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Hyptia Trinidadensis, new species. 



£ . — Length, 3.5 mm. — Black; the head except the face below the 

 antenna?, the mesonotum and the mesopleura, are smooth, polished and 

 impunctate ; the metathorax is rather closely punctate, the metapleura 

 more coarsely punctate ; the face below the insertion of the antenna? is 

 rather finely punctate, and one may detect a few small punctures on the 

 forehead ; the antenna?, except some dark stains at the apex of the joints, 

 the front coxae, their femora beneath and their tibiae and tarsi, middle 

 trochanters except at apex, an annulus at base of their tibiae, the hind 

 coxae except at apex, base of first joint of trochanters, all tibial spurs, 

 and an annulus before the apex of the abdominal petiole, all yellow- 

 testaceous ; rest of legs black. Wings clear hyaline, the stigma and 

 veins brownish-black, the discoidal cells wanting. 



Type.— Cat. No. 6077, U. S. N. M. (Ashmead Collection). 



Habitat.— Trinidad, W. I. 



Described from a single specimen. 



Hyptia Floridana^ new species. 



& . — Length, 2.5 to 2.75 mm. Wholly black, except the sutures of 

 the joints of the middle and front legs, their tarsi and all tibial spurs, 

 which are testaceous. The head and the mesonotum are distinctly 

 punctate, but more sparsely punctate on the vertex and on the disk of the 

 mesonotum ; the mesopleura anteriorly are smooth and polished, while 

 the metathorax, except sparsely on the disk, is coarsely umbilicately 

 punctate. Wings hyaline, the tegula? yellowish, the veins brownish. 



Type.— Cat. No. 607S, U. S. N. M. (Ashmead Collection). 



Habitat. — Jacksonville and Biscayne Bay, Florida. 



Described from 2 specimens. The specimen from Biscayne Bay was 

 collected by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



Hyptia Johnsoni, new species. 



£ . — Length, 5 mm. Black, except the metanotum above and 

 surrounding the abdominal petiole. The head and thorax are distinctly 

 but not closely punctate, the punctures being separated ; the face has a 

 sericeous pubescence ; the mesopleura are smooth, polished and 

 impunctate, except a few, minute, faint punctures toward the coxa? ; while 

 the wings are hyaline, without discoidal cells, the tegula? and the veins 

 being black or brown-black. 



Type. — Cat. No. 6079, U. S. N. M. (Ashmead Collection). 



Habitat. — Philadelphia, Pa. 



Described from a single specimen received from Mr. C. W. Johnson. 



