132 HYMENOPTEKA. 



tured, except the hollow in the centre on the outside, which is very faintly striated. 

 On the underside the posterior femora are closely beset with teeth all over. The 

 smoky fascia on the wings is placed upon the cubitus, where it is narrow, but becomes 

 much broader and more diffused towards the sides. The costa is covered with long, 

 black hairs. 



LELAPS. 



Lelaps, Haliday, Trans. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 292; Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1862, p. 389. 



A species of this genus is known from the Galapagos Islands, another from St. 

 Vincent Isle [West Indies], and some have been described from Brazil. 



l. Lelaps albipes. (Tab. VI. fig. 8, ? .) 



€uprea ; abdomine nigro ; antennis nigris, albo cinctis ; pedibus albidis, femorum medio fusco ; terebra rufa, 



apice nigro ; alis hyalinis, fusco maculatis. 

 Long, fere 7 nrillim. (cum terebra). 



Hal. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



Antennae as long as the thorax and abdomen, shortly and densely pilose, gradually 

 thickened towards the apex ; second joint about one half of the length of the fourth, 

 third nearly as long as the fourth and fifth together, fourth a little longer than the fifth, 

 which is longer than the sixth, eighth shorter than the seventh and longer than ninth ; 

 tenth a very little longer than following, last longer than eleventh ; scape beneath, the 

 three apical joints, the apex of the third, and the base of the fourth white. Head 

 finely striated ; front and face carinated ; clypeus smooth, shining, not striated ; on 

 the top are some (seven or eight) long, stiff, black hairs. Ocelli in a curve. Eyes 

 large, oval. Prothorax finely striated, the sides rounded ; pleurae smooth, shining, 

 striated behind above. Mesonotum in front of the wings transversely and finely rugose 

 striate, behind them longitudinally striated. Scutellum flat ; behind it is a suture 

 which goes right across ; a little behind this is another transverse carina ; the part 

 immediately in front of this is smooth and shining ; before this smooth part the surface 

 is coarsely reticulated, as is also the rest of the metathorax. Behind the second trans- 

 verse carina, and in the centre, there is a raised semioval carina, and the field which it 

 encloses has a carina in the middle. The pleurae are smooth and shining immediately 

 below the wings and over the middle legs ; the rest, and the sternum, finely and closely 

 punctured. The petiole is short, ringed in the centre, the ring reticulated, very finely 

 striated at the apex, and curved beneath. The pronotum has a few long, stiff hairs, and 

 there are three rows (of three or four each) of hairs on the mesonotum. Abdomen smootn, 

 shining ; third segment with two or three long, stiff hairs ; apex beneath pilose ; second 

 segment above scarcely so long as the succeeding together. Terebra longer than the 

 abdomen, pilose. Posterior coxae finely and transversely striated behind ; their extreme 

 bases black ; middle coxae, the apices excepted, black. The costa at base bears long, 



