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EUPELMUS Acron. Fein. JEneo-viridis, capite purpureo, an- 

 tennis nigris, pedibus fulvis,femoribus tibiisque anticis piceis, 

 alisfulvis. Page 129. 



Connects Eupelmus with Trigonoderus. Head finely shagreened, 

 nearly smooth, dark purple varied with green, clothed with white 

 hairs in front, rather broader than the chest : eyes dark red, rather 

 large : feelers fourteen-jointed, black, clavate, hairy, much longer 

 than the chest ; first joint green, yellow towards the base; second 

 cup-shaped ; third and fourth very small ; the following joints to 

 the eleventh successively increasing in breadth and decreasing in 

 length ; club spindle-shaped, concave, broader than the eleventh 

 joint and more than twice its length : chest spindle-shaped, coarsely 

 shagreened, brassy green along the disk: fore-chest conical, ab- 

 ruptly narrower in front, much lower than the mid-chest ; its length 

 about half of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest nearly square, 

 flat; sutures of the parapsides quite obsolete; axillae parted by ra- 

 ther less than one- fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon 

 subrhomboidal, with a suture along each side : hind-chest and pe- 

 tiole very short : abdomen lance-shaped, brassy green, concave on 

 the disk, slightly keeled beneath, hairy towards the tip, about twice 

 the length and half the breadth of the chest ; metapodeou occupy- 

 ing about one-sixth of the back ; the following segments of nearly 

 equal length : legs tawny ; hips green ; tips of feet brown : fore- 

 legs short and stout with piceous thighs and shanks ; middle-legs 

 dilated as usual : wings tawny ; veins also tawny ; ulna much 

 more than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little shorter 

 than the ulna ; cubitus about half the length of the ulna, slightly 

 curved ; wing-brand very small. Length of the body 2 lines ; of 

 the wings 3 lines. 



METALLON (n. g.) 



Body narrow : head a little broader than the chest : feelers 

 10-jointed ; first joint long, slender ; second cup-shaped ; third and 

 following joints broader and successively decreasing in length : fore- 

 chest of moderate size, short-conical, slightly wrinkled across the 

 fore-part; its length about one-half of its breadth: shield of the 

 mid-chest short ; axillae parted by a very short interval on the back ; 

 scutcheon subrhomboidal : hind-chest of moderate size, obconical, 

 slightly declining : petiole very short : abdomen convex, smooth, 

 elliptical ; metapodeon short, hind-border slightly convex ; octoon 

 much longer ; ennaton and decaton much shorter ; paratelum and 

 telum short. 



