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acute median carina, rather prominent angles posteriorly, and 

 with lateral carinse. Legs dark rufous, pubescent, the coxae 

 piceous or black. Wings subfuscous, pubescent, the submarginal 

 vein reaching the costa at half the length of the wing, the mar- 

 ginal vein about three times as long as thick, the stigmal vein very 

 short, not longer than thick. Abdomen oblong-oval, polished, 

 pilose at apex ; the petiole long, three times as long as thick, 

 fluted, woolly beneath. 



c? . Length 3"5 to 4 milHm. Agrees well with the female 

 except that the scutellum has a transverse row of coarse punctures 

 at the apex, the last ventral segment is bifoveate, with a central 

 carina, while the antennae are long, filiform ; the scape is finely 

 striated beneath, and about as long as the pedicel and first fla- 

 gellar joint united, second funicle-joint about two thirds the 

 length of the first, excised at base ; the joints beyond the last 

 very nearly equal in length. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from one female and five male specimens. 



Spilomiceits vflgaets, sp. n. 



$ . Length 1'5 to 2*5 millim. Polished black, impunctured ; 

 head globose, sparsely pilose, the cheeks with a tuft of wool 

 behiad ; face smooth, not sulcate ; mandibles yellowish. An- 

 tennae 13-jointed, brownish yellow, with only three or four terminal 

 joints dusky or black ; scape about as long as the first five f unicle- 

 joints united ; first funicle-joint not or very little longer than the 

 pedicel, the latter much the stouter ; f unicle-joints 2 to 4 sub- 

 equal, shorter than the first ; joints 5 and 6 moniliform ; club 

 5-jointed, the joints transverse or subquadrate moniliform, the first 

 pale, the last three or four black. Thorax with two furrows, the 

 pronotum woolly at sides anteriorly ; scutellum with two large 

 fovese at base, a sulcus at the sides, and a transverse punctate 

 line at apex ; metathorax rugose, pubescent, with an acute ridge 

 at the middle and carinas laterally. Legs entirely reddish or 

 brownish yellow. Wings hyaline, the basal nervure distinct, 

 rarely subobsolete. Abdomen oblong-oval, polished, pilose at 

 tip, the last ventral segment minutely punctate ; petiole long, 

 coarsely fluted, pubescent above and beneath. 



c? . Length 2 to 2*5 millim. Differs principally in the filiform 

 brown antennae, the scape and pedicel alone being yellow ; the 

 scape is as long as the first and second funicle-joints united- 



