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9. Eupelmus gracilis. 



Niger ; antennarum scapo tarsisque anterioribus testaeeis ; abdominis basi alba ; alis fumatis, bifasciatis.. 

 Long. 4 millim. 



Bab. Guatemala, Mirandilla 1700 feet (Champion). 



Head covered in front with a white pubescence; mesonotum with shorter, almost 

 fuscous pubescence ; the legs with a microscopic down ; apex of abdomen with mode- 

 rately long fuscous hair. The head is alutaceous, finely punctured; mesonotum 

 alutaceous, pleurae half shining, faintly alutaceous. Abdomen smooth, shining. The* 

 antennas are a little longer than the head and thorax ; scape curved ; flagellum rather 

 thin to the middle, where it gradually thickens towards the point ; the two last joints; 

 form a distinct flattened club; the joints are covered with a pale microscopic pile. The 

 anterior legs are fuscous black, posterior coxae green. The ovipositor is one third of 

 the length of the abdomen, black, the apex testaceous. The wings are shorter than 

 the abdomen, and marked with an obscure white band before the ulna, and a larger,, 

 broader, curved one in front of the cubitus ; the apices lighter in colour. 



10. Eupelmus erythrothorax. (Tab. VI. fig. 11.) 



Niger ; pronoto purpureo, antennarum scapo, thorace pedibusque rufis ; alis flavo-hyalinis. 

 Long. 6 millim. 



Bab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 



Antennae a little shorter than the abdomen, moderately stout, becoming gradually, 

 thickened towards the apex ; scape curved ; third joint scarcely one fourth shorter than 

 the fourth and as long as the fifth ; the fifth is shorter than the sixth, seventh and 

 eighth shorter and not much longer than broad, ninth and tenth broader than long;, 

 club distinctly three-jointed. The head is alutaceous, finely pubescent, the front 

 bluntly keeled. Thorax smooth, shining. Mesonotum margined at the sides all 

 round ; the middle hollowed throughout to the scutellum ; a raised, long, triangular 

 part at the base is continued as a narrow keel to near the end ; the sides of the 

 depression are not margined; outside the hollow the mesonotum has a blistered, 

 appearance. The metanotum and sternum are covered sparsely with longish white 

 hairs. The abdomen is more than double the length of the thorax, incised beneath, 

 at the base, the ventral surface margined in the middle ; the apex produced into a* 

 blunt point; the apical segments longer than the middle; the sixth semicircular at 

 the apex, and not much longer than the apical. The back of the abdomen is black, 

 the sides at the base and the base above greenish blue ; the posterior coxae are bluish.. 



11. Eupelmus hyalinipennis. 



Niger; antennis nigris; pedibus intermediis totis, femoribus posticis apice, tibiis tarsisque testaeeis; tibii* 



tarsisque anticis sordide testaeeis ; alis hyalinis. 

 Long, fere 5 millim. 



Ilab. Guatemala, Pantaleon 1700 feet (Champion). 

 biol. centr.-amer., Hynienopt., August 1884. R» 



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