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of being pale brownisli yellow is a ratter dark brown, and the 

 abdomen is nearly black. The petiole instead o£ being white is 

 brown. The wing maculation is as follows : — At proximal third of 

 fore wing a narrow band arises from within the bunch of bristles 

 and extends transversely to hind border, gradually widening ; 

 distad of this brown band is a hyaline band of about the same 

 width, but wider at costa and narrower at hind border, instead of 

 the reverse ; beyond this the wing is brown to apex except for 

 two roundish hyaline patches, one on costal margin just before 

 apex and the other in a corresponding position on hind margin. 



Described from one female, from which unfortunately the 

 head is absent. Mount Gray estate (leeward side), swept from 

 herbage near a stream. 



Pachtscapha, gen. nov. 



S . Scape of antenna inserted near the mouth by a short 

 slender stalk and almost immediately widening enormously in a 

 dorso-ventral direction, becoming nearly as wide as long, and 

 presenting when seen from side the outline of a rounded triangle 

 with its apex at pedicel ; its inner surface is concave and its 

 outer convex ; pedicel short, triangular, twice as long as wide ; 

 fuuicle- joints subequal in length, each about as long as pedicel, 

 moniliform ; club long ovate, slightly wider than last f unicle- 

 joint but nearly twice as long. Face concave, occipital margin 

 and pronotum faintly emarginate ; scutellum without furrows. 

 Abdomen with a distinct but short petiole. Posterior tibiae with 

 two long spurs, as with JEuplectrus, with which it agrees in other 

 respects. 



Pachtscapha insulaeis, sp. n. 



c? . Length 1'6 mm. ; expanse 2*9 mm. Head and thorax 

 with sparse long white bristles ; mesoscutum with a rather coarse 

 but shallow and irregular favose sculpture ; mesoscutellum 

 delicately longitudinally shagreenedj pleura faintly granulate. 

 Greneral colour black, shining; antennal bulla, pedicel, and 

 first funicle-joint and petioles of other joints, tegulse, all legs 

 including coxse, and a broad triangular basal abdominal spot, 

 honey-yellow ; wings perfectly hyaline, veins slightly yellowish. 



Described from six specimens, Balthazar, Mount Gay estate, 

 and St, John's River — two in a cocoa orchard, two on foliage in 

 second-growth woods, one in house on window, and one swept 

 from herbage in open weedy spot. 



