210 Mr. W. H. Ashmead's 



Genus Melissodes, Latreille. 

 8. Mdissodcs trifasciatclla, n. sp. 



$ . Length 8-9 mm. Black ; head and tliorax with black pub- 

 escence, the lace and labrum with sparse white hairs, the temples 

 and cheeks with a rather dense whitish pubescence ; pro thoracic 

 tubercles fringed with white hairs ; mesopleura sparsely, the meta- 

 thorax, especially laterally and the basal segment of abdomen, 

 clothed with a whitish or griseous pubescence ; abdominal segments 

 2, 3, and 4, with a narrow transverse median fascia of appressed 

 white hairs (sometimes indistinct or wanting) ; anterior and middle 

 tarsi beneath, and the hind tibioe and tarsi, with a dense ferruginous 

 scopa ; all tarsi except basal joint above, and the tibial spurs, ferru- 

 ginous ; flagellum Ijrownish beneath ; wings subfuscous, the veins 

 brown-black, the stigma ferruginous. 



St. Vincent — Kingstown. Described from six ^ 

 specimens, of which four specimens, probably rubbed, 

 have only slight indications of the fasciae on the abdomen. 



9. Melissodes miniica, Cresson. 



1869. Melissodes mimiect, Cress., Tr. Am. Ent., ii, p. 



288,^. 

 1896. Uncera mimiea, Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., x, p. 240. 



Grenada — St. George's (Leeward side), St. John's River ; 

 St. Vincent. Thirteen $ and 31 $ specimens. 



Genus Exomalopsis, Spinola. 



10. Exomalopsis rufitarsis, Smith. 



1879. Exomalopsis rufitarsis, Smith, Descrip. New Sp. 



Hym., p. 126, ?. 

 1896. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., x, 



p. 299. 



St. Vincent. Many specimens. 



11. Exomalopsis puhcscens, Cresson. 



1865. Exomalopsis pubescens, Cress., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 



iv, p. 192, t 

 1896. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., x, 



p. 299. 



St. Vincent, uOO feet; Grenada (Windward side) — 

 Balthazar. Eight specimens, two $ and six $. 



