220 Mr. W. H. Ashmead's 



dorsal segments sparsely and niicroscupicully punctaie basal ly. Hind 

 tibial spurs simple. 



St, Vincent. Described from tliree $ and two $ 

 specimens. 



31, Ilalid'us 'jilumbcus, n. sp. 



9 . Length 3'5-4-5 mm. Head and thorax bluish or plumbeous, 

 more rarely with a slight metallic tinge in certain lights, the vertex 

 and sometimes the face, metallic greenish. Abdomen with a decided 

 bronzed green or teneous tinge, pubescent along the sides and on the 

 two or three apical segments. Mandibles, palpi and tarsi testaceous, 

 rest of the legs variable, from black to rufo-piceous, the tibifo most 

 frequently dark rufo-piceous. Antennie black. Head and thorax 

 sci;lptured as in previous species, the clypeus sometimes with a 

 brassy tinge at base, the elevated lines at base of the metanotum not 

 so distinct and more irregular. Wings hyaline, the teguljB dark 

 brownish to testaceous, the stigma and veins brown. Inner spur of 

 hind tibioe with four branches. 



^ . Length 3-4 mm. Agrees w-ell with the $ in colour, except 

 usually the extreme apex of the femora is pale, the tarsi including 

 the basal joint are pale, while the abdomen is darker, more of an 

 reneous black. The antenn;c are similar to these organs in H. cyaneun 

 but the second joint of the flagellum is scarcely so long as the pedicel 

 and the first joint united. Hind tibial spurs simple. 



St, Vincent, 



82, Halidus sandi-vinccnti, n. sp. 



9 . Length 4-5*5 mm. Agrees very closely with H. plumhevs, biit 

 the head and thorax are metallic green or brassy, the abdomen 

 bronzed green, the sutures of segments sometimes pale or testaceous ; 

 otherwise, in colour and pubescence, it is very similar. 



The $ is similar to the 9 i except in the usual sexual dilFerences, 

 and in that the head on the vertex and the thorax are more decidedly 

 metallic green or brassy, while the abdomen is more of an teneous 

 black. 



Grenada — St. George's, Mount Gay Estate (Leeward 

 side); St, Vincent, Described from many specimens in 

 both sexes, 



33, Halidus mcratus, n, sp, 

 9 , Length 5-6 mm. Head and thorax bright gold-green and 

 uniformly shagreened, impunctate, the metanotum at l>ase irregularly 

 wrinkled and bluish. Abdomen Ijlack with a brown tinge in certain 



