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Family— EVANIIDJi:. 

 Ovipositor straight ; the abdomen attached to the metanotum ; the 

 antennse straight, thirteen- or fourteen-jointed. 



Genus-F(ENUS. 



Fabricius. 



Body long and narrow ; the abdomen compressed, thicker at the 

 extremity. Head semi-oval, flattened below ; the prothorax narrowed 

 into a neck. Antennse, at the most, as long as the head and thorax, 

 thicker in the males than in the females ; thirteen-jointed in the 

 males and fourteen-jointed in the females. Fore wings with a radial 

 cell which reaches nearly to the tip of the wing ; two large cubitals, 

 of which the first is rhomboidal ; three discoidals, of which the ex- 

 terior is very large, the other two very small, especially the anterior, 

 which is linear ; and a posterior marginal. Posterior legs longer and 

 stronger than the others ; the first joint of the tarsi much longer than 

 the others. 



F. CRAssiPES, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, j?;. 479. 



Female. Black ; the abdomen variegated with sericeous-grey pile. 

 Head subglobose, the front covered with a thin silvery-white pubes- 

 cence ; the anterior margin of the face and clypeus, and also the tips 

 of the mandibles, ferruginous ; the latter bidentate at the apex, and 

 having a strong acute tooth towards their base on the inner margin. 

 Thorax : the mesothorax transversely striated, with two oblique fer- 

 ruginous sutures that meet at the scutellum, the latter subrugose ; 

 the hinder margin of the prothorax with a fringe of silvery-white 

 pubescence ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures black, the 

 stigma pale testaceous ; the femora and tibise ferruginous beneath, as 

 well as the intermediate and posterior coxse ; the posterior legs incras- 

 sate, their tibiae being clavate ; all the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen 

 clavate, and covered with silvery-grey pile, the apical margins of the 

 segments rufo-piceous, the abdomen having a tessellated appearance. 



Length, 5 lines. 



F. UNGUicuLARis. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, ^j. 480,2)1. IV., /. 8. 



Female. Black ; the abdomen tesselated with sericeous-grey pile. 

 Very like the preceding species, from which it differs in being rather 

 larger, the abdomen more elongate, and much more attenuated at the 

 base; the anterior margin of the face and clypeus not ferruginous. 

 The mesothorax not so strongly striated, and the oblique sutures not at 



