64 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PARASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



cup of scutellum elliptic, its disk smooth, with a 

 small fovea posteriorly and about six submarginal 



punctures anteriorly A. 



Head and abdomen black, the thorax piceous. 



Third antennal joint not longer than the fourth, the 

 joints beyond the fourth very slightly longer and 

 thicker, about thrice as long as thick; cup of 



scutellum as in pallida A. 



2 Metathorax and legs yellowish. 



Third antennal joint much longer than the fourth, 

 thickened and curved, the joints beyond the fourth 

 more than thrice as long as thick ; cup of scutellum 

 very small A. 



Aglaotoma pallida, sp. n. 



c? 2 • Length If millim. Pale brown, polisTied, tlie occiput, 

 in the female, black. Face with some fine longitudinal lines along 

 the orbits. Antennge in female 13-jointed, as long as the body, 

 very slightly and gradually thickened toward tips, the joints 

 long, cylindric ; the first joint of funicle is scarcely longer than the 

 second: in male longer than the body, filiform, the joints all 

 long, cylindric ; the first joint of funicle is slightly longer than the 

 second and slightly bent, the following are a little contracted at 

 base and apes and all finely fluted. Thorax smooth, without 

 furrows, the prothorax visible above as a sharp, transverse 

 carina. Cup of scutellum in male elliptical, its dorsum with a 

 submarginal row of punctures and a fovea behind ; laterally it is 

 closely punctulate : in the female the cup is very small, narrowed, 

 and extends into a carina anteriorly. Mesopleura polished, the 

 epimera separated, in the male smooth, in the female finely, 

 longitudinally aciculated. Metapleura smooth, bounded by a 

 carina posteriorly. Metathorax short, with lateral carinse and 

 slightly pubescent. Wings hyaline, fringed, the venation brown, 

 the marginal cell closed ; the second abscissa of the radius is 

 only about one fifth the length of the first. Abdomen highly 

 polished, in male dark brown above, pale along the venter, with a 

 slight hairy girdle at base. 



Sab. St. Yincent. 



Described from two male and one female specimen. 



The female of this species agrees exactly with Forster's defini- 

 tion of the genus, but the male disagrees in not having the first 

 joint of funicle " bermassig verlaogert." 



