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podeon short: abdomen elliptical, depressed above, keeled beneath, 
rather longer but not broader than the thorax; disc dark cupreous ; 
metapodeon and following segments of moderate size: legs slender, 
green; coxe and thighs squameous; knees and tips of the tibiz 
white ; tarsi fuscous, white towards the base ; protarsi piceous ; wings 
slightly fuscous; nervures fuscous; humerus less than one-third of 
the length of the wing; ulna much longer than the humerus; radius 
and cubitus very short, the former a little longer than the latter; 
stigma of moderate size. 
August, near Dover. 
24. Entedon Ceedicius, mas. Viridi-cupreus, antennis piceis, pe- 
dibus albidis, alis limpidis. (Corp. long. lin. 2: alar. lin. 14.) 
Bright, broad, rather short, cupreous, varied with green: head and 
thorax convex: head transverse, as broad as the thorax, very finely 
squameous, almost smooth; vertex broad; front abruptly declining, 
not impressed : eyes of moderate size, not prominent: ocelli disposed 
in a triangle on the vertex: antenne setaceous, slender, piceous, in- 
serted near the mouth ; first joint long, slender, fulvous ; second long- 
eyathiform; third and following joints nearly linear; club fusiform, 
acuminated, longer than the preceding joint : thorax oval, finely squa- 
meous: prothorax very short: scutum of the mesothorax broad ; 
sutures of the parapsides distinct, approaching each other towards 
the scutellum ; axille triangular, of moderate size, remote from each 
other; scutellum rhomboidal, rather large: propodeon large, obco- 
nic, declining, rugulose: podeon distinct, equal in length to. one- 
fourth of the abdomen: abdomen depressed, smooth, shining, rather 
broader than long, as broad as the thorax but less than half its length; 
metapodeon of moderate size; octoon and following segments to the 
protelum each shorter than the metapodeon; paratelum and telum 
very short : legs white ; tips of the tarsi fuscous : wings limpid ; fore- 
wings broad; nervures yellow; humerus less than one-third of the 
length of the wing; ulna much longer than the humerus ; radius less 
than one-fourth of the length of the ulna; cubitus much shorter than 
the radius; stigma very small. 
England. From the collection of the Rev. G. T. Rudd. 
25. Entedon Nautius, mas. Cyaneo-viridis, abdominis disco eneo, 
antennis nigris, pedibus stramineis, alis limpidis. (Corp. long. 
lin. 1; alar. lin. 14.) 
Body nearly linear, bright bluish green: head and thorax convex, 
finely squameous: head transverse, short, as broad as the thorax; 
vertex broad ; front impressed, abruptly declining: eyes of moderate 
size, not prominent: ocelli disposed in a triangle on the vertex: an- 
tennz setaceous, black, pubescent, much shorter than the thorax ; 
first joint long, slender, fulvous; second long-cyathiform ; third large; 
fourth and following joints nearly linear; club fusiform, acuminated : 
thorax oval: prothorax transverse, very short: scutum of the meso- 
thorax broad; sutures of the parapsides distinct, slightly approach- 
ing each other towards the scutellum ; axille triangular, small, sepa- 
