CHALCIDID^ OP THE ISLAJfD OP GEENADA. 151 



little longer than 5 and 6 together ; vertex broad ; ocelli large 

 and brilliantly coloured, forming a slightly acute-angled triangle. 

 General colour orange-yellow ; scape black, white at extreme 

 tip ; pedicel black at base, white at tip ; remainder of flagellum 

 dusky; pronotum with a whitish border and a distinct black 

 spot at each shoulder ; tegulse dirty white ; abdomen and meta- 

 notum black above, the abdomen with black centre below, whitish 

 at sides ; all legs and pleura dirty white ; wings hyaline, veins 

 dusky. 



One male, Balthazar, June 11, 250 feet, flying at sunset after 

 heavy rain. 



Enctetus, Dolman. 



Enctettjs submetallicus, sp. n. 



$ . Length I'O mm. ; expanse 22 mm. Scape long, slender, 

 not expanded, reaching to middle ocellus ; flagellum subcylin- 

 drical ; pedicel three times as long as broad ; first funicle-joint 

 about ha]f as long as pedicel, remaining funicle-joints subequal 

 in length, each slightly longer than joint 1 and increasing almost 

 imperceptibly in width ; club long ovate, not wider than funicle- 

 joint 6, flattened from side, plainly divided into three equal 

 joints and nearly as long as three preceding funicle-joints 

 together; funicle-joints slightly hairy. Head semicircular in 

 profile ; antennae distant at base ; facial depression triangular ; 

 eyes approximate, naked ; ocelli rather close together, forming a 

 nearly right-angled triangle ; thorax nearly flat, mesoscutellum 

 slightly elevated ; axillse well separated at tips ; vertex very 

 finely shagreened, mesoscutum rather more coarsely shagreened ; 

 mesoscutellum densely and finely punctate, except at posterior 

 border which is smooth ; mesopleura smooth, shining ; abdomen 

 smooth. Pore wings rather narrow, marginal vein very short, 

 postmarginal lacking ; stigmal very short ; wings hyaline, with 

 a yellow-brown cloud below stigmal, extending backwards nearly 

 to base of wing. General colour black, slightly metallic ; head 

 piceous, mesoscutum with slight greenish reflections, meso- 

 scutellum with bronzy reflections, mesopleura with purplish 

 reflections ; underside of abdomen, all legs, and scape of antennae 

 below light honey-yellow ; scape above and flagellum brown. 



Three females, Chantilly estate and Balthazar, April 6, 400 

 feet, on high weeds in young nutmeg orchard ; April 7, 250 feet, 

 near stream. 



