1895.] HTMEITOPTEEA Or THE ISLAND OF GBENADA. 801 



b, Scutellum triangular, pubescent at tip, but not 

 ending in a spine. 



(4) Ambltaspis teiakgulakis, Ashm. 1. c. p. 234. 

 Balthazar and Mount Gay Estate. Ten specimens. 



(5) Ambltaspis EUPicoBias, sp. n. 



2 . Length 1*1 mm. Polished black ; antennae and legs, except 

 middle and hind coxae which are black, rufous. Wings subhyaline ; 

 scutellum triangular, pubescent ; metapleura and petiole clothed 

 with a pale pubescence ; pedicel very long, 3 times as long as the 

 first funicular joint ; club dusky, the joints, except the last which is 

 ovate, very little longer than thick. 



Balthazar. Described from one female specimen. 



(6) Ambltaspis BExnorEus, sp. n. 



2 . Length 0"65 to 0*7 mm. Head dusky, the thorax and abdomen 

 brown ; scape, pedicel, legs, and petiole yellow, the flagellum light 

 brown. "Wings hyaline, ciHated. The pedicel is as long as the 

 first two funicular joints united ; funicular joints 2 to 4 moniliform ; 

 club 4-jointed, a little thicker than the funicle, joints 1 and 2 well 

 separated, scarcely longer than wide, joints 3 and 4 closely united, 

 the third transverse-quadrate, the last ovate. 



Balthazar. Described from tw-o female specimens. A small 

 species, readily distinguished by the colour of thorax and abdomen 

 and by the yellow scape and legs. 



Leptacis, Forster. 



Leptacis obsctjeipes, Ashm. 1. c. p. 236. 

 Balthazar. One female specimen. 



PoLTMECtrs, Porster. 



(1) POLTMECUS MACEtTEXrS, sp. n. 



5 . Length 25 mm. Polished black ; scape, except at tip, and 

 legs reddish yellow, the tips of middle and hind femora and tibiae 

 dusky or black ; wings hyaline. 



Head transverse, the lateral ocelli twice as wide from the front 

 ocellus as to the eye-margin ; funicle very slender ; club stout, 

 4-jointed, joints 1 and 2 about equal, very slightly longer than 

 thick, joint 3 quadrate, the last joint subglobose. The scutellum 

 ends in a small tubercle ; metapleura striated and clothed with 

 some sparse glittering white hairs. Abdomen sessile, highly 

 polished, the last three segments forming a very long, slender 

 stylus, the three united being just twice as long as the rest of the 

 abdomen, the thorax, and the head united. 



Balthazar. Described from one female specimen. 



