158 DB- L- O. HOWABD OK THE 



sides in bands; tip of pygidium and terebra black. Abdomen 

 longer than thorax; closed wings reaching exactly to tip of 

 abdomen. 



Described from two females swept from herbage April 3, at 

 an elevation of 250 feet. 



ElASMUS OELLULA.TUS, Sp. n. 



S . Length 1'4 mm. ; expanse 3 mm. ; greatest width of fore 

 wing0"36 mm. Head with close, rather small thimble-like punc- 

 tures. General colour dark metallic blue-green ; antennae light 

 brown ; tip of all coxae, all of front and middle tibiae, base and 

 tip of middle and hind femora pallid; all tarsi dark; tegulae 

 metallic ; no trace of yellow on scutellum or postscutellum ; 

 dark lines of hind tibiae arranged in two longitudinal rows of 

 interfitting cells, three and a half cells to each row. Abdomen 

 shorter than thorax ; closed wings extending considerably beyond 



tip. 



Described from one male taken on stones of stream April 13, 

 at 350 feet elevation. 



ElASMUS LETIFROIfS. 



Elasmus levifrons, Hoivard, Linn. Journ., Zool. xxv. pp. 101-102. St. 

 Vincent. 



One female, April 3, Balthazar, 250 feet, swept from herbage. 



Subfamily Elachistiit^. 

 Efplectrijs, Westwood. 



Extplectbtts FTJEisriTrs. 



Euplectrus furniua, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, xii. p. 48 

 (=bicolor, Swed.). St. Vincent. 



Euplectrus furnius, Howard, Linn. Journ., Zool. xxv. p. 105. St. Vin- 

 cent. 



Eleven males and females, Balthazar, Chantilly estate, and 

 Grrand Etang (windward side), and Mount Gay estate and St. 

 George's (leeward side), captured under varying conditions. The 

 species is probably parasitic upon noctuid larvae. 



Hoploceepis, Ashmead. 



HOPLOOEEPIS GEEKADEKSIS, Sp. U. 



2 . Eesembles the type-specimen of this hitherto' mionotypical 

 genus except in the following particulars : — The thorax instead 



