1865.] 91 



body, piceous-black, several basal joints honey-yellow; mesothorax 

 convex, smooth and polished, slightly indented on each side in front; 

 scutellum smooth and polished, transversely excavated in front ; meta- 

 thorax rugose; tegulae pale fulvous. Wings hyaline, iridescent; ner- 

 vures and stigma fuscous. Legs paler fulvous than the body, tips of 

 the tarsi dusky. Abdomen rather broadly ovate, smooth and polished, 

 except the basal segment which is carinated and gradually narrowed to 

 the base. Length 1 line; expanse of wings 2J lines. 

 Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



Fam. CHALCIDID^E. 



Gen. LEUCOSPIS, Fabr. 

 Leucospis Poeyi, Guer. 

 Leucospis Poeyi, Guer., Icon. Reg. An. iii, p. 414 ; LaSagra's Hist. Cuba, pi. 18, f. 4. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Two ( S 9 ) specimens. 

 This species is parasitic upon Megachile Poeyi Gluer. 



Genus SMIERA, Spin. 

 Smiera Lanieri, Guer. 



Chalcis Lasnierii, Guer., Icon. Reg. Anim. iii, p. 412, pi. 67, f. 4. 

 Chalcis Lanieri, Guer., LaSagra's Hist. Cuba. Ins. p. 753. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Two specimens. 



Smiera coccinea, n. sp. 



Bright scarlet; vertex, occiput, most of antennae, tegulse, and four anterior 

 legs, black; wings dark fuscous; scutellum transversely rugose. 



Bright scarlet, shining, pubescent; head black, the face, lower part 

 of the cheeks, clypeus and mandibles, scarlet; antennae brown-black, 

 inserted on the middle of the face, paler towards the tips which are 

 testaceous, flagellum thickened at base. Thorax : prothorax and pleura 

 roughly punctured ; mesothorax rather feebly and indistinctly punc- 

 tured ; scutellum transversely rugose ; metathorax coarsely rugose ; 

 tegulae black, shining. Wings ample, dark fuscous, costa black. Legs 

 scarlet, pubescent; the four anterior tibiae, all the tarsi, and the poste- 

 rior trochanters beneath, black; the hind coxae very elongate, their 

 femora much swollen and armed beneath with a row of small subacute 

 teeth, tipped with black, their tibiae cui-ved and acute at tips. Abdo- 

 men small, subcorneal, smooth and polished, obtusely pointed at tip, 

 scarcely compressed ; petiole about one-third the length of the remain- 

 der of the abdomen. Length 3 lines; expanse of wings 7 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



Allied to S. Lanieri, but is at once distinguished by the thorax, and 

 the posterior coxae, femora and tibiae being entirely red, and the four 

 anterior legs black. 



