OF TTIE ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 245 



Tropidopsis, Ashmead. 



Teopidopsis clavata, sp. n. 



c? $ . Length 1*3 to 1*5 raillim. Brownisli red or ferruginous, 

 smooth, polished, impunctured ; antennse, except the club, and 

 legs paler, more yellowish. Antennae in female 12-jointed, 

 ending in an abrupt 3-jointed black club, the first two joints of 

 which are quadrate, the last oblong ; funicle 7-jointed, slender, 

 the first joint about twice as long as the second, the following 

 joints not longer than thick, the last two or three slightly trans- 

 verse ; pedicel obconic, much longer and stouter than the first 

 funicle-joint. Head globose, the face flat, with a very delicate 

 carina at the sides ; eyes large, rounded. Scutellum with a 

 single fovea at base. Metathorax with a central carina, emar- 

 ginate behind, the angles a little prominent. Abdomen oblong- 

 oval, the petiole a little longer than thick, pubescent Wings 

 hyaline, fringed, the submarginal vein reaching the costa at about 

 the middle of the wing and ending in a subtriangular marginal 

 vein ; basal nervure present, straight. 



The male is slightly smaller, the head more transverse, without 

 the delicate carinas at the sides of the face ; the antennse longer 

 than the body, 14-jointed, filiform ; the flagellar joints, except the 

 last, elliptic-oval, pubescent, the first three joints being a little 

 more slender than the following ; metathorax emarginate behind, 

 pubescent, with a prominent central carina ; while the abdominal 

 petiole is almost twice as long as thick, cylindrical, striate, and 

 pubescent. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from one male and one female. 



Paeamesius, Westwood. 



Paeamesius thoeacicfs, sp. n. 



S $ . Length 1'5 to 1"8 millim. Head and body of abdomen 

 polished black ; thorax variable, from a dark honey-yellow to 

 brown or piceous ; the male the paler, the female the darker, with 

 the pleura and metathorax sometimes black ; scape, petiole, and 

 legs reddish yellow or honey-yellow. Antennae in female 13- 

 jointed, clavate, the scape very long; the flagellum gradually 

 becomes brown-black at tip, the joints gradually increasing in 

 size after the sixth, submoniHform, the last large, conic, nearly 

 thrice as long as the penultimate; in the male filiform, 13- 



