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Body convex, finely punctured, slightly shining : antennae 

 ferruginous, nearly filiform, as long as the thorax ; first joint 

 slightly dilated at the tip : scutellum slightly furrowed, armed 

 with two very short teeth at its tip : metapodeon slightly carinated: 

 podeon very short : abdomen smooth, shining, as long as the 

 thorax, red towards the tip which is somewhat attenuated : legs 

 ferruginous ; thighs slightly fuscous : wings nearly limpid ; a 

 large fuscous spot beneath the stigma of each fore-wing ; nervures 

 piceous ; ulna, radius, and cubitus very short ; stigma very small. 

 Length of the body 2 lines ; expansion of the wings 3 lines. 



a. Isle of France. 



Page 7. HALTICHELLA Amage. H, Proxenus. Page 7. 



Page 7. DIRHINUS A nthracia, Walker, MSS. Nigra, pedibus 

 rufs, metapedibus nigris, alls limpidis. 



Body black, dull, punctured : antennae black : head clothed 

 beneath with silvery down : tip of the scutellum dentate : abdo- 

 men smooth, shining, much shorter than the thorax : legs red ; 

 hind legs black : wings limpid ; squamulae and nervures piceous. 

 Length of the body 2 lines ; expansion of the wings 2-J lines. 



Page 8. EURYTOMA fumipennis, Walker, Ent. Mag.iv.24. 

 a. England. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



Page 10. EURYTOMA Iphis, Atra, yenubus tarsisque rufis, his 

 apice piceis, alls subfuscis. 



Female ; Body convex, black ; head and thorax roughly punc- 

 tured, sparingly clothed with white hairs : head broader than the 

 thorax ; antennae clavate, much shorter than the thorax ; first 

 joint long, slender ; second cyathiform ; third and fourth very mi- 

 nute ; fifth and following joints to the ninth nearly cyathiform, 

 successively shorter and broader; club long, conical, near thrice 

 the length of the ninth joint, its joints not being more closely fitted 

 to each other than are the preceding joints : thorax long obconical : 

 prothorax large, subquadrate, not narrower than the mesothorax ; 

 its breadth rather more than twice its length : scutum of the me- 

 sothorax short, broad ; sutures of the parapsides distinct, approach- 

 ing each other ; axillae large triangular, not decumbent ; scutel- 

 lum nearly rhomboidal: metathorax or propodeon large, transverse, 

 decumbent : podeon very short : abdomen elliptical, smooth, shin- 

 ing, shorter and a little narrower than the thorax ; its length a 

 little more than twice its height; metapodeon conical, decumbent 

 in front, less than one fourth of the length of the abdomen ; octoon 

 short, less than half the length of the metapodeon ; ennaton much 

 longer than the octoon ; decaton as long as the ennaton ; protelum, 



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