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ing from the fifth to the tenth successively but very slightly decreasing 
in length ; club long-conical, a little more than twice the length of 
the tenth joint: chest oval, brassy green, rather narrower towards 
the hind part : fore-chest very short, its length not more than one- 
eighth of its breadth: shield of the mid-chest broad ; sutures of the 
parapsides very indistinct ; axille parted by full one-fourth of the 
breadth of the chest ; scutcheon truncate-conical, rather long : hind- 
chest of moderate size, obconical, abruptly declining, nearly smooth, 
with a ridge along the middle and a rim on each side: petiole ex- 
tremely short : abdomen spindle-shaped, flat, smooth, shining, green, 
dark purple on the disc, bright coppery green at the base, shorter 
and much narrower than the chest: metapodeon occupying near 
half the back ; octoon not one-fourth of the length of the metapo- 
deon ; ennaton longer than the octoon; decaton a little shorter than 
the ennaton ; the following segments very short : sexual parts long, 
tawny : legs tawny ; hips and thighs green, tips of the latter yellow; 
trochanters piceous; a broad brown brand across each of the four 
hinder thighs ; four hinder feet pale tawny with piceous tips : wings 
colourless ; veins tawny ; humerus more than twice the length of the 
ulna; radius a little longer than the ulna; cubitus shorter than the 
radius ; brand small. 
Fem. Head and chest green, with a slight brassy tinge: head 
bluish green behind, rather broader than the chest: feelers clavate, 
piceous, shorter than the head and chest ; first joint green, tawny at 
the base ; the joints from the fifth to the tenth successively increasing 
in breadth and decreasing in length; club short-conical, broader than 
the tenth joint and full twice its length: abdomen oval, a little broader 
but not longer than the chest; bright green with the disc bronze, 
slightly compressed at the tip, concave above, very deeply keeled 
beneath, where it forms an angle whence it rises to the tip, which 
is much elevated, metapodeon occupying less than one-fourth of the 
back, its hind-border convex ; octoon not half the length of the meta- 
podeon ; each of the three following segments as long as the octoon ; 
paratelum shorter; telum longer; these segments are of more equal 
length beneath, where two or three ventral segments are visible 
towards the base of the abdomen: legs yellow; hips and thighs 
green; tips of the latter yellow; trochanters dark tawny; fore- 
shanks and fore-feet tawny ; four hinder shanks piceous with yellow 
tips; four hinder feet with piceous tips: veins of the wings pale 
tawny; brand brown. Length of the body 1-15 line; of the 
wings 21-2} lines. 
Pteromalus Calamis, mas et fem. neo-viridis, abdomine pur- 
pureo, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus mari piceis fem. 
obscure fulvis, alis limpidis. 
Body convex: head and chest extremely finely shagreened: head 
bluish green, rather large and thick, a little broader than the chest: 
_ eyes and eyelets piceous: feelers black, very slightly subclavate, nearly 
as long as the head and the chest; first joint long, slender, linear 
tawny ; second long cup-shaped ; third and fourth extremely minute ; 
