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from month border; scape rathei- short, with no leaf-like expansion; 

 pedicel is shorter or longer than first fnnicle Joint: fnnicle moderately 

 com]>ressed or almost entirely cylindrical; clnb as long as two or three 

 last funcicle joints together. Facial depression slight; genal snlcus 

 sharp, reaching from the eye to the mouth border; front and vertex 

 Aery broad: ocelli at the corners of an obtuse-angled triangle; head 

 thickly and very coarsely punctate: mesoscutum and scutellum rather 

 strongly shagreened, with sparse hair-bearing punctures; pleura sha- 

 greened, not glistening; axilhe of the slightly arched scutellum meet 

 at tips; ovipositor entirely or almost entirely hidden Wings wholly 

 or partly infuscated. Marginal vein is as long as or somewhat shorter 

 than stigmal, never very short; postmargiual variable in length, 



Male. — Somewhat like the female; scape short, pedicel as long as 

 broad; fuuicle joints and club subequal in thickness, with short and 

 rather close pile; sculpture of the head is lighter and sparser than in 

 the female, the thorax also with finer sculpture; scutellum, especially 

 I)ehind, uKue strongly arched than with female; wings not infuscated; 

 venation like female. 



ADDENDUM. 



Walker's genus Aenasius, just redescribed by the writer,* belongs to 

 this new tribe. It differs at once from the genera here described by 

 possessing a broad leaf-like expansion to the antenna! scope. It is a 

 monotypical genus, and has been found only on the island of St. Tin- 

 cent, B, W, 1, 



*Jouiual Liiiuiuan Society, xxv, 1804. ]). 88. 



