182 MR, W. H. ASHMEAD OK THE PARASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



havino; no median furrow on the mesoscutum, a cliaracter peculiar 

 to the genera Geranisus, Walk., Baryseapus, Forst., Melittohia, 

 Westw., and Girrospilus, "Westw. ; but Ceranisus and Bary- 

 seapus have the scape greatly thickened or dilated, in Melit' 

 iobia the female has a conieally produced collar and eight-jointed 

 antennge, the male being subapterous witb dilated and twisted 

 antennae and subobsolete eyes, while Girrospilus has but seven- 

 jointed antennae. 



The two species placed here, from St. Vincent, may be thus 

 distinguished : — 



Smooth, impimctate, metallic green or cupreous; 

 abdomen conieally produced. 



Legs, except hind coxae, white T. cupreus, sp. n. 



Scaly-punctate, dull bronzy-brown or bronze-green ; 

 abdomen cylindrical, conieally pointed. 

 Coxse and hind femora black, the anterior and 

 middle femora, except tips, dark brown, rest of 

 legs yellow T.femoratus, sp. n. 



Teteastichodes cupbeus, sp. n. 



(S $ . Length variable, from 0*9 to 2 millim. Metallic green 

 or cupreous, smooth, impunctate ; scape and legs yellowish or pale 

 brownisb-yellow ; hind coxse metallic green ; flagellum brown. 

 Abdomen in male ovate or conic-ovate, not or very slightly longer 

 than the thorax, with a yellow blotch at base ; in female conieally 

 produced, a little longer than the head and thorax united, and 

 without the yellow blotch at base. 



Head transverse, with a deep frontal impression ; mandibles 

 piceous or ferruginous ; the anterior ocellus is situated in the 

 frontal impression, the lateral ocelli being as near to the margin 

 of the eye as to the frontal ocellus. Thorax ovate, the collar 

 rounded anteriorly, the mesonotum slightly longer than wide, the 

 middle lobe being longer than wide along the anterior margin ; 

 scutellum convex, w^ith two furrows ; metathorax smooth. "Wings 

 hyaline, pubescent, the cilia short, the venation pallid. Antennae 

 in female subclavate, pubescent, the funicle-joints being not 

 more than twice as long as wide ; club a little stouter, 3-jointed : 

 in male filiform, pilose, the funicle-joints at least three times (or 

 slightly more) as long as wide. 



Hob. St. Vincent. 



Described from 10 male and 24 female specimens. 



