214 Mr. W. H. Ashmead's 



19, Mcgacliilc minima, n. sp. 



5. Length 6-6"5 mm. Black; face and cheeks ckithed with a 

 dense, wliitisli pubescence (in one specimen yellowish), the pubescence 

 on the clypeus with some black hairs interspersed through the white ; 

 vertex with long black hairs. Ocelli pale. Pronotum at sides, 

 mesoj^leura, angles of metathorax and the anterior coxa) and femora 

 beneath with a white pubescence. Legs black, with glittering white 

 hairs, interspersed with a few black hairs. All tibial spurs and the 

 basal half of the claws, yellowish. Thorax with some black hairs 

 above. Abdomen short, subglobose, the ventral segments narrowly 

 fringed with white hairs ; dorsal segments 1-5 narrowly fringed 

 with white hairs and usually, except the fifth, broadly interrupted 

 medially. Antenna) long, extending to base of abdomen, black. 

 Head and thorax closely punctate. Tegula) rufo-piceous. Wings 

 subhyaline, the stigma rufous, the veins piceous. Abdomen distinctly, 

 but not thickly, punctate, the dorsal segments 1-3 depressed at apex, 

 the dejoressed portion on the second and third, finely shagreened ; 

 pygidium with a I'eflexed rim at apex. 



St. Vincent. Described from five J specimens. 



20. Mcgachile hinofata, Guerin. 



1845. Mcgachile Idnotata, Guerin, Iconog. regn. anini., 



Ins., p. 450. 

 1896. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., x, p. 422. 



$ . Length 12-12*5 mm. Black, with a l)lack pubescence, the 

 ventral scopa black ; face, except clypeus medially and anteriorily, 

 temples and the basal segment at the lateral apical angles, clothed 

 with a pure white pubescence ; dorsal abdominal segments 2-4 very 

 narrowly fasciate with white pubescence. Head and thorax finely, 

 closely punctate. Mandibles strong, 4-dentate within. Antennae 

 rather short, black, extending to tegulae, the fiagellum brownish 

 beneath. Tegulae black. Wings fusco-hyaline, the stigma and veins 

 piceous. Tibial spurs and claws, except tips, honey-yellow. Abdo- 

 men, except the last segment, almost smooth, sparsely punctate. 



Grenada — Si. George's (Leeward side) ; St. Vincent ; 

 and Grenadines — Canonan. Described from nine ^ 

 specimens. 



