234 ME. W. H. ASHMEAD ON THE PABASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



Coxae black. 



Legs and antennae black; trochanters and 



tarsi brownish yellow A. nigricornis, sp. n. 



2. Legs and antennae, except the club, brownish 



yellow or honey-yellow. 



cJ with the claval joints several times longer 



than thick, clavate, with whorls of very long 



white hairs. 



$ with claval joints a little less than twice as 



long as thick. (Species large.) A. verticiUatus, sp. n.^ 



c? with claval joints not more than thrice as long 



as thick, cylindrical, pilose. 

 5 with claval joints not or scarcely longer than 



wide. (Species small.) A. xanthopus, sp. n. 



AmBLTASPIS TEIANQ-TTIiAEIS, sp. n. 



c? $ • Length 0"65 to 0-85 millim. Polislied black, impunc- 

 tured ; liead transverse, tlie vertex subacute, the lateral ocelli as 

 near to the middle ocellus as to the margin of the eye. Antennae 

 in female brown-black, the scape at base and beneath paler ; 

 pedicel much longer than the first funicle-joint ; second funicle- 

 joint ■very slightly shorter than first, only a little longer than 

 thick ; third smaller ; fourth wider than long ; club 4- jointed, 

 the joints, except the last, wider than long, the third the widest. 

 Thorax convex, without a trace of the furrows ; the scutellum 

 triangular, subconvex, covered with a rather dense fuscous 

 pubescence. Wings hyaline. Legs reddish yellow or brownish 

 yellow, the swollen parts of the posterior femora and tibiae 

 brownish or obfuscated. Abdomen ovate ; the petiole rugose, 

 with a greyish pubescence. 



In the male the scape and pedicel are yellow, the flagellum 

 brown ; the pedicel is as long as the first and second funicle- 

 joints together; first funicle-joint shorter and slenderer than 

 the second ; third equal, or very slightly longer than the first ; 

 club 5-jointed, the joints loosely joined, the first moniliform, the 

 three following elliptic-oval ; legs, including the coxae, reddish 

 yellow or honey-yellow ; the tarsi longer than their tibiae ; the 

 hind tibial spurs distinct; abdomen oblong-oval, pubescent at 



,se. 



Sab. St. Yincent. 



Described from one female and ten male specimens. 



Ambltaspis nigeicoenis, sp. n. 

 $ . Length 2 millim. Polished black, impunctured ; head 



