82 ME. L. O. HOWAED ON" THE PAEASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



broad as pedicel and twice as Jong as broad. Tbe other fanicle- 

 joints are stout, cylindrical, and all of tbe same diameter ; joint 1 

 is longest, and the rest diminish gradually in length to 7. The 

 club is rounded at tip, and is slightly longer than joint 7 of 

 funicle. The generic description states that the hind femora are 

 unarmed, but the figure (pi. iv. fig. 25) shows a series of short, 

 close, and extremely minute teeth or bristles, 20 in number, on 

 the outer half of the lower border. This is substantially the 

 case with the St. Vincent specimens. The projections are ex- 

 ceedingly minute teeth about 35 in number. 



Fabricius's Chalcis punctigera has not, I believe, been re- 

 described ; hence we may safely apply the name to this form, since 

 the few words of description fit sufficiently well. 



5 . Length 3'3 millim. ; expanse 5*8 millim. Head and 

 thorax with rather close, large, roundish punctures, and with 

 sparse light yellow pile ; segments 3, 4, 5, and 6, and pygidium 

 of abdomen with close white pile ; pygidium with a slight central 

 longitudinal dorsal carina; metascutellum with two median lon- 

 gitudinal parallel carinas ; attached to each of these at top and 

 bottom is an outwardly curved bow-shaped carina ; rest of meta- 

 notum reticulate ; fimbria sparse, silvery white ; basal constricted 

 half of first abdominal segment longitudinally striate, with a 

 more marked central longitudinal carina. Colour black ; pedicel 

 and funicle-joints 1-4 of antenna dark honey-yellow ; tegulse 

 brown ; all trochanters and tarsi honey-yellow ; base and tip of 

 fore tibise, all of middle femora and tibise, except median dark 

 band on each and extreme tips of hind tibise, honey-yellow. 

 Wing-veins dark brown, nearly black; fore wings with two 

 irregular transverse fuscous patches, the proximal one much 

 darker and arising from the costal border coincident with 

 the marginal vein, broadening slightly and becoming lighter 

 towards anal margin and interrupted below middle by a hyaline 

 streak (the spurious cubital nervure); the distal one arises 

 from costal margin halfway between stigma and apex, gradually 

 widens, and merges proximally with proximal band costad of 

 the cubital hyaline streak which forms the anal limit of this 

 outer band. 



S . Length and expanse slightly less on the average. Stri- 

 ation of base of abdomen more pronounced, forming five well- 

 marked longitudinal caringe united at anterior ends ; antennae 



