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antennse pale throughout, except the basal joint which is piceous-black ; vesti- 

 ture moderate and subeven in length, subdecunibenfc, rather dense, very coarse 

 and silvery in the pale elytral areas, finer and brownish in the darker spots 

 and fascia. Head ti'ansverse, the eyes occupying virtually the entire surface 

 as seen vertically, except a triangular median area at base, which is very 

 densely punctate and opaque; antennae three-fifths as long as the bodj-. Pro- 

 thorax much narrower than the head, scarcely as long as wide, the sides par- 

 allel and straight in basal two-thirds, then strongly oblique to the rounded 

 apex, which is scarcely three-fifths as wide as the base; disk not impressed, very 

 densely, subtubercularly punctate and opaque, the pubescence very coarse and 

 silvery in a large median area toward base and also at the sides. Elytra nearly 

 as in melsheimeri, but much more densely punctate and duller, the blackish 

 spots and zigzag fascia? mvich better defined; omoplates evident. AMonun 

 rather finely but strongly and somewhat densely j)unctate, the legs rather 

 long. Length 2.1 mm. ; width 0.8 mm. 



Florida (St. Nicholas). 



Differs greatl}^ from melsheimeri in its much larger eyes, 

 denser sculpture and more variegated pubescence. The antennse 

 in both of these species become discontinuous in direction from 

 the apex of the third joint, each joint after the third to the tenth 

 bearing a very long slender pilose internal ramus, and gradually 

 becoming longer and thinner in form, the eleventh ver3' much 

 longer, constituting by itself the outermost ramus of the flabel- 

 lum. and having a remarkable knob-like enlargement near its 

 apex which is much larger and more noticeable in ashmeadi. 



I have dedicated this interesting species to Mr. W. H. Ashmead 

 of Washington, the well known student of parasitic Hymenoptera, 

 to whom I am indebted for the unique type. 



ZOIVAIVTES n. gen. 



This genus is rather closely allied to Emelinus, but differs in 

 having the suture dividing the basal segment of the abdomen 

 completely obsolete toward the middle and only feebly indicated 

 at the sides, in the smaller and normal punctures, in the trans- 

 versely parallelogramic prothorax which is subequal in width to 

 the head, in the generally shorter, more oval and convex form of 

 the body, and in the simple antennje of both sexes. The eyes are 

 large, coarsely faceted, coarsely and sparsely pilose, deeply, sub- 

 angularly emarginate and generally at a slight distance from the 

 base, the tempora being much less prominent and rectangular. 

 The epistomal suture is rather fine, the fourth joint of the maxil- 



