120 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD OK THE PARASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



with fuscous tingeings in the sutures; antennae dusty toward 

 tips ; legs honey-yellow. Head quadrate, smooth, the vertex 

 transversely aciculated. Thorax shagreened, narrowed in front ; 

 the collar produced, striated at sides ; parapsidal furrows distinct, 

 the middle lobe rugose posteriorly ; scutellum smooth, with a 

 Granulated furrow across the base ; pleura and metathorax rugose, 

 the latter not areolated. Wings greyish-hyaline, strongly iri- 

 descent, the venation brown, the costa basally yellow, the trans- 

 verse nervures of the second and third submarginal cells sub- 

 obsolete. Abdomen longer than the head and thorax together, 

 the base of third and fourth segments and the apex of the fifth 

 and sixth embrowned ; the second segment is longer than the 

 first, with a transverse impressed line at about its middle that 

 curves basally at the sides, and another straight subapical trans- 

 verse line ; first segment and the second, except near the apex, 

 striated, the following segments, except the last two, microsco- 

 pically punctate. 



Hob. St. Vincent, leeward side. 



Described from a single specimen. 



Heterospilus figrescens, sp. n. 



$ . Length 2| millim. ; ovipositor shorter than the abdomen. 

 Black; the head reddish brown, with transverse aciculations on 

 the vertex ; antennae 24-jointed, brown, the two basal joints 

 white. Thorax shagreened, opaque ; scutellum smooth, shining, 

 with a transverse crenulated furrow at base ; pleura shagreened ; 

 metathorax rugose, areolated.. "Wings subfuscous. Abdomen 

 as long as the head and thorax together, the second segment 

 shorter than the first, with a depression at the middle ; first 

 segment and the second, except the apical one-third, striated, 

 the following segments smooth, polished, the third with a trans- 

 verse suture, the bottom of which is faintly aciculated. 



Sal. St. Vincent. 



Described from a single specimen, taken at 1500 feet altitude. 



Heterospiltjs tarie&attjs, sp. n. 



cJ $ . Length 2 to 3| millim. ; ovipositor about as long as the 

 abdomen. Pale ferruginous to luteous, sutures of thorax, meta- 

 thorax, and upper portion of four or five basal abdominal 

 segments black ; antennae pale brown ; legs white. Head with 

 faint transverse aciculations on the vertex. Thorax very faintly 

 shagreened, the parapsidal furrows distinct, the middle lobe 



