248 ME. W. B. ASHMEAD ON THE PAEASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



the latter are about equal in length, the second not excised 

 at base, the joints beyond to the last being very sligbtly and 

 gradually subequal ; last ventral segment piceous, but with, two 

 small punctures at base. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



Described from 22 male and 14 female specimens. 



Tribe ii. Diapeiini. 



GrALESUS, Curtis. 



G-ALESTJS BIPUNCTATUS, Sp. n. 



$ . Length 2-2 to 2*4 millim. Polished black, impunctured, 

 with sparse white hairs ; head oblong, with a margined angulation 

 in front of each eye, the space between it and the eye with a row 

 of punctures ; between these angulations there is another mar- 

 gined space enclosing the ocelli ; vertex with six small punctures ; 

 face prolonged, with deep broad sulci beneath the eyes ; frontal 

 prominence with a median sulcus. Antennae black, 12-jointed, 

 the scape angulately dilated a little beyond the middle ; flagellar 

 joints, after the fourth, transverse-moniliform, loosely joined and 

 gradually widened towards tip of flagellum, the last joint ovate, 

 twice as long as the penultimate. Thorax with two furrows, the 

 middle lobe with two small punctures at base and two at the 

 middle ; scutellum truncate and with two punctures at tip, a 

 broad sulcus at sides and two large fovese at base ; metathorax 

 grooved, pubescent. "Wings folded, deeply emarginate at apex. 

 Legs rufous or reddish yellow, the coxae black. Abdomen oblong- 

 oval, polished black; the petiole about twice as long as thick, 

 fluted and pubescent. 



S . Length 2*5 millim. In this sex the head is shorter, only a 

 little longer than wide, with the ridges and punctation as in 

 the female. The antennae are 14-jointed, filiform, as long as the 

 body, the pedicel and first funicle-joint being brownish yellow or 

 brown, the rest of the antennae black ; the second funicle-joint 

 is a little thicker and shorter than the first, excised at base; 

 the joints beyond a little longer, very little more than thrice as 

 long as thick, the last joint being much longer than any of the 

 others. 



Hah. St. Vincent. 



De.scribed from two male and two female specimens. 



