84 ME. L. O. HOWABD OK THE PARASITIC HTMENOPTBBA. 



Subfamily Euchaein^. 

 Kapala, Cameron. 



Kapala puecata. 



Eucharis furcata, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 158. 



Eucharis flabellata, Fabr. I. c. ; Walker, Entomologist, i. pi. P. fig. 2. 



Chirocerus furcatus, JBrulle, Nat. Hist, des Ins., Hym. iv. p. 571, t. 38. 

 fig. 5. 



Thoracantha furcata, Hal. Entomologist, i. pi. P. fig. 2. 



Kapala furcata, Cameron, Biol. Centr.~Am., Hym. i. pi. v. fig. 17. 

 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, South America. 



One male and three females of this species were taten by 

 Mr. Smith. One of the females has an ant clasped in her jaws. 

 This is, perhaps, significant in view of the supposed parasitism 

 upon ants of members of this group. 



OeasejVIA, Cameron. 



Oeasema steamineipes. 



Orasema stramineipes, Cameron, Biol. Centr.-Am., Hym. i. p. 105, pi. v. 

 fig. 20. 



Three specimens, 1 male and 2 female, from St. Vincent. 



Oeasema mintjtissima, sp. n. 



$ . Length I'l millim. ; expanse 2"8 millim. ; greatest width 

 of fore wing 0'46 millim. Front and vertex delicately rugulose 5 

 face finely shagreened, with a curved suture each side of facial 

 impression; me sonotum rather strongly but finely granulate; 

 metanotum smooth, with a median longitudinal carina and a 

 lateral somewhat oblique suture. Greneral colour dark metallic 

 greenish blue ; scape of antennae light straw-yellow, flagellum 

 dusky ; middle coxse metallic, fore and hind coxge fuscous ; fore 

 femora light brown, middle and hind femora and all tibiae and 

 tarsi light straw-yellow ; wing- veins very light, tegulse yellowish. 



S • Dimensions about the same, the long petiole compensating 

 for the shorter abdomen. Face more closely shagreened, curved 

 sutures nearly obsolete ; mesonotum more strongly granulate ; 

 metanotum delicately shagreened, central carina very faint. 

 Flagellum of antenna darker than in female ; all legs stramineous 

 except coxae, which are metallic at base and yellowish at tip. 



Described from 17 females, 5 males. St. Vincent. 



