802 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD — EEPOET OK THE PAEASITIO [Nov. 19, 



(2) POLTMEOTIS GEENADBNSIS, Sp. n. 



2 . Length 1 mm. Polished black ; scape and legs brownish 

 yellow, the tips of hind femora and tibisB dusky ; metapleura and 

 base of abdomen with a sihery pubescence ; scutellum armed with 

 a small tubercle ; last three segments of abdomen forming a stylus, 

 but united not longer than the rest of the abdomen and thorax 

 united, the penultimate segment being the longest, longer than 

 the other ,two united. 



Grand Etang. Described from one female specimen. 



The antennae were folded under the body in such a way as to 

 prevent them from being studied ; but the species may be readily 

 recognized by the characters in the last three abdominal segments. 



Saotogastee, Porster. 



Sactogastee eupipes, Ashm. 1. c. p. 238. 

 Mount Gay Estate. Eight female specimens. 



Stnopias, Porster. 



Stnopias plavipes, sp. n. 



5 . Length 0'65 mm. Polished black ; antennte, except the 

 club, and legs, including the coxae, yellow ; club brown-black ; 

 wings hyaline. The funicle is slender, the first joint scarcely 

 longer than thick, the second very slightly thicker, the third a 

 Httle longer, the fourth minute ; club ^-jointed, the joints, except 

 the last, transverse-quadrate, the last ovate. Mesonotum entirely 

 without furrows ; tip of scutellum with a small tubercle ; meta- 

 thorax clothed with a silvery-white pubescence, while the abdomen 

 is ovate. 



cJ . Differs from female only in the usual difference in the shape 

 of the abdomen and in having a 5-jointed, light brown, antennal 

 club, the joints being oblong and bearded, the second funicular joint 

 being stouter and much longer than the first, the third minute. 



Balthazar and Mount Gay Estate. Described from the female 

 and two male specimens. 



Subfamily X. Diapeiin^. 



Tribe i. Spilomiceini. 

 Paeamesitjs, "Westwood. 



Paeamesitjs thoeacicus, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. 

 p. 245. 



Balthazar, Grenada. One female specimen. 



SpiLOMiCEirs, Westwood. 

 SpiLOMiCErs VTJiGAEis, Ashm. 1. c. p. 247. 

 Balthazar. One female specimen. 



