290 BULLETIN 15, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



with faint indiciitions of parapsiilal fiinows posti'iiorly; scutollum 

 cnimliforin, similar to tlu' Cyiiipid f>eim.s Eucoila; metatliorax pubes- 

 cent, with Literal earina-. 



Winpfs veinless, sliglitly fringed. 



Abdomen ovate, petiohite, the jH'tiole lonjjer than thick, striated. 



Lejfs chxvate, tlie tibial spars weak, scarcely develo]K'd, the tarsi .")- 

 jointed, a little lonjjer tlian the tibia', the basal joint of hind tarsi fully 

 3 times as long as the second. 



A remarkable genus readily distinguished by the cupnliform scntel- 

 luni and aftbrding additional evidence of the close atlinities existing be- 

 tween the ProctotiypUkv and the parasitic CifHipida: 



Ccelopelta mirabllis, h]>. nov. 

 (PI. xii.FiK. (i,^.) 



i. Length, 0.8'"". Bhu-k, polished; a;:tenna' brown, the scape 

 yellow; legs reddish yellow, the coxa' black; nietath<nax with a silvery 

 pubescence; wings hyaline, iridescent, the hind wings rounded at 

 apex, with long cilia; abdomen ovate, polished, the petiole subopa([ue, 

 striated and bare. 



Habitat. — St. Vincent, W. I. 



Type in National Museum. 



Described from a single specimen <!ollected by Herbert H. Smith. 



ANOPEDIAS Foistor. 

 Hym. Stud., ii, p. 108 (18r)6). 



Head transverse, the occiput not or indistinctly margined; ocelli 3, 

 triangularly arranged, the lateral usually wide from the eye nuirgin. 



Antennae 10-jointed in botli sexes, club in the $4-jointed, the joints 

 being but slightly thicker than the funicle, cylindric, much longer than 

 thick, the first funiclar joint small, the second, third, and fourth nearly 

 equal; in S ending in a 5- or 6-jointed club, the joints loosely joined, the 

 last the largest and thickest, ovate or cone-shaped, the first funiclar joint 

 very minute. 



Thorax ovoid, the mesonotum rather short, convex, without furrows, 

 or with the furrows exceedingly delicate and so tine as to be overlooked 

 without a strong lens; scutellum tlat or subconvex, unarmed at apex 

 and without fovea? at base, separated from the mesonotum by a delicate, 

 transverse, impressed line; metathorax very short, with 2 dorsal carinai 

 and lateral carinte. 



Wings veinless. ' 



Abdomen in 9 ovate or pointed, in S oblong-oval, longer than the 

 thorax, or the thorax and head united, the first segment i)etioliform, 

 the second, very large, with 2 foveohei at base. 



Legs clavate, the tarsi longer than their tibise, the basal joint of hind 

 tarsi a little more than twice the length of the second. 



