CHALCIDID^ OF THE ISLAND OP GEEKADA. 131 



■Smicra pulclira, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 94 (Cuba), 



Smicra pulchra, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 50 (Mex. Can.). 



Smicra transitiva, Walker, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 57 

 (E. Fla.). 



A single male was taken by Mr. Smith, February 20, at an 

 elevation of 250 feet, on tbe bank of a shady stream under decay- 

 ing leaves on a damp rock. It should probably be separated 

 generically from Spilochalcis on account of the femoral armature. 



Smicra, Spinola. 



Smicra Ceessoni, sp. n. 



2 . Length 3"6 mm. ; expanse 5-2 mm. Scape of antennae 

 three-fourths as long as flagellum. Petiole more than twice as 

 long as rest of the abdomen, and rather longer than the 

 head and thorax together. Hind coxae three-fourths as long as 

 petiole. Head faintly shagreened in the ocellar space, longi- 

 tudinally striate on the face : furnished with close short white 

 pile each side of the insertion of the antennae ; antennal groove 

 with a central carina below, reaching towards the top of the 

 head as far as the middle of the groove ; short, sparse, white 

 hairs on lower face. Mesonotum delicately rugose transversely, 

 almost aciculate. General colour black and honey-yellow. The 

 centre of each of the thoracic sclerites black, margins yellow ; 

 head black above, lower face honey-yellow ; margins of eyes 

 and those of antennal groove yellowish; antennae dark above, 

 yellowish below ; abdomen black above, yellowish on first seg- 

 ment, and another yellowish band a little before the middle ; tip 

 yellowish ; petiole black ; front and middle legs entirely pallid 

 with a tinge of yellowish ; hind coxae honey-yellow below, black 

 above, the black extending nearly to the lower side in an indefinite 

 band on the distal third of the coxa ; hind femora mottled, honey- 

 yellow, blackish, and lighter yellow, the blackish predominating 

 above ; hind tibiae yellowish with a darker central band. Femoral 

 teeth 13 in number, small, dark in colour. 



Described from three female specimens, one swept from 

 herbage, April 7, elevation 250 feet, and the others taken under 

 similar circumstances, April 25. 



The species comes closest to S. debilis (Say), but difiers in its 

 longer scape and longer kind coxae. It resembles rather closely 

 S. meteori of the writer's manuscript, reared from Meteorus 

 hyphantrice^ Eiley, in the district of Columbia. 



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