198 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PAEASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



Abdomen as long as tte thorax, black, more or less tinged with 

 piceous. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from three specimens. 



Labeo simulans, sp. n. 



d". Length l-f millim. Black, shining, sparsely pubescent. 

 Head impunctured, shining, or at the most with a few scattered 

 punctures. Ocelli pale. Mandibles and palpi white. Antennae 

 10-iointed, fuscous, extending to the middle of the abdomen ; 

 scape longer than the pedicel; first flagellar joint more than 

 twice as long as the pedicel, the second and third joints as long 

 as the first, the following slightly shorter, but fully four times as 

 long as thick. Thorax smooth, shining, with two furrows con- 

 verging and almost meeting at the base of the scutellum. Meso- 

 pleura faintly, sparsely punctate, with a grooved line across the 

 middle. Metathorax shining, finely, closely punctured or sculp- 

 tured. Legs pale ; middle and posterior coxae basally and their 

 femora slightly dusky. Wings hyaline, including the stigma 

 and venation. Abdomen black, piceous towards the base. 



Sab. St. Vincent. 



Described from two specimens. 



Subfamily Ceeapheonin^. 



Ceeapheon, Jurine. 



This group is poorly represented in the collection, but six 

 specimens in all having been taken. All belong to the genus 

 CerapTiron, and represent four distinct species, which may be 

 separated as follows : — 



Mesonotum with a distinct medial grooved 



line 2. 



Mesonotum not grooved, or with only a trace 

 of the groove anteriorly or posteriorly. 

 Wings fuliginous or subfuscous ; scape, 

 pedicel, first flagellar joint, and the legs 

 brownish yellow ; rest of the flagellum 

 black or fuscous. 

 Female with the third and fourth fla- 

 gellar joints longer than wide C. fummipennis, sp. n. 



Female with the third and fourth fla- 

 gellar joints wid?:* than long C. Sancti'Vincenti, sp. n. 



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