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Show 1895.] HYMENOPTERA OF THE ISLAND OF GRENADA. 745 COTHONASPIS, Hartig. COTHONASPIS ATRICORNIS, Sp. n. 2 • Length 0*8 mm. Polished black ; trochanters, kneas, tips of tibise, and tarsi dark honey-yellow or reddish yellow. Antennae 13-jointed, black, hardly as long as the thorax, the last five joints forming an abrupt club ; scape clavate, not quite 3 times as long as the pedicel; funicle 6-jointed, very slender, the first joint a little longer than thick at apex, the following joints moniliform ; club 5-jointed, the joints slightly increasing in size ; scutellum closely punctate, the cup small, oval, its disk with a median channel, app3aring as if composed of two foveae conjoined. Wings hyaline, ciliated, the tegulae piceous black, the venation dark brown, the marginal cell completely closed; the first abscissa of radius a little shorter than the second, with an almost imperceptible inward curve, the second abscissa straight. Abdomen compressed, nearly as long as the head and thorax united, perfectly smooth and bare at base. Balthazar. Described from one female specimen. KLEIDOTOMA, Westwood. Table of Species. Females. Wings entire 2. Wings excised at tip, or cordate 3. 2. All coxae, except sometimes the anterior pair, black ; scape about 3 times as long as the pedicel; antennae, except sometimes the funicle, black ; legs dark red, the femora obfuscated or blackish. First joint of funicle three times longer than thick, the four following joints a little longer than thick, the last three rounded ; cup with a small fovea and two punctures K. atrocoxalis, sp. n. First joint of funicle twice as long as thick, the following moniliform, subequal; cup with a single fovea but without punctures K. insularis, Ashm. Hind coxae rufo-piceous, the anterior and middle coxae reddish yellow; scape scarcely three times as long as the pedicel; antennae, except the funicle and sometimes more or less of pedicel which are piceous or rufous, black. First joint of funicle about twice as long as thick, the second a little longer than thick, the following all small, moniliform ; legs reddish yellow, the femora more or less obfuscated toward base; cup small, with a single fovea K. smithii, sp. n. 3. All coxae and legs red, reddish yellow, or yellow. Marginal vein three or more times longer than thick ; scape very little longer than the pedicel. Antennae, except club, and the legs reddish yellow, club black. First joint of funicle 1\ times as long as thick, the following joints moniliform, the last two. or three a little wider than long K. marginalis, sp. n. |