780 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, 



Subfamily TRXPHOurN'^. 



Orthocenthus, Grav. 



Orthocentriis tariabilis, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. 

 p. 141. 



Mount Gay Estate. One female specimen. 



Subfamily Crtptis^^. 

 Mesostenus, Grav. 



Mesostenus iNSTJLARis, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. 

 p. 138. 



Balthazar. One female specimen. 



Hemiteles, Gravenhorst. 



Hemiteles maculithorax, sp. n. 



c? . Length 2*2 mm. Polished black, impunctate, except some 

 fine transverse lines on the middle lobe of mesonotum ; meso- 

 notum piceous, with the parapsidal furrows distinct anteriorly, the 

 furrows anteriorly, the margins of the lateral lobes, and a large 

 spot on the middle lobe posteriorly before the scutellum reddish 

 yellow ; tegulae yellowish white ; hind coxae and first and last 

 abdominal segments black, second abdominal segment yellow, 

 third, fourth, and fifth piceous. 



Antennae 19-jointed, as long as the body, brownish yellow, but 

 with the three basal joints yellow ; first joint of flagellum the 

 longest, the following to the last gradually becoming shorter, the 

 last conical, about twice as long as the penultimate. Metathorax 

 smooth, but distinctly areolated. Wings hyaline, with the venation 

 pale yellowish ; legs brownish yellow, the hind femora dusky at 

 the middle, the hind tibiae with a small spot beyond the base and 

 its apex, dusky. 



Mount Gay Estate. Described from one male specimen. 



DiAGLYPTA, Forster. 



DiAGLrPTA RADIATA, Sp. H. 



2 . Length 7 mm, ; ovipositor one-third the length of abdomen. 

 Head and thorax black, shining, sparsely covered with a glittering 

 white pubescence ; tegulae and palpi yellowish white ; two basal 

 joints of antennae, legs, and abdomen rufous. Wings hyaline, the 

 anterior pair with a transverse brown band beyond the basal third 

 and another broader band across the disk, enclosing the stigma 

 and most of the radial cell, leaving only the apical fifth of the 

 wings clear ; hind wings with the apical one-fom-th brown. 



Head transverse, much wider than the thorax, with large pro- 

 minent eyes, which occupy the whole side of the head, slightly 

 convergent above and making the head appear convex before and 

 behind ; head before punctate, clothed with a glittering white 



