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twice as long as pedicel, joint 2 equal to 1, 3 shorter; club a 

 little shorter than last two funicle-joints together ; abdomen 

 about as long as thorax, short ovate; mesoscutar furrow faint; 

 niesonotum very faintly aciculate ; abdomen smooth ; wings per- 

 fectly hyaline, veins light brown. Greneral colour black ; antennae 

 dark brown ; face, especially below, tegulae, postscutellura, base 

 of abdomen above, and all legs including coxee, honey-yellow. 



Six females, Balthazar, March 31 to April 15, all but one at 

 1900 feet, on foliage on ground ; remaining one at 300 feet on 

 shady bank of stream. 



Tetrastichus similis, sp. n. 



§ . Length 1'35 mm. ; expanse 2*9 mm. Antennge moderate, 

 scape reaching above top of head ; funicle-joints subequal in 

 length and width, not flattened, each somewhat longer than 

 pedicel ; club not widened, as long as two preceding funicle- 

 joints together ; head and mesonotum faintly shagreeued ; 

 abdomen short, rotund, shorter than thorax ; wings very faintly 

 dusky, veins brown. General colour black, faintly glistening ; 

 flagellum of antennge dark brown, pedicel and scape honey- 

 yellow, tegulae dark brown; all legs honey-yellow, except coxae 

 which are black. 



One female. Grand Etang, 1900 feet, March 31, on foliage on 

 ground. 



Teteastichus longicornis. 



Tetrastichus longicornis, Ashmead, Linn. Journ., Zool. xxv. p. 185. 

 St. Vincent. 



Three females, Mirabeau estate, April 5, 400 feet, about cocoa 

 orchard ; Chantilly estate, April 6, 400 feet, weeds about nutmeg 

 orchard; Balthazar, April 13, 350 feet, second growth on shore of 

 stream. 



Tetrastichus tulgaeis. 



Tetrastichus vulgaris, Ashmead, Linn. Journ., Zool, xxv. p. 185, 

 St. Vincent. 



Pive females, Mirabeau estate, April 5, 400 feet, cocoa orchard ; 

 Chantilly estate, April 6, 400 feet, nutmeg orchard ; Balthazar, 

 April 3 and 7, 250 feet, open weedy places ; Mount Gay estate, 

 April 6, 250 feet, in house on window. 



Tetrastichtts cuproidetjs, sp. n. 



S . Length 1*98 mm. ; expanse 3'5 mm. Antennae nearly as 



