170 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PABASITIO HTMENOPTEEA 



^neous black ; second abdominal segment much 



longer than the following segments united. 



Female with the funicle-joints 2 and 3 mo- 



niliform H. nigrocBneus, sp. n. 



4. Metallic, bronze or subcupreous. 



Legs and scape white ; flagellum in female 

 pale brown or yellowish, in male brown- 

 black. 

 Abdomen conically produced, longer than the 

 head and thorax united, the second seg- 

 ment the longest, but its length only 

 about one third as long as the following 

 segments united. 

 Female with the funicle-joints long ; male 

 with the funicle-joints longer than 

 wide, hairy H. productus, sp. n. 



HOLCOPELTE PETIOLATUS, Sp. 11. 



c? 2 • Length 1*5 to 2 millim. Blue-black to cupreous, rarely 

 •without a metallic tinge on head and thorax above, the thorax 

 scaly-punctate ; in female the scape and legs, including coxae, 

 white ; in male the coxae usually black : flagellum black. Head 

 wider than the thorax ; eyes large, hairy ; f unicle 4-jointed 

 in both sexes, in the female the joints are long, subpedunculate, 

 bairy, in male distinctly pedunculate, with longer hairs. Pro- 

 notum conical, much narrower than the mesonotum ; scutellum 

 with a median groove ; metathorax produced into a neck at apex. 

 "Wings hyaline, fringed, the marginal vein very long, more than 

 twice the length of the submarginal, postmarginal scarcely deve- 

 loped, stigmal very short. Abdomen with a long petiole ; in the 

 female with the body produced at tip as in the Pteromalid genus 

 Isocratus, in male truncate at apex. In both sexes the first 

 body-segment is very long and foveated at base above for the 

 reception of the long petiole. 



Sah. St. Vincent. 



Described from seven male and four female specimens. 



In the shape of the abdomen with its long petiole, the strongly 

 produced neck of the metathorax, and in both sexes having four 

 joints to the funicle, this species is quite distinct from those that 

 follow. In fact, I think these characters entitle it to subgeneric 

 rank. 



HOLCOPELTE METALLICFS, Sp. U. 



£? $ . Length 1*5 to 2 millim. - Metallic greenish ; antennae, 



