CHALCIDID^ OP THE ISLAND OP GEENADA. 165 



ovipositor light brown ; antennae black, last funicle-joint white, 

 club brown. 



One female, Balthazar, April 2, on trailing plant on sea-shore« 

 Probably parasitic on some lepidopterous leaf-miner. 



Subfamily Entedoninje. 



Omphale, Holiday, 



Omphale vaeicoloe. 



Omphale varicolor, Ashmead, Linn. Journ., Zool. xxv. p. 168. St. 

 Vincent. 



Eighteen males and females, Mirabeau, Chantilly, and Mount 

 Gay estates, Balthazar, and St. George's, March 1 to April 7, 250 

 to 400 feet, at light at night, in house on window, and swept 

 from herbage under varying conditions. 



Omphale steiata, sp. n. 



§ . Length 2'3 mm. ; expanse 3*5 mm. Antennae as with 

 preceding species ; mesonotum closely and finely punctate ; 

 metanotum smooth ; abdomen finely sbagreened ; face faintly 

 shagreened, with many short white bristles below ; facial depres- 

 sion strong, antennal carina distinct, genal sulcus indicated 

 faintly at border of eye ; occiput delicately transversely aciculate. 

 Golour metallic blue-green, the green predominating on dorsum 

 of thorax and basal segments of abdomen, the blue on head, 

 underside of body, and terminal three-fourths of abdomen; disc 

 of mesoscutum with light green longitudinal stripe down centre 

 bordered on each side by a darker and broader stripe, lighter 

 iigain beyond ; faint indication of similar marking on mesoscu- 

 tellum ; parapsides of mesoscutum also faintly striped in the 

 same way ; scape of antennae brown ; tips of tibiae and all tarsi, 

 except terminal joints, yellowish white; wings hyaline, veins 

 nearly white. 



S . Extremely variable in size and colour. The stripe on 

 mesoscutellum more pronounced than in female ; hairs on flagellar 

 joints very long, those on first funicle-joint nearly one-third the 

 length of entire flagellum. Genal sulcus distinct, complete. 



Described from seventeen male and female specimens, Mira- 

 heSiXi, Chantilly, and Lake Antoine estates, Balthazar, Grand Etang, 

 March 2 to April 7, 250 feet, taken under varying conditions. 



