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Show 1895.] HYMENOPTERA OF THE ISLAND OF GRENADA. 783 segments, the following gradually shortening; ovipositor not so long as the abdomen. Mount Gay Estate. Described from one female specimen. Subfamily SPATHIIN^E. SPATHIUS, Nees. SPATHIUS FLAVOTESTACEUS, sp. n. c?. Length 2*5 mm. Uniformly pale brownish yellow, the eyes violaceous. Head quadrate, the vertex and occiput finely transversely striated; antennae 25-jointed, one and a half times as long as the body. Thorax finely shagreened, the mesopleura with a crenate furrow, the metathorax rugose, exareolated ; anterior and middle coxae and trochanters whitish; anterior wings subhyaline, with a whitish transverse band between the stigma and the basal nervure, the stigma, except at base, and nervures brown; the second abscissa of radius is one-half longer than the first. Abdomen clavate, with a very long slender petiole which is as long as the body of abdomen, with the spiracles placed at its basal third; body of abdomen ovate, polished. Mount Gay Estate. One male specimen. Subfamily HECABOLIN^E. HETEROSPILUS, Haliday. (1) HETEROSPILUS FASCIATUS, Ashm. 1. c supra, p. 118. Mount Maitland and Grand Etang. Two male specimens. (2) HETEROSPILUS HUMERALIS, Ashm. 1. c p. 121. Chantilly Estate, Balthazar, St. George's, and St. John's Biver. Four specimens, 1 ?, 3 d • (3) HETEROSPILUS PALLIDIPES, Ashm. 1. c p. 119. Balthazar. One female specimen, agreeing fairly well with the type except that the ovipositor is a little shorter. Subfamily HORMIINJE. HORMIUS, Nees. (1) H O R M I U S RUGOSICOLLIS, sp. n. 5 . Length 2*5 mm. Polished black ; collar, metathorax, and plate on first abdominal segment rugose; disk of abdomen, flagellum, and legs rufous ; hind femora toward apex, coxae, and trochanters yellowish; palpi whitish. Antennae 21-jointed, the scape black, the flagellum dusky towards apex; mesonotum smooth, polished, trilobed; the scutellum bifoveated at base, the foveae with some raised lines at bottom; mesopleura with a deep fovea below the middle. Wings 50* |