or THE ISLAND OF ST. TINCENT. 231 



Abdomen broadly oval, the first and second segments equal- 

 faintly aciculated. 

 Hah. St. Vincent. 



Hadeonotus BlcoLOE, sp. n. 



$ . Length 0'6 millim. Brown-black, minutely, closely 

 punctate; face deeply emarginated for the antennae; scape, 

 mandibles, legs, and abdomen rufous ; pedicel two thirds the 

 length of the funicle; first funicle-joint not longer than thick, 

 the second, third, and fourth minute, transverse. "Wings hyaline^ 

 the marginal vein very short, about twice as long as thick. 

 Abdomen oval, punctate, the first and third segments about 

 equal, shorter than tlie second, the first striate. 



Sah. St. Vincent. 



Described from two specimens. 



Ideis, Forster. 



Ideis ^kea, sp. n. 



<S ? . Length 2 to 2*1 millim. Black, the head and thorax 

 with a decided aeneous tinge ; head sparsely punctate and striate, 

 a smooth impunctured space above the antennae ; eyes hairy. 

 Antennae brown, the scape long, reddish yellow ; first funicle- 

 joint very little shorter than the pedicel ; second two thirds the 

 length of the first ; third and fourth minute. Thorax ovate, 

 subdepressed, punctate, with a smooth, impunctate space at the 

 middle ; the mesonotum a little wider than long, arcuate anteriorly, 

 with two distinct furrows. "Wings fuscous, the venation brown- 

 black, the marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal but slightly 

 developed, shorter than the stigmal, the latter short, oblique, 

 ending in a rounded knob. Legs honey-yellow. Abdomen 

 oblong oval or ovate, very little longer than the head and thorax 

 together, striate, the fourth and following segments punctate ; 

 the first segment is scarcely as long as the second and has a 

 prominence or carina at base, its tip ending in a small thorn or 

 spur; the third segment is the longest, about one half longer 

 than the second. 



The male differs from the female in the filiform, brown-black 

 antennae, the scape being yellow ; the first funicle-joint is the 

 longest, much longer than the pedicel, about twice as long as 

 thick, the following joints except the last about equal, very 

 little longer than thick. 



