290 Mr. W. H. Ashmead's 



tliricQ as long as wide, narrowed at apex ; second segment about 

 two-thirds the length of the third, finely, longitudinally aciculated 

 and with two oblique lines laterally. 



Grenada — St. John's Kiver. Described from one $ 

 specimen. 



220. Urogastcr rhomljoidalis, n. sp. 



9 ^. Length 2-2-5 mm.; ovipositor as long as the abdomen. 

 Black, subopaque, closely, finely punctate ; head smooth, shining, 

 impunctate ; clypeus transverse ; mandibles piceous ; palpi white. 

 Antenna3 in 9 about as long as the body, in ^ a little longer, 

 black or brown-black, in $ paler beneath. Thorax closely, finely 

 punctate, the seutellum smooth, polished, rarely with a few punc- 

 tures at ba=ie, the mesopleura anteriorly punctate and pubescent, 

 posteriorly with a depression, smooth and shining. Metathorax 

 rugulose, areolated, the central area rhomboidal. Wings hyaline, 

 iridescent, the tegula? and the costa at base yellowish-white, the 

 rest of the costa and the stigma brown, the latter pale in the ^, 

 the internal veins paler or hyaline ; the submedian cell is the 

 length of the second, discoidal cell longer than the median, the 

 areolet open behind, its petiole slightly bent. Legs yellowish or 

 yellowish-white, in the 5 with the posterior coxas always black or 

 black basally, the tips of hind femora and tips of their tibi;e and 

 the tarsi fuscous. Abdo:nen in ^ black, shining, with the lateral 

 margins of first and second dorsal segments and base of the venter 

 yellow or brownish-yellow, in the 9 black, except a small pale 

 spot at sides of the venter near the base ; in both sexes the plate 

 of the first segment is rugulose and narrowed posteriorly ; the 

 second segment is about one-third the length of the third or at 

 least less than half as long, with oblique, grooved lines at the 

 sides. 



St. Vincent. Described from one ^ and several $ 

 specimens. 



Genus Pseudapanteles, Ashmead, 

 Three species fall into this genus, distinguished as follows : 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



Plate of first abdominal segment more than twice longer than wide, 

 narrowed towards apex or the sides slightly curved outwardly. 2. 



Plate of first abdominal segment nearly three times as long as wide, 

 the sides parallel. 



