92 ME. L. O. HOWAED ON THE PAEASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



metallic greenish blue ; dorsal surface of head golden-green f 

 mesoscutellum copper-coloured ; antenna very dark brown, 

 scape slightly metallic ; all legs black or slightly metallic, middle 

 and hind tarsi dirty white with terminal joint brown, fore tarsi 

 light brown. 



Described from four female specimens, two labelled " Leeward 

 side." One of these specimens lacks the apical pair of hyaline 

 spots on the wing, but should not be separated. 



CoMTS, Forster. 



COMTS BICOLOE, 



Comys bicolor, Howard, Report of the Entomologist, Annual Report 

 Department of Agriculture, 1880, p. 362. 



Parasitic on the cosmopolitan Leeanium hesperidum and other 

 congeneric species in the United States. 



Two female specimens, St. Vincent. 



Leptomastis, Forster. 



Leptomastix dactteopii. 



Leptomastix dactylopii, Howard, Bulletin 5, Division of Entomology ^ 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture {Washington, 1885), pp. 23, 24. 

 District of Columbia. One male, St. Vincent. 



CoPiDOSOMA, Batzeburg. 



COPIDOSOMA diveesicoenis, sp. n. 



$ . Length 1'4 millim. ; expanse 2*6 millim. ; greatest width 

 of fore wing 0"37 millim. Antennal club flattened dorso-ventrally, 

 rather longer than funicle-joints 5 and 6 together, and but slightly 

 wider than joint 6, slightly rounded at apex ; first funicle-joint 

 nearly twice as long as pedicel ; joint 2 of funicle slightly longer 

 than pedicel ; joints 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 subequal in length and 

 width. Punctation of head and thorax as usual. Marginal vein 

 of fore wings as long as stigmal. Ovipositor not extruded. 

 Colour black, without metallic reflections ; antennal scape brown, 

 with a whitish band at tip ; pedicel, joints 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of 

 funicle, and base of club black ; joint 2 of funicle and rest of 

 club silvery -white ; tegulse honey -yellow at tips, otherwise black ; 

 all coxse black ; fore and middle femora black at base, honey- 

 yellow beyond ; hind femora black nearly to the honey-yellow tip ; 

 all tibiae and tarsi very light honey-yellow, the underside of the 

 middle tarsi appearing brownish from the numerous brown spines. 



Described from two male specimens (216 and 207). 



