ASHMEAD 



Tribe HEMITELINI. 



Genus Spinolia Forster. 



SPINOLIA MINUTA sp. nov. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Polished black ; legs, except hind coxae, 

 ferruginous, the hind femora faintly dusky above. Antennae 20- 

 jointed, slightly thickened toward apex, the scape black, the pedicel 

 yellow, the flagellum brown-black, the first joint being the longest 

 joint. Wings hyaline, narrowed and somewhat abbreviated, the 

 stigma and veins pale yellowish, the areolet entirely absent, the first 

 abscissa of the radius oblique and interstitial with the second recurrent 

 nervure, and having the same direction, the second abscissa of the 

 radius being strongly curved upwards ; the third discoidal cell is very 

 narrow at base. 



Type. Cat. No. 5996, U. S. Nat. Museum. From St. Paul Island 

 (Fur Seal Commission). One specimen. 



Genus Acrolyta Forster. 

 ACROLYTA KARLUKENSIS sp. nov. 



Female. Length 2.5 mm. Ovipositor not longer than the petiole. 

 Polished black ; basal half, or more, of the second dorsal abdominal 

 segment and sometimes the base of the third narrowly at the middle, 

 red ; petiole longitudinally aciculated ; mandibles and legs pale yel- 

 lowish, the coxae, femora and hind tibiae fuscous or brownish. 

 Antennae 2O-jointed, black, the third joint long, cylindrical, about six 

 times as long as thick, with a pale annulus at base, but only a little 

 longer than the fourth. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins light 

 brown. 



Type. Cat. No. 5597, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Karluk (Fur 

 Seal Commission) . One specimen. 



ACROLYTA ACICULATA sp. nov. 



Male. Length 3.5 mm. Polished black, the clypeus rugosely 

 punctate, the face above alutaceous ; mandibles, sutures of trochanters, 

 apices of the femora and the anterior and middle femora beneath, 

 their tibiaa, except the hind pair at apex and tarsi, except middle and 

 hind pairs, rufo-testaceous ; tips of hind tibiae and hind tarsi more or 

 less fuscous or subfuscous. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins 

 reddish-brown, the areolet more or less partly open behind. Antennae 

 24-jointed, the first joint of the flagellum about one third longer than 

 the second, with a pale annulus at extreme base. Abdomen clavate, 



