290 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



with faint imlicatioiis of parapsidal furrows posteriorly; scutelluin 

 cupuliforiD, similar to the Cynipid genus Eucoila; nietathorax pubes- 

 cent, with lateral carina^. 



Wings veinless, slightly fringed. 



Abdomen ovate, petiolate, the petiole longer than thick, striated. 



Legs clavate, the tibial spurs weak, scarcely developed, the tarsi 5- 

 jointed, a little longer than the tibiie, the basal joint of hind tarsi fully 

 3 times as long as the second. 



A remarkable genus readily distinguished by the cupuliform scutel- 

 lum and affording additional evideneeof the close affinities existing be- 

 tween the ProctotrypiiUv and the i)arasitic Cijiiipi<hv. 



Ccelopelta niirabilis, h\k iidv. 

 (PL XII, Fi.u,-. ('), ^.) 



S. Length, 0.8'""'. Black, polished; antenn;e brown, the scape 

 yellow; legs reddish yellow, thecoxa^ black; nietathorax with a silvery 

 pnbescence; wings hyaline, iridescent, tlie hind wings rounded at 

 apex, with long cilia; abdomen ovate, i)olished, the petiole subopaque, 

 striated and bare. 



Habitat. — St. Vincent, W. I. 



Type in National Museum. 



Described from a single specimen collected by Herbert H. Smith. 



ANOPEDIAS Forstcr. 

 Ilym. Stud., ii, p. 108 (1856). 



Head transverse, the occiput not or indistinctly margined; ocelli 3, 

 triangularly arranged, the lateral usually wide from the eye margin. 



Antennae 10-jointed in both sexes, club in the 9 ^-jointed, the joints 

 being but slightly thicker than the funicle, cylindric, much longer than 

 thick, the first funiclar joint small, the second, third, and fourth nearly 

 equal; in S ending in a 5- or 6-joiiited club, the joints loosely joined, the 

 last the largest and thickest, ovate or cone-shaped, the first funiclar joint 

 very minute. 



Thorax ovoid, the mesonotum rather short, convex, without furrows, 

 or with the furrows exceedingly delicate and so fine as to be overlooked 

 without a strong lens; scutellum fiat or subconvex, unarmed at a|)ex 

 and without foveiTB at base, sejiarated from the mesonotum by a delicate, 

 tiausverse, impressed line; nietathorax very short, with 2 dorsal cariuie 

 and lateral carinas. 



AVings veinless. 



Abdomen in $ ovate or pointed, in 6 oblong-oval, longer than the 

 thorax, or the thorax and head united, the first segment ])etioliform, 

 the second, very large, with '2 foveohe at base. 



Legs clavate, the tarsi longer than their tibia', the basal joint of hind 

 tarsi a little more than twice the length of the second. 



