252 Mr. W. H. Ashmead's 



Family LXI. TORYMID^. 



Subfamily I. IDARNIX^E. 



Genus Idarnes, Walker. 



136. Idarnes carme, Walker. 



1846. Idarnes carme, Walk., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 xii, p. 46. 



St. Vincent. Three $ specimens. 



This species has also been bred from Fig-insects from 

 South Florida by Mr. E. A. Schwarz. The genus is 

 identical with Tctragonaspis, Mayr, as was suspected by 

 Dr. Mayr. Walker's description of the antenna3 is abso- 

 lutely wrong and misleading, and Dr. Mayr cannot be 

 blamed for not recognizing it. Prof. Westwood tells us 

 that Walker's type is still in the British Museum but 

 without a head. 



Genus Sycophila, Walker. 

 137. Sycopliila hicolor, n. sp. 



(^9. Length r5-2 mm.; ovipositor not quite the length of 

 the abdomen. Brownish-yellow, feebly shagreened ; flagellum dark 

 brown ; eyes and ocelli brown ; abdomen black or piceous black ; 

 coxse long, conical, the tibiae and tarsi usually whitish. Head viewed 

 from above transverse quadrate, a little wider than the thorax ; 

 frons with two grooves for the reception of the scape ; face with two 

 parallel impressed lines extending from the base of each antenna 

 forward to the clypeus. Autenna3 13-joiuted, with a ring-joint, 

 inserted a little above the middle of the face, the scape slender ; 

 pedicel a little longer than thick ; flagellum filiform, stout, much 

 thicker than the scape, pubescent, the joints transverse, the first a 

 little the longest. Prothorax subquadrate, narrowed before ; nieso- 

 notaim trilobed, the lateral lobes convex, much shorter than the 

 middle lobe, the latter longer than wide anteriorly ; scutellum 

 oblong-quadrate, the axillas convex ; metathorax short, smooth. 

 Wings hyaline, the venation pale or hyaline ; the stigmal vein 

 rather long, a little oblique or curved, and a little longer than the 

 marginal ; postmarginal not developed. Abdomen ovate or oval, not 

 as wide as the thorax, somewhat depressed above, subcompressed or 

 subcarinated along the venter, the hypopygium prominent, plough- 

 share shaped ; ovipositor rather broad, narrowed at base, not quite 

 as long as the abdomen, pubescent. 



