Report vpon Aculeate Hymcnoptera, 2G9 



Tribe III. LISSONOTINI. 

 Genus Asphragis, Forster. 



175. Asphragia hUineata, n, sp, 



9 . Length 6 mm. Head and thorax lemon-yellow, marked with 

 black as follows : a large spot on vertex enclosing ocelli acd extend- 

 ing to base of antennae, a black line on each lobe of the mesonotum, 

 or where the lobes would be if the parapsidal furrows were defined, 

 a small spot just beneath anterior tegulte, a dusky spot just above 

 the femoral furrow on the mesopleura posteriorly, and a blackish 

 spot on disk of metanotum. The legs are yellowish Init the hind 

 coxa) have a spot at middle outwardly, while the first joint of the 

 hind trochanters, extreme base and apex of their femora, the apex of 

 their tibiie and their tarsi, except first joint basally, are fuscous. The 

 disks of all the abdominal segments are more or less marked willi 

 fuscous, the ovipositor being as long as the abdomen. Wings hyaline, 

 the stigma brown, the areolet entirely wanting. Claws pectinate. 



Grenada — Mount Gay Estate, Described from one ^ 

 specimen. 



Tribe IV. PIMPLINI. 



Genus Pimpla, Gravenhorst. 



176. Pimpla marejineUa, Brulle. 



The U.S. National Museum possesses three $ specimens 

 of this species from Fox's Collection, collected at Jamaica, 

 and labelled Hemitchs inecrta, Cress. It has no relation 

 wliatever to H. inecrta, Cress., the types of which I have 

 examined in the Academy of Sciences, in Philadelpliia. 



Subfamily IV. TRYPIIONINyE. 

 Genus Neurateles, Ratzeburg. 

 177. Neurateles (Orthoccntrus) variahilis, Ashmead. 

 St. Vincent. 



178. Neurateles meridionalis, n. sp. 



9 . Length 3 mm. Polished black ; anterior orbits, face below 

 antennaj, antenna; except towards tips, and legs pale yellowish, the 

 hind femora and tips of their tibiie darker ; palpi and venter whitish. 

 Scape stout, as long as the peditnd and first joint of flagellum united, 

 Hagellar joints gradually sliorteuing, from 12 to beyond not wider 



