CHALCIDID^ OF THE ISLAIS'D OF GRENADA. 157 



Ablebus, Howard. 



AbLERUS CLISIOCAMPiE. 



Centrodora clisiocampee, Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iii. p. 10 

 (1894). Florida. 



Ablerus clisiocampse, Howard, Revision of the Aphelinince of North 

 America, p. 42 (1895), Dist. of Columbia ; Champaign, 111. 



One female, Balthazar, 1900 feet, on foliage on ground. 



Ablebtjs atjreokotus, sp. n. 



$ . Lengtli 0"58 mm. ; expanse 1-35 mm. Eyes red ; pro- 

 notum and tip of abdomen black ; base of abdomen ligbt yellow ; 

 mesonotum golden yellow; legs uniformly dull honey-yellow; 

 wings slightly infuseated, paler at tips ; wing-veins dark brown ; 

 antennae (broken except for the scape and 3 pedicel and 3 funicle- 

 joints of the right one) uniformly honey-yellow. 



Described from one female in poor condition, Balthazar, 

 300 feet, shady bank of stream. 



Subfamily Elasminje. 



Elasmus, Westwood. 



Elasmtjs Smithii. 



Elasmus Smithii, Howard, Linn. Journ., Zool. xxv. pp. 104-5. St, 

 Vincent. 



Eour females taken in April in the house on windows. 



Elasmtjs flavoscutellatus, sp. n. 



$. Length 1"7 mm.; expanse 3'5 mm.; greatest width of 

 fore wing 0*39 mm. Comes closest to JE. Smithii, from which it 

 differs mainly in the possession of a rather broad, semicircular 

 yellow band around the posterior margin of the mesoscutellumr 

 Greneral colour dark metallic green ; antennae dark brown ; front 

 femora and tibiae honey-yellew ; front coxae metallic at base, 

 middle coxae honey-yellow, hind coxae metallic except at tip ; 

 middle and bind femora metallic above and with a broad median 

 transverse dark band ; middle tibiae honey-yellow; dark lines of 

 hind tibiae forming four cells, one long and one short, covering 

 the length of the sclerite, and two short ones to the outside ; all 

 tarsi black ; tegulae yellow at tip ; semicircular band around 

 apical border of mesoscutellum and all of mesopostscutellum 

 yellow ; abdomen dark above and yellowish below, the dark 

 upper colour having a tendency towards extending down on the 



