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The male agrees with the female, except that the legs are a little 

 more slender, the head above usually dusky or brownish, sometimes 

 wholly metallic green or blue-green, while the abdomen is much 

 depressed, elongate ovate, fully as long, if not longer, than the 

 thorax. The flagellar joints are widened at base, becoming narrower 

 towards the apex, delicately fluted, the first joint being the widest. 



St, Vincent, W. I., and Cocoanut Grove, South Florida. 

 Described from six $ and nine $ specimens reared by E. A. 

 Schwarz from Ficus pcdimcidata in South Florida, and a 

 single $ from St. Vincent. 



188. Sycophila inccrta, n. sp. 



$. Length 2 mm.; oviiDositor a little shorter tlian the abdomen. 

 Brownish-yellow, feebly coriaceous ; eyes and ovipositor black ; 

 ocelli red, Antenntc 13-jointed, with a ring-joint, inserted on the 

 middle of the face ; the scape half as long as the flagellum excluding 

 the pedicel ; pedicel longer than thick at tip ; flagellum subclavate, 

 the joints transverse. Prothorax rather large, narrowed in front ; 

 mesonotum with distinct furrows ; scutellum oblong -quadrate, the 

 axillae convex ; metanotum transverse. Wings hyaline, with a short 

 marginal fringe, the venation pale or yellowish, the stigmal ner- 

 vure rather long, slightly oblique, subclavate, longer than the 

 marginal, the postmarginal nervure not developed. Abdomen broadly- 

 oval or rotund-oval, depressed, subpetiolate, much wider than, but not 

 quite as long as, the thorax, the segments nearly of an equal length. 



The ^ agrees with the 9 ) excepting the usual sexual differences 

 and in having the apex of the abdominal segments margined with 

 brown. 



St. Vincent, W. I., and Cocoanut Grove, South Florida. 

 Described from one f and three ^ specimens. Two of tlie 

 female specimens were reared by Mr. E. A. Schwarz from 

 Ficus peduncidata in South Florida, the others were 

 collected by H. H. Smith in St. Vincent. 



Subfamily II. TORYMIX^^. 



Genus Syntomaspis, Forster, 

 139, Syntomaspis 'punctifrons, Ashmead. 

 Grenada. Smith's No, G5, One $ specimen. 



