CHALCIDID^ or THE ISLAND OF GRENADA. 941 



eertion ; antennal depression very broad, and distinguislied by a 

 curved line above ; scape slender, short, shorter than in preceding 

 species; pedicel moderate, triangular; funicle-joint 1 equal in 

 length and width to pedicel, joints 2 to 6 increasing rapidly 

 in width to club, subequal in length ; club broad, flattened, 

 nearly as long as three preceding funicle-joints together. Eyes 

 approximate; ocelli very small, at angles of an acute-angled 

 triangle. Pronotum with golden pubescence ; mesonotum with 

 -close silvery pubescence ; scutellar tuft extremely long, longer 

 than scutellum itself, black in colour. Marginal vein longer than 

 stigmal, very thick ; stigmal and postmarginal extremely short, 

 the former a little longer than the latter, which is almost wanting ; 

 ^ngle between the two fully 45 degrees : the whole surface of 

 the fore wing rather deeply infuscated, with hyaline stripe near 

 base and a similar hairless streak below marginal vein ; beginning 

 of a faint hyaline transverse streak at tip of stigmal. Lower 

 part of face smooth, front finely shagreened, vertex smooth ; 

 mesopleura finely shagreened. Greneral colour black, shining; 

 more or less metallic purplish reflections on face below, on meso- 

 pleura, mesonotum, and abdomen ; mesoscutellum and axillae 

 ^ark brown ; middle coxae black, front and hind coxae brown ; 

 hind femora and tibiae black, front femora and tibias brown, 

 middle femora and tibiae brown, femora lighter than tibiaa ; tarsi 

 whitish. 



One female specimen, Balthazar, April 7, 250 feet, in weedy 

 place near stream. 



CoMTS, I'oerster. 



COMTS BICOLOE. 



Comvs bicolor, Howard, Ann, Rep. U.S. Dept. Agric, 1880, p. 362. 

 District of Columbia. 



Two females, Balthazar, April 7, 250 feet, open weedy place. 

 >One specimen is much darker than the other, and than the type- 

 specimen from the district of Columbia ; it is not, however, to 

 Jbe separated structurally. 



Leptomastix, Foerster. 



Leptomastix dactylopii. 



Leptomastix dactylopii, Howard, Bull. 5, Div. Entom. U.S. Dept 

 Agric. 1885, pp. 23-24. District of Columbia. 



Leptomastix dactylopii, Howard, Linn, Journ., Zool. xxv. p. 92. 

 St. Vincent. 



