224 ME. W. H. ASHMEAB ON THE PAEASITIC HTMEKOPTEEA 



punctate. Antennae 12-jointed, brownisli yellow, the club black j 

 the first and second funicle-joints are long, cylindrical, subequal ; 

 the third two thirds the length of the second, stouter ; the fourth 

 about one half the length of third and thicker. Thorax with small 

 sparse punctures. Wings fuscous, with the basal half and the 

 apex hyaline ; basal nervure distinct, the marginal three times as 

 long as the oblique stigmal, the latter ending in a little knob; the 

 postmarginal longer than the marginal. 



Sah. St. Vincent. 



Described from six specimens. 



Cheomoteleia, Ashmead. 



ChEOMOTELEIA SEMICTAETEA, Sp. n. 



S $ . Length 4i'5 to 5 millim. Head and thorax cyaneous 

 punctate. Abdomen sessile, very long, pointed fusiform, ochra- 

 ceous, punctate, the first and second segments striate ; first 

 segment a little more than half the length of the second ; second 

 and third long, equal ; the following segments shorter, subequal, 

 the last two very minute. Legs yellow. Anteniise black, the 

 scape yellow : in the female ending in a 6-jointed club ; the 

 first funicle-joinfc the longest, one half longer than the second and 

 not quite twice the length of the pedicel, the third funicle-joint 

 aubequal with the second, the fourth a little longer than thick and 

 stouter than the third : in the male subfilif orm, the first flagellar 

 joint twice the length of the pedicel, after the third the joints, 

 except the last, about equal, less than twice as long as thick, the 

 last long, ovate. Wings fuscous, the marginal vein punctiform, 

 the basal nervure distinct ; the stigmal slightly curved, ending in 

 a small knob, with a slight trace of a radius. 



Hah. St. Yincent. 



Described from one male and one female, taken at an altitude 

 of 2000 feet. 



Opisthacantha, AsJimead. 

 Two species of this rare genus may be thus separated :— 

 Mesonotum without furrows. 



Polished black, impunctured, the petiole yellow ; it, 

 as well as the second abdominal segment, striate ; 

 postscutellar spine very minute. 

 Legs and scape honey-yellow. $ 0. polita, sp. n. 



