162 ME. "W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PARASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



S . Length 1*1 millim. Head purplisli ; thorax metallic gold- 

 green ; scape, pedicel, legs, and base of abdomen pale yellowish 

 or white ; flagellum very long, filiform, pilose, black ; the funicle- 

 joints all long, from three to four times as long as thick ; abdomen 

 clavate, otherwise as in the female. 



Sab. St. Vincent. 



Described from one male and two female specimens. 



CHEYSOaLTPHE ALBIPES, Sp. n. 



$ . Length 1'8 mUlim. Grolden green, scaly-punctate ; scape, 

 pedicel, tegulae, and legs white, the coxae with a greenish spot at 

 base; flagellum brown, pubescent, the funicle-joints a little 

 longer than thick; abdomen conic- ovate, metallic or cupreous, 

 except along the venter, the latter triangularly carinated at the 

 middle, white. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the venation pale ; the 

 marginal vein two thirds the length of the submarginal, the 

 stigmal a little longer than half the length of the postmarginal. 



cJ. Length I'l millim. Difi'ers from the female only as 

 follows: — Plagellum subclavate, pilose, the pedicel larger than 

 the first f unicle-joint, the latter smaller than the following joints ; 

 legs white, with the hind coxae metallic and the anterior and 

 middle coxae with a spot at base ; while the abdomen is clavate, 

 metallic, rarely showing a slight pale spot at base. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from one female and two male specimens. 



GrLTPHE, Walker. 



Gl/TPHE PTTNCTATA, Sp. U. 



$ , Length 2 millim. Blue-black, moderately confluently 

 punctate, the head and disk of thorax with a faint aeneous or 

 metallic tinge ; scape, trochanters, tips of femora, and the tibiae 

 and the tarsi honey or brownish yellow ; flagellum brown, sub- 

 clavate, the funicle-jomts longer than thick, club a little thicker 

 than the funicle, 3-jointed. Head very little wider than the 

 thorax. Left mandible ^-dentate. Thorax subovoid, the collar 

 exceedingly short, visible from above as a transverse line ; meso- 

 notum wider than long, with the parapsidal furrows indicated 

 only anteriorly ; metathorax very short. "Wings hyaline, the 

 tegulae and venation pale brownish, the marginal vein long, 

 nearly as long as the submarginal, postmarginal less than half 

 the length of marginal, or one half longer than the stigmal, the 

 latter clavate. Abdomen elongate, compressed, longer than the 



