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roughly punctured above ; scutellum blue towards the tip : abdomen 

 brassy green, smooth, shining, obconical, flat above, slightly keeled 

 beneath, not longer than the thorax : legs black ; tarsi and tips of 

 tibiae pale red ; middle legs having the tibiae armed with long spines, 

 and the tarsi much dilated : wings limpid ; squamulse pale red ; ner- 

 vures brown. Length of the body | line ; of the wings 1| line. 



Encyrtus Eitelwienii, Ratzeburg, Austria = Encyrtus flaminius, Dal- 



man. 



graminis, Kollar, Austria = Encyrtus subplanus, Dalman. 



longicornis , Kollar, Austria. 



Female. — Body aeneous, long and narrow : head and thorax con- 

 vex, finely punctured, almost smooth : head transverse, dark green, 

 hardly as broad as the thorax : eyes piceous : antennae black, fihform, 

 extremely slender, shorter than the body ; first joint long and linear : 

 thorax elliptical ; prothorax very distinct above, narrower in front : 

 abdomen fusiform, depressed above, keeled beneath, rather narrower 

 and much longer than the body : oviduct pale red, projecting a little 

 beyond the tips of the abdomen : legs long, pale tawny, slightly 

 shaded with piceous : hind thighs brassy black ; hind tibiae dark pi- 

 ceous ; tips of the tarsi piceous : wings limpid, of moderate size ; 

 squamulae piceous ; nervures brown. Length of the body 1;^ line ; 

 of the wings 1 J line. 



This species is allied to Encyrtus Imandes (Ent. Mag. iv. 449), 

 but the latter has a different colour, and is less than half its size. 



Encyrtus encopiformis, Kollar, Austria. 



Body very broad and thick : head and thorax convex, dark bluish 

 green : head transverse, short, a little broader than the thorax, 

 roughly punctured : eyes dark red ; antennae clavate, slender, dull 

 pale tawny, shaded with piceous, as long as the head and the thorax ; 

 first joint long, slender, linear ; second and following joints short ; 

 club piceous, slightly truncate : thorax slightly punctured ; prothorax 

 just visible above : scutum of the mesothorax very short ; scutellum 

 with a slight longitudinal impression : abdomen dark brassy green, 

 obconical, depressed above, not longer than the thorax : legs stout, 

 brassy black ; tarsi tawny, their tips piceous ; middle tarsi much di- 

 lated : wings small, piceous, iridescent, thick, as if half coriaceous ; 

 nervures piceous ; ulna and radius very short ; cubitus longer than 

 the ulna ; stigma very small. Length of the body | line ; of the 

 wings 1 line. 



This insect is allied to Eunotus cretaceus (Ent. Mag. ii. 298), to 

 Encyrtus (^Choreius) ineptus (Dalman), and to Epicopterus chorei- 

 formis (Westwood, Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 418), and it resembles the 

 last species in having a slight indentation on the fore border of the 

 wing near the end of the humerus. 



Encyrtus fallax , Kollar, Austria = Encyrtus hemipterus, Dalman. 



atomon, Kollar, Austria. 



This beautiful little species seems to belong, or to be very nearly 

 allied to, the genus Tetrastichus. The body is dark blue and rather 



