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Show 778 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD -REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, first, straight and stout. Metapleura covered with a griseous pubescence. Balthazar (windward side). TETRAMEROCERA, Ashm., g. n. (Type, T. variabilis.) Antennae in female 13-jointed, nearly as long as the body and terminating in an abrupt 4-jointed club; otherwise similar to Pentamerocera: the marginal cell closed, the second abscissa of radius longer than the first with a slight outward curve, the first abscissa with a slight inward curve. This genus is also only a subgenus of Eucoela and is quite distinct from Te.trarhapta, Forster, with which it agrees only in having a 4-jointed antennal club, the shape of the abdomen, scutellum, and venation being quite distinct. (1) TETRAMEROCERA VARIABILIS, sp. n. 2 . Length 0*9 to 1*4 mm. Polished black, with sometimes the pleura, metathorax, and base of abdomen reddish or brownish; antennae, except the last 2 or 3 joints, and legs brownish yellow; last 2 or 3 club-joints black. Antennse 13-jointed, not quite so long as the body; scape and pedicel subequal; funicle 7-jointed, the first joint the longest, 3^ times as long as thick at apex, joints 2-5 a little shorter, joints 6-7 still shorter and thicker, about twice as long as thick; club 4-jointed, the first joint a little smaller than the second, the last the stoutest. Scutellum closely punctate, the cup ovate, with a small fovea posteriorly and 4 punctures on the smooth anterior part. Wings hyaline, the tegulae piceous; the veins light brown or yellowish, the marginal cell completely closed, the first abscissa of radius very little shorter than the second, slightly curved inwardly, the second abscissa slightly curved inwardly. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax united, black, more or less piceous or brownish toward base, and with a narrow pubescent girdle. Balthazar (windward side) and Mount Gay Estate. Described from four female specimens. Family ICHNEUMONID^E. Subfamily OPHIONIN^E. CHAROPS, Holmgren. CHAROPS BIMACULATA, sp. n. 2 . Length 6 mm. Black, coarsely punctate, and more or less distinctly clothed with a glittering pubescence, especially on face, mesosternum, and metathorax; flagellum brown-black; scape, pedicel, mandibles, palpi, tegulae, foveae on second abdominal segment, a band at base of third segment, and legs yellow; middle |