OF THE ISLAND OP ST. VINCENT. 85 



Chalcuka, Kirhy. 



ChALCTTEA AMERICANA, Sp. 11. 



$ . Length 2*4 millim. ; expanse 5*2 millim. Pace nearly 

 smootL. below and at margins of eyes, witli very faint interrupted 

 striae and very sparse punctures ; several rather strong longitu- 

 dinal grooves begin at insertion of antennae and extend parallel 

 with, antennal groove nearly to occipital margin ; disk of meso- 

 scutum coarsely reticulate, the cells irregularly pentagonal or 

 hexagonal, lengthening out obliquely on the parapsidal sutures, 

 and becoming longitudinally greatly lengthened on the meso- 

 scutellum, axillae, pleura, and nietanotum ; petiole finely longi- 

 tudinally aciculate ; abdomen smooth, shining. General colour 

 shining black; all legs except coxae nearly white, faintly yellowish, 

 almost translucent ; coxae brown ; antennal scape, pedicel, and 

 the plainly 3-jointed club bright honey-yellow ; the six funicle- 

 j oints brown, joints 5 and 6 somewhat lighter tban the first four. 

 Wings hyaline ; fore wings absolutely devoid of marginal cilia ; 

 wing-veins faintly coloured except stigma, which is brown ; fore 

 wing below stigma with a faint, irregularly rounded, infuscated 

 patch. 



Described from one female specimen. St. Vincent. 



Subfamily Peeilampin^. 

 Peeilatmpus, Latr. 



PEEILAMPrS POLITIFEONS, Sp. n. 



S • Length 1*7 millim. ; expanse 3 millim. Pace smooth, 

 shining ; margin of antennal groove rounded, no carina ; facial 

 grooves below insertion of antennae well marked; transverse 

 furrow between the facial grooves also pronounced ; vertex 

 slightly and sparsely punctate; occiput very plainly transversely 

 striate, the striations parallel with the curve of the occipital 

 margin ; antennae short, clavate, slightly hairy ; dorsum of thorax 

 "coarsely, thickly, but shallowly punctate, but one row of these 

 punctures showing in middle of pronotum, each depression with 

 a slight central elevation, from which arises a short white hair : 

 axillae delicately longitudinally striate ; outer border of parapsidal 

 suture smooth ; tip of mesoscutumnot indented ; metascutellum 

 with a well-marked median longitudinal carina ; nucha plainly 

 transversely striate ; all pleura smooth ; head and thorax with 



