 somewhat dusky distad. 



(From one specimen, similarly magnified.) 



Male: Unknown. 



From one female, minutien mounted, labelled ,,19. V.". 



Habitat: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 



Type: Zool. Mus., Berlin, the above specimen. 



7. Spilochalcis flaviscutellum new species. 

 Female: Length, 3 mm. 



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