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Show 1895.] HYMENOPTERA OF T H E ISLAND OF GRENADA. ; 779 and hind coxae and femora, except tips of the middle pair, tips middle tibise and base and apex of hind tibiae and their tarsi, except narrowly at base of joints, black ; tips of joints of anterior and middle tarsi dusky. Wings fuscous, the costal vein at base yellow, the stigma and all other veins black or blackish fuscous. Metathorax rugose. Mount Gay Estate. Described from one female specimen. EIPHOSOMA, Cresson. ElPHOSOMA ANNULATUS, Cr. This species is represented by 4 male and 6 female specimens taken on Mount Gay Estate. . ANGITIA, Holmgren. ANGITIA INSULARIS, Ashm. Cremastusl insularis, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 140. This species, doubtfully described under the genus Cremastus, is represented by one male and one female specimen, labelled St. John's Eiver. THERSILOCHUS, Holmgren. THERSILOCHUS OCULATUS, sp. n. d. Length 3 mm. Head and thorax above black, shining, sericeous, impunctate; metathorax areolated; thorax at sides and beneath rufous ; clypeus, legs, including all coxae, and the abdomen reddish yellow or dark honey-yellow. Head transverse, the occiputsubconvex, the frons impressed ; eyes very large, occupying the whole side of the head, strongly facetted and convergent above, the vertex therefore very narrow; ocelli large, prominent, rather close together, the lateral being close to the eye-margin; clypeus not separated, prominent, and somewhat rounded anteriorly. Antennae 17-jointed, short, not longer than the thorax, the scape and pedicel yellow; flagellum dark brown, the first joint the longest, about three times as long as thick at apex, the following joints very gradually shortening. Thorax smooth, without parapsidal furrows, the mesonotum as wide as long, the scutellum with a transverse furrow at base; metathorax posteriorly obliquely truncate, the truncature impressed medially and bounded by carinae at the sides. Wings subhyaline, the stigma very large, triangular, and, as well as the venation, brown. Abdomen compressed, with the petiole very long and slender, about as long as the hind femora, slightly dusky towards base; body of abdomen about twice as long as the petiole, the first three segments subequal. Mount Gay Estate. Described from one male specimen. |