80 ME. L. O. HOWAED ON THE PARASITIC HYMETlfOPTEEA 



hind femora with a single small yellow spot above, and a larger 

 one just at knee. Wings hyaline, veins dark brown, the white 

 interruption at juncture of submarginal with marginal very 

 distinct. 



Described from twenty male and female specimens from 

 St. Vincent. Comes nearest to S. torvina (Cresson). 



SpILOCHALCIS MISTtTEATFS, Sp. n. 



Length 2*5 millim. ; expanse d7 millim. Hind femora with 

 12 teeth below ; petiole of abdomen one half as long as hind 

 coxa, spur at base below long and slender ; terebra exserted, one 

 third as long as abdomen. Antennae yellow, brownish at tip ; 

 head yellow, occiput dark brown, face with two faint brownish 

 longitudinal stripes, wider above than below ; prothorax entirely 

 yellow ; mesoscutum brown, rather bronzy, with two broad 

 yellow stripes down the mesial margin of the parapsidal sutures ; 

 mesoscutellum yellow, with a large central brown spot, scapulae 

 brown ; metanotum and petiole yellow ; meso- and metapleura 

 and mesosternum dark brown, nearly black ; abdomen light brown, 

 darker at sutures, with a complete yellow band on anterior border 

 of third segment ; pygidium black at tip ; all legs light yellow, 

 hind coxse with a black spot above at base, and hind femora with 

 a brownish shade on outer basal half and another at curve of 

 tip ; teeth of hind femora black. "Wings hyaline, veins dark 

 brown. 



Described from three female specimens. St. Vincent. 



Chalcis, JFabricius. 



Chalcis annul attts. 



Chalcis annulatus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii. pp. 197-9 ; Systema Pieza- 

 torum, p. 167. 



Length variable, the largest specimens measuring 6 millim,, 

 and the smallest 3 millim. ; expanse of largest specimens from 9 

 to 10 millim. Cheeks very delicately punctured ; genal sulcus 

 sharp and deep ; clypeus with a few sparse round punctures, 

 and with a double impressed line just below its juncture with the 

 epicranium ; above this line is a single transverse row of round 

 punctures; vertex and dorsum of thorax closely and rather 

 coarsely punctate, the punctation of metanotum being almost 

 reticulate from its coarseness ; abdomen smooth ; all body except 



