508 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



7. Front not indented below the antennal groove; middle or 



anterior ocellus not situate in antennal groove; scutel 



with a narrow base • • • • ° 



Front indented below the antennal grooves; anterior or mid- 

 dle ocellus in antennal groove; middle tibiae not very long 



Eusandalum p. 509 



8. First tarsal joint of mid legs with strong spines beneath 



Eupelmus p. 510 

 First tarsal joint pf mid legs without strong spines beneath 



Ptinobius p. 511 



Metapelma Westw^ood. 



°M. spectabilis Westwood. 



Female : length 4.5 mm. ; head green with cupreous reflections, 

 antennae black ; thorax concolorous with the head ; anterior and 

 mid legs ferruginous with greenish reflections, mid tarsi fuscous, 

 white at base, posterior legs fuscous, with their femora rufous 

 at base, their tibiae white at base ; wings cloudy behind the middle, 

 hardly infumated ; abdomen black with chalybeous and purple 

 reflections, ovipositor nearly half the length of the body. 



Anastatus Motschulsky. 

 °A. mirabilis Walsh. Eupelmus mirabilis. Insects of Missouri, 

 6th Ann. Rept., 1874, Figs. 48, 49, 



Female : length 3-3.5 mm. ; head brilliant greenish coppery, 

 with purple reflections, mouth and clypeus black, antennae with 

 the scape rufous and the other joints brown-black ; prothorax 

 rufous, mesonotum brilliant greenish coppery color, rest of thorax 

 above black, with blue and green reflections, pleurae sometimes 

 rufo-piceous in part, sternum black, with metallic green reflec- 

 tions, membranous parts before and on each side of scutel rufous, 

 a bright blue plate on each side of metathorax ; legs rufous, hind 

 coxae dusky, especially above, mid and hind femora and tibiae a 

 little clouded externally with dusky, last tarsal joint of all legs 

 dusky; front wings mostly dusky, with the apical sixth some- 

 times hyaline and the basal third and a transverse widely inter- 

 rupted band a little beyond the middle whitish subhyaline, veins 

 brown, hind wings hyaline, with their veins pale brown ; abdomen 

 mostly black, first segment with all but its basal fourth semi- 

 transparent white, sheaths of ovipositor white. 



