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Ferruginea, abdomine nigro, antennis pedibusque fla- 
vis, his fusco variis, alis basi fuscis. 
Ferruginous: head transverse, short depressed in front: 
chest short an forechest extremely short; shield of the 
middle chest broad, scutellum small, abdomen black, 
smooth, shining, obconic, sessile, hollow above, keeled 
beneath, a little broader and longer than chest, legs yel- 
low, fore-thighs and middle shanks brown at the base, 
middle thighs, hind thighs and hind shanks brown, the 
latter yellow beneath and the tips; feelers nearly spindle- 
shaped, yellow, about half the length of the body, first 
joint long, second joint cupshaped, brown at the base, 
third broad, fourth, fifth and sixth forming a spindle- 
shaped club, sixth joint dart shaped; fore-wings broad, 
brown from the base to beyond the middle, veins brown, 
not reaching beyond the middle of the wing, humerus 
long, ulna short, radius very short, cubitus rather short, 
stigma large. 
Length of body !/, line, of wings ”/, line. 
Britannia: Holywood. Not found in Denmark. 
OLIGOSITINI. 
Prestwichia Lubbock. 
1863. Prestwichia. Lubbock. Trans. Linn. Soc. London. XXIV p. 140. 
1879. — Westwood. Zool. (2) I. p. 587. 
1896—00. — Enock. Various periodicals. 
1897. = Willem. Bull. Scient. Fr. Vol. 30. p. 265. 
1898. - Dalla Torres Cat. Hym. V. p. 431. 
1904. = Ashmead. Classification p. 359. 
1907. - Schmiedeknecht. Die Hym, Mitteleuropas. 
1908. — -  Heymons. Deut. Entom. Zeit. Berlin. p. 138. 
1909. - Schmiedeknecht. Genera Insectorum. fasc. 97. Chal- 
cididae. 
1915. -- Wolff. Zeit. f. Forst- und Jagdw. XLVII. p. 566. 
This genus was originally described by Lubbock in 
1863. It has been found time after time in many Euro- 
