OF THE ISLAND OF ST. VHSTCEJST. 103 



yellowish white ; middle and hind femora with merely a median 

 band of slightly metallic dark brown. 

 Described from one male specimen. 



Elasmus maculatus, sp. n. 



2 • Length 2"2 millim. ; expanse 3'7 millim. ; greatest width 

 of fore wing 0*44 millim. Eace and head with close, deep, rather 

 large round punctures, almost thimble-like ; first tarsal joint of 

 fore legs one third as long as tibia ; middle tibial spur half as long 

 as first tarsal joint ; dark brown lines on dorsum of hind tibiae 

 forming no closed cells, but a continuous series of loops resem- 

 bling three antique figures 5 superimposed. Greneral colour dark 

 metallic greenish-blue ; antennae light brown, scape entirely 

 yellow ; head and face yellow, except a large round spot of which 

 the anterior ocellus is practically the centre and which reaches 

 over the vertex and nearly to the eyes on either side ; yellow 

 scutellar spot large, together with the postscutellum nearly 

 equalling the dark portion of the scutellum in length ; tegulae 

 light brown ; sides and venter of abdomen reddish yellow, except 

 at base and tip ; all legs, including front and middle coxae, 

 yellowish white with a translucent effect; lower half of hind 

 coxae concolorous wdth femora, upper half metallic ; wing-veins 

 dark brown. In other respects resembles ^. levifrons. 



Described from seven female specimens. 



Elasmtjs helvus, sp. n. 



$ . Length 1"6 millim. ; expanse 3*4 millim. ; greatest width 

 of fore wing 0'39 millim. Pace and vertex punctured as in 

 JE. maculatus ; first tarsal joint one fourth as long as tibia ; dark 

 brown lines on hind tibiae as in E. rngosus ; middle tibial spur 

 about one third as long as first tarsal joint. Greneral colour 

 honey-yellow; all of head, pronotum, lateral angles of meso- 

 scutum, scuto-scutellar furrow of mesonotum, upper half of hind 

 coxae, and last two joints of abdomen metallic blue-green ; middle 

 and hind femora edged above by a narrow black line ; antennae 

 brownish above, yellow below. "Wing-veins dark brown, disk of 

 fore wings slightly infuscated ; stigmal vein very plain, straight, 

 and not knobbed, running obliquely into the disk for a distance 

 equal to about one sixth the width of the wing at that point ; 

 a delicate circular fuscous patch just below stigma. In other 

 respects resembles JE. levifrons. 



Described from one female specimen. 



