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Show 802 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD-REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, (2) POLYMECUS GRENADENSIS, sp. n. 2 • Length 1 mm. Polished black ; scape and legs brownish yellow, the tips of bind femora and tibiae dusky ; metapleura and base of abdomen with a silvery pubescence; scutellum armed with a small tubercle ; last three segments of abdomen forming a stylus, but united not longer than the rest of the abdomen and thorax united, the penultimate segment being the longest, longer than the other /two united. Grand Etang. Described from one female specimen. The antennae were folded under the body in such a way as to prevent them from being studied ; but the species may be readily recognized by the characters in the last three abdominal segments. SACTOGASTER, Porster. SACTOGASTER RUFIPES, Ashm. 1. c p. 238. Mount Gay Estate. Eight female specimens. SYNOPIAS, Eb'rster. SYNOPIAS FLAVIPES, sp. n. 2 - Length 0*65 mm. Polished black ; antennae, except tbe club, and legs, including the coxae, yellow; club brown-black; wings hyaline. The funicle is slender, the first joint scarcely longer than thick, the second very slightly thicker, the third a little longer, the fourth minute; club 4-jointed, the joints, except the last, transverse-quadrate, the last ovate. Mesonotum entirely without furrows; tip of scutellum with a small tubercle; metathorax clothed with a silvery-white pubescence, while the abdomen is ovate. o*. Differs from female only in the usual difference in the shape of the abdomen and in having a 5-jointed, light brown, antennal club, the joints being oblong and bearded, the second funicular joint being stouter and much longer than the first, the third minute. Balthazar and Mount Gay Estate. Described from the female and two male specimens. Subfamily X. DIAPRIINJE. Tribe i. SPILOMICRINI. PARAMESIUS, Westwood. PARAMESIUS THORACICUS, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 245. Balthazar, Grenada. One female specimen. SPILOMICRUS, Westwood. SPILOMICRUS VULGARIS, Ashm. 1. c p. 247. Balthazar. One female specimen. |