62 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PAEASTTIC HTMENOPTEEA 



wMcTi is the widest part. Eyes large, oral, convex. Cheeks 

 distinctly margined, the lower portion finely, closely punctate. 

 Pace smooth, with two impressed lines that start between the 

 base of the antennae and the eye and extend into the lateral 

 sutures of the clypeus ; there is also a grooved line separating the 

 cheeks from the face. Antennae 13-jointed, submoniliform, as 

 long as the body, the joints decreasing in length toward the 

 tips. Thorax with two furrows that start from the anterior 

 angles of the mesonotum and converge and extend back to the 

 base of the scutellum, forming a long wedge-shaped carina ; these 

 lines are not deeply impressed and are quite difierent from those 

 in my genus Eucoilidea. Collar visible above as a sharp carina. 

 Pronotum slightly impressed and finely aciculated or striated at 

 sides. Mesopleura smooth, highly polished, except a depression 

 and some striae just beneath the tegulse ; it is separated from the 

 mesopectus by a straight line, and again divided at its basal one- 

 third by an impressed line running parallel with the mesopectal 

 suture. Metapleura scratched. Scutellum deeply foveated at 

 base ; its cup large, elliptical, with an elliptical central depres- 

 sion, surrounded by a submarginal punctate line ; the sides of 

 the cup finely, closely punctate. Metathorax short, depressed 

 at the middle, with a central keel and rather prominent posterior 

 lateral angles. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the venation yel- 

 lowish ; the marginal cell is large and open along the margin, 

 the second abscissa of radius slightly curved and double the 

 length of the first. Abdomen polished black, slightly piceous 

 along the venter, slightly compressed, its tip abruptly truncate, 

 the tip of the hypopygium visible. 



Sah. St. Yincent. 



Described from three female specimens. 



Etjcoilidea, Ashm. 



Etjcoilidea canadensis, Ashm. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vol. xiv. 

 p. 154 (1887). 



Sah. Canada ; St. Yincent. 



Eour specimens are in the collection that cannot be distin- 

 guished from the type originally described from Canada. Three 

 other specimens difiier in having the legs entirely reddish yellow ; 

 while the four specimens have the coxae and base of femora 

 black. 



