152 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD OST THE PAEASITIC HTMENOPTERA. 



pubescent; the first funicle-joint is the longest, the following 

 joints being gradually subequal, the last scarcely longer than wide, 

 while all are rounded at base and apex ; club S-jointed. "Wings 

 hyaline, the tegulse small, yellowish, the venation pallid, the 

 marginal vein about one and a half times as long as the stigmal. 

 Abdomen elongate conic, highly polished, pubescent at apex, as 

 long as the head and thorax combined ; the segments unequal in 

 length, the 1st and 3rd body-segments almost equal, the 2nd 

 slightly shorter, the 4th as long as all the preceding united, 

 the 5th a little shorter than the 3rd, the 6th one half longer 

 than the 5th. 



The male difiers from the female as follows : — The funicle- 

 joints are strongly pedicellate at apex, verticilately pilose, the 

 scape being scarcely as long as the small pedicel and first funicle- 

 joint united ; body of abdomen ovate, subcompressed, the 3rd 

 segment being a little longer than 1 and 2 united, 4 and 5 sub- 

 equal, the 5th the longer. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from two females and one male. 



Subfamily Toeyminje. 

 Calyostichtjs, Mayr. 



Caltostichus aueattjs, sp. n. 



S . Length 1*8 millim. Grol den-green, shagreened, and with 

 a few scattered punctures over the surface, sparsely pubescent ; 

 antennae and legs pale brownish yellow. Abdomen broadly oval, 

 much depressed or very flat, pale yellowish, except a dusky spot 

 at base and apex, the segments nearly of an equal length, the 

 first segment foveated at base by the short thick petiole. An- 

 tennse inserted a little below the middle of the face, the scape 

 rather short, not reaching to the ocelli, the pedicel large, stout; 

 funicle- joints increasing in width toward the club, the joints 

 transverse. Thorax rather long ; the pronotum large, tra- 

 pezoidal, longer than the mesonotum ; mesonotum with two 

 distinct furrows ; scutellum longer than wide, convex behind ; 

 axillae separated, convex ; metathorax subquadrate, with a median 

 carina, the metapleura prominent, convex. Wings hyaline, 

 pubescent, the tegulse and venation pale, the marginal vein a little 

 more than twice the length of the stigmal, the latter clavate, 

 oblique, about two thirds the length of the postmarginal. 



