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Mesonotal furrows almost obliterated, with only slight 

 traces anteriorly. 

 Legs, including coxae, rufous, the tarsi paler; an- 

 tennae brown, fuscous or black toward tips ; 

 pedicel more than twice as long as thick, the 

 joints of the flagellum fully thrice as loog as thick, E. incertus, sp. n. 



Epteis insulaeis, sp. n. 



S ■ Length 2| millira. Black, shining, densely and very finely 

 punctulate, covered with a sparse pubescence ; mandibles, scape 

 and pedicel, tegulae and legs, except anterior coxae and the hind 

 coxae, and sometimes the posterior femora, whicli are black or 

 fuscous, brownish yellow. Eyes hairy. The mandibles are 

 curved and rather slender, not broadened at tips, tbe tips trun- 

 cate and with five minute teeth. Antennae 13-jointed, filiform, 

 acuminate towards tips, extending to the middle of the abdomen ; 

 flagellum fuscous, the pedicel very small, rounded, the first 

 flagellar joint a little longer than the second, thrice as long as 

 thick, the following twice as long as thick. The dorsum of the 

 pronotum is trapezoidal, anteriorly and along the sides distinctly 

 margined ; mesonotum longer than the dorsum of the pronotum, 

 with two distinct furrows and a grooved line on the scapulae; 

 Bcutellum with a furrow across the base ; metathorax quadrate, 

 the apex abruptly truncate, the sides and the truncature finely 

 striated; the dorsum is margined along the sides and at apex, 

 with a medial carina extending on to the truncature, its surface 

 very finely transversely striated. Wings subhyaline, pubescent, 

 the nerves brown ; the transverse medial nervure is curved out- 

 wardly. Abdomen scarcely as long as the thorax, black, polished, 

 sparsely pubescent, especially towards the tip ; the third segment 

 is twice as long as the fourth. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from four specimens. 



Epteis inoeetus, sp. n. 



(5 . Length 2| millim. Black, shining, very finely microsco- 

 pically punctate, the surface appearing almost smooth, sparsely 

 pubescent; mandibles, scape and base of flagellum, and legs, 

 including all coxae, brownish yellow. Eyes faintly pubescent or 

 almost bare. The mandibles are closely folded under the over- 

 lapping labrum, and the number of teeth cannot be made out, 

 but the outer tooth is long and acute. Antennae 13-jointed, 

 nearly as long as the body, cylindrical, pubescent, the flagellum 

 being fuscous or black towards the tip ; the pedicel is fully twice 



