or THE ISLAND OS ST. VINCENT. 171 



eoxsB, and femora, except tips, metallic, the rest of the legs honey- 

 jellow or whitish ; anterior legs in male usually wholly honey- 

 yellow. Frons and face strongly punctate ; thorax scaly. 



In the female the flagellum is subclavate, with a 3-jointed 

 funicle, the first joint the longest, the following subequal, all 

 oblong ; abdomen pointed ovate, as long as, or a little longer than, 

 the thorax, the second segment the longest, about as long as the 

 following segments united ; segments 7 and 8 are a little longer 

 than any of the others except the second ; the petiole is only a 

 little longer than wide. 



In the male the flagellum is filiform-moniliform, the joints sub- 

 pedicellate, very little longer than thick ; abdomen oval, scarcely 

 half the length of the thorax, the apex usually truncate, from 

 the apical segments being retracted within the large second seg- 

 ment; the petiole is longer than in the female. 



Sab. St. Vincent. 



Described from 6 male and 14 female specimens. 



HOLCOPELTE NIGEOCYANEUS, Sp. n. 



(S 2 • Length 1 to 2 raillim. Blue-black, rarely with a slight 

 seneous tinge, scaly-punctate ; trochanters, tips of femora or 

 knees, and the tibiae and tarsi pale yellowish or white ; sometimes 

 in the female the anterior legs, except coxae, are white, while in 

 the male all the legs, except the coxae and the posterior femora, 

 are white, although sometimes in this sex the tibiae are dusky. 



In the female the flagellum is clavate or subclavate, with 

 the 2nd and 3rd funicle-joints trans verse-monilif or m ; abdomen 

 ovate, not quite as long as the thorax, the petiole not or scarcely 

 longer than wide, the second segment usually as long as, or a little 

 longer than, the following segments united. 



In the male the flagellum is filiform, hairy, the funicle-joints 

 oblong-moniliform, subpedicellate. 



Sah. St. Vincent. 



Described from many specimens, 



HOLCOPELTE CTJPEEtrS, Sp. n. 



d $ . Length 1*5 to 2 millim. Cupreous ; scape and legs, 

 except coxae, white ; flagellum black ; punctation scaly. 



In the female the flagellum is filiform, pilose, the funicle- 

 joints long, subpedicellate ; abdomen ovate, pointed at apex, the 

 petiole short, the second segment the longest but shorter than 

 the following segments united. 



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