2l6 ASHMEAD 



first abdominal segment with its dorsal carinse, black ; face with a 

 spot at each anterior angle, clypeus, a spot at base of mandibles, epi- 

 tegulae, costae, and a spot at base of stigma, ivory, or yellowish-white ; 

 legs ferruginous. Wings subfuscous, the stigma and veins, except as 

 noted, brown. Face finely punctate, the vertex and the thorax smoother, 

 shining but spai^sely, minutely punctate ; the prothorax in the lateral 

 depressions is distinctly wrinkled ; the metathorax is short but strongly 

 and completely areolated ; while the first and second dorsal segments 

 of the abdomen are finely rugulose, the first with two strong dorsal 

 carinas that become obsolete at the apical third of the segment. 



Type. — Cat. No. 564S, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Fopof Island, 

 July 9. One specimen. 



Genus Sychnoportus Forster. 

 SYCHNOPORTUS LONGITARSIS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 4 mm. Black ; face below antennae, except a black 

 line extending off oblique from the basal sutures of the clypeus on to 

 the cheeks, the clypeus, the mandibles and the front and middle coxae 

 and trochanters lemon-yellow ; the legs, except the middle coxte above, 

 the hind coxae anteriorly, first joint of their trochanters, tips of their 

 tibiae and tarsi, which are black or fuscous, and the abdomen, except 

 the basal two thirds of the first segment and segments 5 , 6 and 7 which 

 are black, are rufous. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins brown. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5649, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Kukak Bay, 

 July 4. One specimen. 



Genus Tlemon Forster. 

 TLEMON DELICATUS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 5 mm. Black; clypeus, mandibles, hypotegul^e 

 and the epitegulae lemon-yellow ; palpi, tegulae and the front and 

 middle coxae and trochanters, ivory or yellowish- white ; hind coxae 

 black, first joint of hind trochanters above, apex of their tibiae and 

 their tarsi fuscous, the remainder of the legs reddish-yellow or brown- 

 ish-yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins bro^vn. Face 

 feebly coriaceous, the clypeus highly polished, impunctate ; thorax 

 above and a spot on the middle of the mesopleura smooth, shining, im- 

 punctate while the metathorax is rugulose, not short, and incompletely 

 areolated. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5650, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Kukak Bay, 

 July 4. One specimen. 



