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Art. LVI. — Monographia Chalciditum. By Francis 

 Walker. 



( Continued from page 364. j 



" the green myriads in the peopled grass." 



Family Encyrtid^. 

 Genus Encyrtus, Dalnian. 



Antenricie 11 -articulatae," ad os insertse : thorax antice angustatus, 

 postice quadratus : prothorax et metathorax minima, vix con- 

 spicua : abdomen breve, basi latum; segmentum 1""°. magnum; 

 sequentia breviora, subsequaiia : pedes pleruraque validi ; femora 

 recta ; tibiae simplices ; tarsorum articuli 1°. ad 4°". curtantes, 

 5°'. 4°. longior ; ungues et pulvilli parvi ; mesopedum tibiae 

 spinis armatse, tarsi lati ciliati : proalis nervus humeralis 

 longus, cubitalis mediocris, ulnaris et radialis brevissimi. 



Corpus punctatum, nitens, parce et breviter pubescens : caput 

 transversum, mediocre, latitudine thoracis, antice convexum : 

 oculi magni, subrotundi : ocelli in vertice triangulum fingentes, 

 medius antepositus : antennae clavatag, pubescentes, corporis 

 dimidio longiores ; articulus 1°'. fusiformis ; 2"'. cyathiformis ; 

 3'\ et sequentes breves, subcyathiformes, usque ad 8°°'. late- 

 scentes ; clava ovata, articulo 8". latior et plus duplo longior : 

 mandibulae tridentatse, subquadratae, non arcuatse ; dentes minuti, 

 acuti : maxillae longse, subarcuatte ; laciniae acuminatpe, intus 

 lobatse ; palpi 4-articulati, filiformes, articuli 1"'. 2"'. et 3"'. 

 mediocres, 4°% multo longior fusiformis : labium obconicum ; 

 ligula brevis, lata ; palpi biarticulati, breves, validi : thorax ovatus, 

 planus : parapsidum suturae non conspicuae : paraptera supra 

 convenientia : scutellum obconicum, apice subacuminatum : ab- 

 domen ovatum, planum, laeve, glabrum, apice acuminatum et parce 

 pubescens, thoracis longitudine : oviductus exertus ; vaginae 

 pubescentes ; metapedum femora et tibiae lata : alae angustae. 

 (Cerchysius, Westwood.) 



Sp. 1. En. urocerus. Fem. Viridis aid cyaneus, abdomen 

 ciipreum, antenna nigrce, pedes flavi nigro et fusco 

 varia, alee limpidce, proalce fusco plerumque fasciatce. 



' Antennae E. Jvscco 9-articulatae ? 



