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Show 798 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD-REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, iridescent, the venation brown. Abdomen long, fusiform, nearly twice as long as the head and thorax united, except the first two segments, which are striated, smooth, and polished; horn at base very prominent, polished. Balthazar. Described from one female specimen. (3) CALOTELEIA GRENADENSIS, sp. n. 2 • Length 2*5 mm. Black and shining, except the head which is opaque, closely punctate; the scape, pedicel, mandibles, collar, legs, and apex of first abdominal segment, including the base of the second, brownish yellow. The flagellum is about one and a half times as long as the scape, the first joint very little longer than the pedicel, second and third quadrate, fourth very minute; club fusiform, 6-jointed. Thorax sparsely punctate, with distinct parapsidal furrows ; wings hyaline, the venation brown. Abdomen fusiform, 1\ times as long as the head and thorax together, polished, the first segment and the second at base striated; horn at base prominent, smooth. Mount Gay Estate. Described from one female specimen. CACUS, Riley. CACUS INSULARIS, Ashm. 1. c. p. 227. Mount Gay Estate. One male specimen. ANTERIS, Porster. (1) ANTERIS RUFIPES, Ashm. 1. c p. 227. Mount Gay Estate. Two male specimens. (2) ANTERIS STRIATIFRONS, sp. n. 2 - Length 2 mm. Black, shining; antennae, except club, and legs brownish yellow, the apex of scape and funicle more or less obfuscated; wings hyaline, the nervures yellowish. Head transverse, the frons and face longitudinally striated; mandibles ferruginous ; antennae 12-jointed, the pedicel and first joint of funicle about equal in length, the second funicular joint a little longer than wide, the third quadrate, the fourth transverse; club fusiform, 6-jointed. Thorax with distinct parapsidal furrows, smooth, shining, but under a high-power lens snowing some sparse microscopic punctures ; mesopleura rather closely punctate; scutellum polished, impunctate. Abdomen fusiform, longer than the head and thorax united, polished, impunctate, except the first and second segments above, which are striated. Balthazar. Described from one female specimen. CREMASTOB^US, Ashmead. CREMASTUS ANNULIPES, sp. n. o*. Length 1*2 mm. Black, subopaque, minutely punctulate; antennae light brown, the flagellum filiform, submoniliform, the |