188 MK. W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PAEASITIO HTMENOPTEEA 



In both, sexes the antennae are short, clavate, 8-jointed 

 (without a ring-joint), pubescent, the joints moniliform, the 

 pedicel being as long as the first two funicle-joints united; 

 club stout, fusiform ; scape slender, subclavate, inserted below the 

 middle of the face, a little below an imaginary line drawn from 

 the base of each eye. Frons deeply impressed; the anterior 

 ocellus situated in the furrow, the lateral ocelli closer to the front 

 ocellus than to the eye-margin. Thorax short, oval or almost 

 round ; the mesonotum about twice as wide as long, with three 

 grooved lines ; the scutellum semicircular, convex, with two 

 grooved lines ; metathorax very short, rounded. Wings broad, 

 well fringed, with the venation as in Tetrastichus. Abdomen ovate^ 

 sessile or subsessile; the first and second body-segments the 

 longest, about equal, the^foUowing shorter. 



Pentastichus xanthopus, sp. n. 



S $ . Length 0*8 to 1 millim. -3ineous black, smooth, im- 

 punctured ; antennge and legs lemon-yellow ; wings hyaline, 

 ciliated ; abdomen ovate in female, pointed at apex, and as long 

 as the head and thorax united ; in male rounded at apex, scarcely 

 as long as the thorax. 



Sah. St. Yincent. 



Described from two male and four female specimens. 



Meport on the Parasitic Cynipidse, part of tlie Braconidse, fhe 

 Ichneumonidse, the Proctotrypidae, and part of the Chalci- 

 didse. — Paet III. By William H. Ashmead. 



Family PEOCTOTETPID^. 



Subfamily Bethtlin^. 



Epteis, Westwood. 



Two species, both males, may be distinguished as follows : — 



Mesonotal furrows distinct. 



Anterior coxae and hind coxae and femora black or 

 piceous, rest of the legs brownish yellow ; scape 

 and pedicel yellow, the pedicel small, rounded ; 

 flagellum brown, the joints at least twice as long 

 as thick E. insularis, sp.n. 



