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nucha. Thorax above aud top of bead with sparse white scaly 

 pile. Greueral colour black, slightly glistening and faintly metallic 

 in some lights ; antennal scape, tegulse, all trochanters, tips of 

 femora, and all tibiae light brown. "Wings hyaline, veins light 

 brown. 



Three females, Balthazar and Mount Gray estate, April 3-10, 

 250 feet, one taken in house on window and the others swept 

 from herbage. 



POLTCTSTTJS NI&RISCAPUS, Sp. n. 



5 . Length 1*7 mm. ; expanse 29 mm. Differs from P. ni- 

 gritus in the following particulars : — Head only slightly broader 

 than thorax ; cheeks rounded ; genal sulcus not indistinct. An- 

 tennae inserted far below middle of face ; pedicel twice as long as 

 wide ; funicle shortened, joints 5 and 6 considerably wider than 

 long; club oval, flattened, as long as three preceding funiele- 

 joints together. Metanotal characters cannot be made out in the 

 single badly-mounted specimen. Thorax with no scaly pile. 

 Antennal scape black, yellowish at extreme base. 



One female, Mount Gray estate, 250 feet, April 6, in dry 

 second-growth woods on foliage. 



Tribe MiscTiogastrides. 

 Halticopteea, Spinola. 



Halticopteea subpetiolata, sp. n. 



c?. Length 2'2 mm. ; expanse 4-0 mm. Head subtriangular ; 

 petiole distinct, rugose, twice as long as wide ; head broader than 

 pronotum ; head, pro- and mesonotum closely and finely punc- 

 tulate ; metanotum finely shagreened, with distinct median and 

 lateral carinas ; petiole closely punctate, with distinct and com- 

 plete dorsal median longitudinal carina, and with anterior and 

 median lateral projections ; abdomen smooth, glistening. Antennae 

 rather stout ; scape reaching to middle ocellus ; ring-joints 

 distinct ; funicle-joint 1 stouter but shorter than pedicel, about 

 as long as broad ; remaining funicle-joints subequal in length, 

 but increasing very slightly in width ; club oval, flattened. 

 Thorax convex ; second segment of abdomen longer than all 

 others together. General colour metallic green; head and 

 thorax dull metallic green except hind margin of pronotum and 

 except metanotum, which are bright and glistening ; abdomen 



