or THE ISLAND OP ST. VINCENT. 163 



head and thorax together, the base beneath produced forward 

 into a compressed triangular process that extends to the middle 

 coxse ; hypopygial valves prominent, ploughshare-shaped. 



Hob. St. Yiucent. 



Described from two female specimens. 



Catolaccus, ThoQuson. 

 Table of Species. 



Bright golden green, without scattered white hairs. 



Legs orange-yellow to yellowish white, the femora 



with a small dusky cloud toward base ; abdomen 



pointed ovate, longer than head and thorax 



combined, metallic green. $ . 



S with the venter and a spot on dorsum near the 



base whitish C. pallipes, sp. n. 



Bronze-green to aeneous black or bluish green, 

 rarely bright green. 

 Species with scattered white hairs. 



Legs honey-yellow or pallid; the- coxae and 

 femora, except tips, metallic. 

 $ abdomen pointed ovate, much longer than 



the head and thorax together. 

 (S abdomen ovate, not longer than the 



thorax, with a large white spot at base. C. vulgaris, sp. n. 

 Species bare, without the scattered white hairs. 

 Legs, except coxte, pallid or whitish ; abdo- 

 men pointed ovate, longer than head and 

 thorax united. $ (?) C. helice, Walk. 



Catolaccus pallipes, sp. n. 



$ . Length 2*5 millim. Bright golden green, confluently 

 punctate, without the scattered white hairs ; scape and legs 

 orange-yellow or yellowish white, the coxse, except at tips, 

 usually metallic, the femora dusky toward base ; flagellum brown. 

 Punicle 6-jointed, the first joint twice as long as thick, the 

 following very gradually subequal and slightly wideoed, the last 

 being a little wider than long ; club fusiform, 3-jointed, a little 

 Tvider than the last funiele-joint. Collar short, transverse, as 

 wide as the mesonotum. Mesonotum wider than long, with the 

 parapsidal furrows distinct anteriorly for two thirds its length, 

 converging behind. Scutelltim transversely divided by an im- 

 pressed line before its tip. "Wings hyaline, the tegulae and 

 venation pallid or yellowish ; marginal vein about half the length 



