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meeting on the back : abdomen long-obconical, depressed, smooth, 

 shining, dark bronze, bright green at the base, a little narrower but 

 hardly shorter than the chest : legs black ; knees yellow ; feet taw- 

 ny; middle-shanks and middle-feet luteous: wings colourless, ra- 

 ther narrow ; veins tawny ; ulna piceous. Length of the body 1-J- 

 line ; of the wings 1 line. 



ENCYRTUS Anthores. Fern. Nigro-viridls, antennis fuhns, pe- 

 dibus nigris, tarsis luteis, alls fuscis. Page 135. 



Allied to Epicopterus choreiformis, Eunotus cretaceus, Encyr- 

 tus encopiformis and E. (^Enasius) Hyettus. Body greenish black, 

 very stout and short: head hardly broader than the chest, very 

 coarsely excavated : eyes piceous : feelers tawny, slender, subcla- 

 vate, a little longer than the chest ; first joint long, slender, dull 

 yellow, traversed by a broad piceous band ; second piceous ; third 

 small ; the following joints successively increasing in breadth ; club 

 spindle-shaped, flat, a little broader than the preceding joint and 

 about twice its length : chest broad, thickly punctured : fore-chest 

 very short, but visible above : shield of the mid-chest very short ; its 

 length less than one-half of its breadth ; scutcheon short-obconical ; 

 axillae parted from each other by a short interval : abdomen obconi- 

 cal, depressed, thinly punctured, a little shorter but not narrower 

 than the chest ; its length slightly exceeding its breadth : legs deep 

 black : feet luteous ; shanks slightly curved : fore-wings brown, 

 hairy, broad, rather short ; veins piceous ; radius a little longer than 

 the ulna ; cubitus a little longer than the radius, with which it 

 forms a very acute angle : hind-wings colourless, narrow. Length 

 of the body line ; of the wings f line. 



ENCYRTUS Idya. Fern. Niger, capite nigro-ceneo, antennis m- 

 gro-piceis fulvo cinctis, tibiis intermediis tarsisque fulvis, alis 

 limpidis. Page 135. 



Body short : head and chest convex : head dark copper-colour, 

 finely punctured, as broad as the chest : eyes and eyelets piceous ; 

 the former rather large : feelers clavate, a little longer than the 

 chest ; first joint black, long, spindle-shaped ; second long cup- 

 shaped, piceous ; the following joints to the seventh tawny, very 

 short ; club spindle-shaped, black, as long as the six preceding 

 joints : chest short-oval, black, coarsely punctured : fore-chest short, 

 visible above ; its length about one-fourth of its breadth : shield of 

 the mid-chest short, broad ; axillae nearly meeting on the back ; 

 scutcheon nearly obconical : hind-chest extremely short : abdomen 



