232 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Subfamily Pelecinellinse. 

 Subfamily Colotrechninae. 

 Subfamily Eupelminae. 

 Subfamily Encyrtinae. 



PELECINELLA WESTWOOD. 



1868. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Proc., p. 36. 

 1874. .Thes. Ent. Oxon., p. 142. 



(Type P. phantasma Westw. 9.) 



9. Body very long, linear; head subglobose, with deep antennal 

 furrow; eyes very large, convex; antennae n-jointed, longer than the 

 thorax, joints 2 and 3 minute, fourth joint very long, the following joints 

 gradually shortening; mandibles broad; maxillary palpi 4 or 5-jointed 

 (the last two joints connate) ; labial palpi 3-jointed, the last joint long, 

 clavate. 



Thorax elongate, the anterior half transversely striated; pronotum 

 very long, longer than the mesonotum but narrower, and narrowed 

 anteriorly; mesonotum with complete parapsidal furrows; scutellum 

 large, obconical, the axillae approximate; metanotum long, longer than 

 wide, without carinae or spiracular sulci, the spiracles oval ; wings with 

 the stigmal vein not developed, sessile or punctiform, the postmarginal 

 very long, extending to the apex of wing and fully twice as long as the 

 marginal; legs increasing in length and size posteriorly, the hind pair 

 more than twice larger than the anterior pair; anterior and posterior 

 coxae long, conical, the latter much the larger; anterior tibiae above and 

 hind coxae above serrated; tibial spurs i. 2, 2; tarsi on front and middle 

 legs much longer than their tibiae, those of the hind legs much shorter 

 than their tibiae. 



Abdomen petiola'ted, very long, slender, compressed, sword-shaped, 

 terminating in a long prominent ovipositor, which is more or less pro 

 tected at base by two large foliaceous plates or lobes. 



(J. Unknown. 



The following table will aid in separating the species : 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 

 Females. 



Mostly rufous 2. 



Mostly black. 



Abdomen purplish or chalybeous ; legs black, the 4 apical joints of 



hind tarsi white ; ovip. 10 mm P. phautasma Westw. 



Abdomen toward base and above the venter rufous or rufo-piceous, 

 otherwise, including the petiole, black ; legs black, but with the tibiae 

 and tarsi of anterior and middle legs and hind legs, except tibiae and 



