OF THE ISLAND OF ST. YINCENT. 165 



Ptekoma-LUs, Swed. 



Pteeomaltjs efgosoptjnctatus, sp. n. 



6 $ . Length 1-5 to 2'5 millim. Black or blue-black, the disk 

 of mesonotum soraetimea with an aeneous tinge, and sometimes 

 sparsely pubescent; head and thorax somewhat coarsely con- 

 fluently punctate ; face with strise towards the mouth ; scape 

 and sometimes the pedicel and legs, except coxse, pale yellowish ; 

 sometimes all the femora, except tips, black, more rarely with 

 only a brownish blotch ; flagellum brown, the first joint the 

 longest, or twice as long as thick, the following to club subequal, 

 not quite twice as long as thick. Thorax as in Catolaccus 

 pallipes, except the mesonotum has the quadrilateral areas, the 

 neck large and strongly punctate, the scutellum with a cross- 

 furrow before the tip. "Wings hyaline, the tegulae and venation 

 pale, the marginal vein two and a half times as long as the 

 stigmal. Abdomen conic-ovate, much longer than the head and 

 thorax united, metallic or bluish, the segments as in G. vulgaris. 



The male has the same coarse punctuation and agrees in colora- 

 tional detail with the female, but with the following structural 

 differences : — The first and second funicle-joints are equal, a 

 little shorter than the others ; the abdomen is ovate, shorter than 

 the thorax, briefly petiolated, with the dorsum at base usually 

 cupreous, while the legs, as in the female, are variable. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from many specimens of both sexes. 



Subfamily Eulophin^. 

 HoPLOCEBPis, AsJim. 



HoPLOCEEPis ALBiCLAVTTS, Ashm. Proc. Tint. Soc. Wash. vol. i. 

 p. 235. 



Sab. Morida and St. Vincent. 



Of this curious genus, described by the writer from a single 

 female specimen collected in Florida, are two female and five male 

 specimens that cannot be separated specifically from the Ploridian 

 specimen. The male, which was unknown to me when I erected 

 the genus, differs from the female in, having the funicle-joints of 

 antennae round, strongly pedicellated, and with whorls of very 

 long hairs, while the front wings lack the conical tufts of bristles 

 at the origin of the marginal vein. The antennae in the male 

 recall those in the Entedonid genus Lophocomus, Haliday. 



