182 G. E. J. NIXON 



?. Hind femur and hind tibia dull reddish-yellow but both faintly darkened at extreme apex. 



Face almost smooth. Labium somewhat elongate. Eyes rather markedly convergent. 



Side of pronotum with dorsal furrow. Mesoscutum somewhat dull by comparison with the 

 polished vertex and temples, thickly punctate and with a tendency towards striate-punctation 

 posteriorly. Propodeum coarsely rugose-reticulate, without trace of areolation but with weakly 

 indicated medial keel. Sternaulus deeply impressed, rugose. Metacarp hardly one and a half 

 times longer than its distance from the apex of the radial cell ; vannal lobe convex throughout 

 and with conspicuous fringe ; ist abscissa of the discoideus very distinctly shorter than the 2nd 

 Inner spur of the hind tibia virtually not longer than the outer one and hardly reaching the 

 middle of the hind basitarsus. 



Tergite 1 one and a half times longer than its middle width, dull, densely rugose ; tergite 2 

 with well defined lateral sulci delimiting a strongly transverse medial field, sculptured like tergite 

 1. Hypopygium membranous and with numerous lateral creases. Ovipositor sheath as long 

 as the hind tibia. 



West Indies : St. Vincent. 



Type in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



This group seems to show a certain affinity with the butalidis-group in general 

 habitus, tendency to convergence in eyes, short metacarp, sculpture of propodeum 

 and shape and sculpture of basal tergites. 



The BUTALIDIS-Groxjp 



I am not at all sure that this is a homogeneous group and I am putting into it a 

 number of widely different species, which, however, with one exception, are linked 

 by the common possession of a very short metacarp and a strongly rugose propodeum 

 which shows no trace either of a medial keel or an areola. 



The exception just referred to might almost be considered an aberrant member of 

 the laevigatus-groxxp because of its smooth propodeum. I am including it provision- 

 ally in the butalidis-group because of its strongly convergent eyes and short metacarp, 

 a combination of characters that I have so far not met with in the laevigatus-gr oup. 



Key to Species 

 Females 



1 Propodeum strongly shining, more or less smooth, polished ; posterior, polished band 

 of scutellum not interrupted at middle. 



Eyes strongly convergent below (Text-fig. 204) ; mouth parts, mandibles, labrum 

 and clypeus yellow ; face more or less pale medially ; stigma becoming pale proxi- 

 mal to middle ; tergite 1 roundly narrowed behind ; median field of tergite (2 + 3) 

 markedly subtriangular ; ovipositor sheath as long as the hind tibia ; hind 

 coxa almost yellow ; hypopygium very long (Text-fig. 210) ; length: ca. 2-3 mm. 

 without ovipositor ......... urgo sp. n. 



Europe: E. Mediterranean, Crete, Canea, vii. 1906, 4 $$, one the TYPE, (Biro). 

 Type in the Hungarian National Museum. 

 - Propodeum dull, evenly rugose all over ; posterior, polished band of the scutellum 

 more or less interrupted at middle by a patch of rugosity or area of punctation. 



Gaster densely pubescent ; wings markedly brownish ; tergite 1 and median field 

 of (2 + 3) dull and both equally strongly rugose ...... 2 



