| OCR Text |
Show 800 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD-REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, (4) HADRONOTUS GRENADENSIS, sp. n. o*. Length 1-2 mm. Black, subopaque, coarsely irregularly rugose; scape and legs, except coxae, brownish yellow ; flagellum filiform, brown-black. Wings hyaline, the venation yellowish, the marginal vein stout, half as long as the stigmal. Pacial impression transversely striated, margined; first flagellar joint as long as the pedicel, or a little longer, second and third joints quadrate, those beyond transverse-quadrate, the last ovate, twice as long as the penultimate. Abdomen, except first segment, opaque, granulated, the first segment shining, striated, half as long as the second; third segment scarcely one-third the length of the second, the following segments very short. Mount Gay Estate. Described from one male specimen. SCELIO, Latreille. SCELIO INSULARIS, Riley. Mount Gay Estate. One male specimen. Subfamily VI. PLATYGASTERLN.S:. INOSTEMMA, Haliday. INOSTEMMA SIMILLIMA, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv., Zool. p. 232 Mount Gay Estate. Three female specimens. AMBLYASPIS, Porster. a. Scutellum ending in a long acute spine. (1) AMBLYASPIS XANTHOCHROA, sp. n. 2 • Length 1 to 1*2 mm. Brownish yellow; ocelli and eyes black; flagellum, mesonotum posteriorly, body of abdomen, tips of hind femora, and the tibiae dusky or black; scutellar spine very long, acute, extending far over the metathorax; club 4-jointed, the two middle joints a little longer than thick, the last joint ovate, about twice as long as the penultimate. Balthazar, Chantilly and Mount Gay Estates. Described from three female specimens. (2) AMBLYASPIS XANTHOPUS, Ashm. 1. c. p. 236. Balthazar, Grand Etang, Mount Gay Estate, St. George's, and St. John's River. Nineteen specimens. (3) AMBLYASPIS GRENADENSIS, sp. n. o*. Length 1 mm. Polished black ; face and cheeks below piceous; antennae, except club, and the legs, except posterior pair, brownish yellow, hind tarsi yellowish ; joints of club about 3 times as long as thick, bearded with white hair; scutellar spine long, acute, yellowish. Balthazar. Described from one male specimen. |
