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a little closer in the male ; mesonotum with two delicate but dis- 

 tinct furrows ; metapleurabare or subpubescent ; first and second 

 funicle-joints about equal, a little longer than thick, shorter 

 than the pedicel, the third elongate, the fourth short ; club 

 cylindrical, the joints about twice as long as thick, or very little 

 longer. Wings hyaline, fringed. Legs black ; trochanters, base 

 of tibise, and the tarsi variable from a piceous to yeUow. Abdomen 

 conic-ovate, longer than the head and thorax together, petiolate ; 

 the petiole striate ; rest of the abdomen smooth, polished ; the 

 second segment with two long sulci at base, one on each side. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from one male and ten female specimens. Comes 

 Tery close to A. error, Pitch, but is smaller, with the joints 

 of the antennae relatively different. 



Teichacis, Mrster. 



Teichacis -RV^icoJjA,Ashm.,Monog.N.A.Proctotrypid(B, p. 296, 

 Of this species there are two specimeas agneeing in every 



particular with the types in the U.S. National Museum. It was 



reared from a Cecidomyid gall on Blackberry. . 



PoLTGNOTTJS, Forster. 



Of this genus, as now limited, five species have been recognizedy 

 which may be distinguished by the following table : — 



Males e , 2. 



Females. 



Mesonotal furrows distinct posteriorly for half 

 the length of the mesonotum. 

 Head much wider than thorax, the lateral 

 ocelli twice their width from the eye- 

 margin. 

 Legs black or piceous black, the trochanters, 

 base of tibise, and tarsi pale brown ; 

 antennae brown-black, the scape pale at 



extreme base P. meridionalis, sp. u. 



Mesonotal furrows wanting or but slightly indi- 

 cated posteriorly. 

 Head not so wide, the lateral ocelli not much 

 more than their width from the eye-margin. 

 Legs brownish yellow, the coxae black, the 

 femora more or less piceous ; antennae 

 brown, the scape brownish yellow .... P. insularis, sp. n. 



