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jointed ; the flagellar joints, after the first, all elongate, cylindrical, 

 the first very small, smaller than the pedicel, the second thrice as 

 long as the pedicel, excised at base. Thorax smooth, shining, 

 with, two furrows ; scutellum with a large fovea at base ; meta- 

 tborax rugose, with a sharp median carina. Wings hyaline, 

 pubescent, ciliate ; the venation brown, the marginal vein thrice 

 as long as thick, a little narrower at base than at tip ; stigmal 

 vein scarcely developed, not longer than thick ; basal vein sub- 

 obsolete or entirely absent. Abdomen in female conic-ovate, the 

 petiole about twice as long as thick, striate ; in male pear-shaped, 

 the petiole about four times as long as thick ; body of abdomen 

 in both sexes highly polished. 



Hob. St. Vincent. 



Described from four male and four female specimens. 



Spilomicefs, Westwood, 



The following table will assist in recognizing the species in this 

 genus. 



Wings subfuscous, the basal vein absent. 



Legs dark rufous, the coxae black or piceous. 



Antennae brown-black, the second flagellar joint 



shorter than the first, excised at base S. aneurus, sp. n. 



Wings hyaline, the basal vein present. 

 Legs, including coxae, reddish yellow. 



Antennae pale brown, the scape and pedicel yel- 

 lowish, second flagellar joint not excised at 

 base S. vulgaris, sp. n. 



Spilomiceus akeueijs, sp. n. 



$ . Length 3'2 millim. Polished black, impunctured ; head 

 globose, the cheeks woolly behind ; frontal prominence large, the 

 face with a ^-shaped sulcus ; mandibles black or piceous. 

 Antennse 13-jointed, black, much thickened towards tips ; scape 

 about as long as the first four funicle-joints combined, curved j 

 first funicle-joint longer than the pedicel, the latter equal with 

 the second funicle-joint ; joints from the fifth to the penultimate 

 quadrate moniliform, tbe last conic, not longer than, and scarcely 

 as wide as, the penultimate. Thorax with two furrows ; the pro- 

 notum woolly at sides, and produced anteriorly above into a short 

 neck ; scutellum with a subapical transverse furrow, sulcate at 

 sides, and'with two large fovese at base ; postscutellum closely 

 punctate, tricarinate ; metathorax rugose, pubescent, with an 



