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joint, but slenderer ; entire liead, pro- and mesonotum closely 

 sliagreened ; metanotum smooth, central carina well marked, 

 alse marked by evident carinse ; second tergite of abdomen per- 

 fectly smooth, glistening, other tergites dull, very faintly trans- 

 versely striate. General colour metallic green, with bright 

 golden reflections where punctation is lacking, as on mesopleura 

 and second tergite ; scape and pedicel of antennae metallic, f unicle 

 and club dull brown with very short close pubescence ; tegulae 

 dark brown ; all coxae and femora metallic ; all tibiae and tarsi 

 yellowish, white ; abdomen beyond second segment dull purplish 

 black, ovipositor light brown ; wiugs hyaline, veins brown. 

 Head, pronotum, mesonotum, and abdomen beyond second seg- 

 ment with short whitish pubescence. 



(S . E-esembles female, except that flagellum and club of antennae 

 are nearly black and the veins of fore wing are dark brown. 



Described from nine female aud five male specimens. St, 

 Yincent. 



Erotolepsia, gen. nov. 



5 . Antennae ll-jointed (club 3, funicle 6, pedicel and scape), 

 inserted at clypeal margin ; scape long, slender, reaching nearly 

 to anterior ocellus ; flagellum somewhat longer than scape, sub- 

 clavate ; pedicel long, obconical, straight, as long as first three 

 funicle-joints ; first funicle-joint as broad as long, others subequal 

 in length and increasing very gradually in width ; club bluntly 

 pointed ; facial depression deep, its border sharp and slightly 

 elevated ; eyes naked ; ocelli of moderate size, at angles of an 

 obtuse-angled triangle, the lateral ones tangent to the occipital 

 margin, wbich is slightly rounded. Parapsidal sutures indicated 

 only at anterior margin of mesoseutum ; mesoscutum rather flat ; 

 mesoscutellum slightly elevated, not abruptly declivous ; sub- 

 marginal vein of fore wing reaching costa at nearly one half the 

 wing-length, marginal two-thirds as long as submarginal ; post- 

 marginal and stigmal subequal in length, the latter a trifle the 

 longer, about one fourth as long as marginal ; stigmal curved, 

 club very slight, uncus very short ; metanotum rounded, not 

 carinate, but bears at the middle of its anterior border a stout, 

 sharp, spine-like process, alae separated by delicate sutures ; hind 

 coxae not toothed. Abdomen ovate, very acute at tip, flattened 

 above, well rounded beneath ; second tergite excavated anteriorly 

 and occupying nearly the whole dorsum of abdomen; pygidium 

 as in Serbertia; ovipositor not exserted. 



