OP THE ISLAND OF ST. YINCENT. 177 



Closteeocertjs leucopus, sp. n. 



c? ? . Length 0-8 to 0-9 millim. Blue-black, impunctured, the 

 ecutellum and base o£ abdomen more distinctly blue; sometimes 

 .with an aeneous tinge ; tarsi white. Wings hyaline, ciliated. 

 Abdomen in female pointed ovate, as long as the head and thorax 

 united ; in male oblong, narrowed towards base, and not longer 

 than the thorax. Antennae short, fusiform, pilose. 



Hob. St. Yincent. 



Described from one female and four male specimens. 



Closteeoceeus aueiceps, sp. n. 



d . Length 0'8 millim. Blue-black, the scutellum asneous, the 

 head above metallic green or gold-greeu ; legs pale or white, the 

 coxae aeneous, the femora and tibiae dusky at the middle. "Wings 

 •clear hyaline, fringed. Abdomen oval, shorter than the thorax, 

 with no pale spot at base. 



Described from a single male specimen. 



Closteeoceeus albipes, sp. n. 



S . Length O'S millim. ^ueous black, the metathorax and 

 abdomen bluish, the latter with a large white spot at base ; collar 

 anteriorly with a violet tinge ; legs white, with only the coxae 

 dusky basally. "Wings hyaline, pubescent. Antennae 8-jointed, 

 flattened, brown, pubescent, the third fanicle-joint the longest. 



Hah. St. Yincent. 



Described from two male specimens. 



Chrtsochaeodes, gen. nov. 



Allied to Chrysocharis, Forster, and Derosfenus, West wood, 

 but separate at once from both by its antennal characters. In 

 both sexes the antennae are 7-jointed, not 8- or 9-jointed; in the 

 female they are subclavate, pubescent, with a 2-joiuted funicle 

 and a 3-jointed club ; in the male the funicle is 3-jointed, each joint 

 contracted at apex into a pedicel, while the base or thickened part 

 is furnished with a whorl of long hairs ; club only 2-jointed. 

 The head is rather large, transverse, with a frontal impression 

 pronotum conical ; metathorax somewhat lengthened ; the abdo- 

 men is oval, much shorter than the thorax, distinctly petiolated, 

 and with the second segment the longest, twice as long as the 

 third. 



