158 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PAEASITIC HTMEIfOPTEEA 



PiCEOscTTTTS, Thomsou. 



PiCEOSCTTTJS ITIGEOCTAKEFS, Sp. n. 



2 • Length 1"1 millim. Blue-black, shagreened ; scape pale j, 

 flagellum clavate, brown-black, pubescent ; troclianters, knees,, 

 tips of tibiae and tarsi yellowish white. Head transverse, the 

 occiput concave, the vertex rather sharp witb the frons impressed. 

 Antennae inserted just above the cljpeus ; the flagellum filiform, 

 with the joints a little longer than thick, the first shorter than 

 the second; club 3-jointed, fusiform, much stouter than tbe 

 funicle. Thorax subovoid, the collar distinct but short, trans- 

 verse, the parapsidal furrows indicated only anteriorly; the 

 scutellum longer than wide, with a straight impressed line at the 

 sides ; metathorax very short. Wings and venation hyaliue, or 

 the latter pallid yellowish ; tegulse yellow ; the marginal vein 

 long, only a little shorter than the submarginal, the postmargiual 

 no longer than the stigmal. Abdomen acute-ovate, produced 

 into a point at apex, the venter carinate or boat-shaped. 



JIah. St. Vincent. 



Described from a single specimen. 



EoPTEOCEEFS, Batzeburg. 



EOPTEOCEETJS ATJEATUS, Sp. n. 



$ . Length 2 millim. Golden green, confluently punctate^ 

 the pleura blue-green ; scape, pedicel and legs, including coxae, 

 orange-yellow. Head transverse, a little wider than th.e thorax, 

 the vertex convex, the face with a slight antennal furrow. An- 

 tennae inserted on the middle of the face, the scape cylindrical^ 

 extendiag to the ocelli ; flagellum broken off at the pedicel. 

 Pronotum distinct from above, a little dilated at the angles y 

 parapsidal furrows entire, strongly converging toward the scu- 

 tellum, the middle lobe anteriorly fully as wide as long, posteriorly 

 scarcely one third as wide as anteriorly ; axillae distinctly sepa- 

 rated, triangular, separated from the parapsides by a transverse 

 grooved line on a line with the groove at base of scutellum, there- 

 fore not produced into the field of the parapsides; sides of 

 scutellum oblique. Wiags hyaline; the tegulae a-nd venation 

 yellow, the marginal vein scarcely longer than the stigmal, the 

 latter long, oblique, ending in a small stigma, the postmargiual 

 vein slender, but as long as the marginal. Abdomen subsessile, 

 conic-ovate, one third longer than head and thorax united 

 metallic green, with prominent black ovipositor ; segments 2, 4i, 



