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close, not large and mainly dorsal, ocelli forming an acute-angled 

 triangle • occipital ridge rounded. Pronotum sharply incised in 

 middle ; scapulae narrow towards tij)s, barely meeting ; meso- 

 scutellum declivous, subtriangular, rather rounded at tip, and 

 having a sparse tuft of bristles ; metascutum very short. Eore 

 and middle legs normal, rather short; hind femora somewhat 

 enlarged, convex on the outer surface, plane on the inner ; hind 

 tibiae flattened laterally. AViugs fuscous, with oblique hairless 

 line below stigma and with several hyaline spots ; submarginal 

 vein short, reaching margin before one half the wing-length ; 

 marginal short, obscured by brown bristles, but longer than the 

 short stigmal, which obliques into the wing-surface at an acute 

 angle with the post-costa ; postmarginal wanting. Abdomen as 

 long as thorax, concave above, subtriangular, although somewhat 

 rounded towards apex ; terebra exserted to about one sixth the 

 length of the abdomen. 



This genus is one of the intermediate forms between the 'Encyr- 

 tince and the JEupelmince, and presents in fact quite as many 

 Eupelmine as Encyrtine characters. 



HOMALOPODA CBISTATA, Sp. U. 



$ . Length varying from 1-11 millim. to 1*86 millim. ; expanse 

 varying from 2"26 millim. to 2'79 millim. Pace lustrous, very 

 faintly sbagreened ; vertex deeply, closely, and finely shagreened ; 

 mesoscutum as with face ; mesoscutellum as with vertex ; abdomen 

 smooth, shining. Prom the occipital ridge near the eyes arise 

 two slender bluut modified hairs or scales, plainly flattened 

 antero-posteriorly, and which may resemble the " schmale .... 

 abgerundete Lamellen," which occupy a similar position in the 

 European Habrolejyis Dalmanni, Westw. Mesoscutellum with a 

 sparse tuft of bristles near tip. Wings fuscous, hyaline at base 

 and with six hyaline spots, three on either border of the wing, 

 and all touching wing-border except the proximal caudal one, 

 Avhich is separated from border by a continuation of the fuscous ; 

 the two distal ones crescent-shaped and the others roundish, the 

 proximal one on the costal margin considerably smaller than 

 the others and situated halfway between beginning of fuscous 

 shading and stigmal vein ; middle costal hyaline spot beginning 

 just at stigmal vein, the middle caudal spot being just opposite 

 on caudal wing-border ; marginal vein with many dark bristles, 

 making a distinct brown patch at that point. G-eneral colour 



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