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h. Shining, black. 



Scape, pedicel, and legs honey-yellow or 

 pale brownish yellow ; hind femora 

 sometimes more or less dusky ; antennae 

 long ; mesoscutum without a row of 



punctures at the lateral margins T. longicornis, sp. n. 



Antennae short ; legs, except coxae and 

 femora, pale brownish or honey-yellow; 



hind wings acute at tips . . .■ T. acutipennis, s^.n. 



A pale spot at base of abdomen. 

 Black with a faint aeneous tinge. 



Scape, legs, and basal abdominal segment 

 honey-yellow, the femora dusky towards 



base T. basilaris, sp. n. 



3. Brown or brownish yellow. 



Frons not closely punctured with thimble-like 



punctures, at the most w ith only a row of 



punctures. 



Apex of antennae, head and thorax above, 



and the apex of the abdominal segments 



dusky or brown T.fasciatus, sp. n. 



Frons closely punctured with thimble-like 



punctures T. punctifrons, sp. n. 



Teteastichus cupeeus, sp. E. 



S 2 • Length 1*5 to 2 millim. Bright metallic green or 

 cupreous, more rarely bluish green, punctate ; scape, pedicel, and 

 legs, except coxse, yellow ; coxae metallic ; flagellum brown, 

 pubescent. Head transverse, a little wider thaa the thorax, 

 punctate, the vertex rounded ; ocelli red, connected by grooved 

 lines ; frons with a V-shaped antennal impression. Flagellum in 

 female brown, pubescent, with. tvA^iiig'joipt^j the f unicle-joints 

 oblong; club stout, fusiform, 3-jointed : in male filiform, pilose, 

 the first funicle-joint scarcely longer than thick, the following 

 joints almost equal, oblong, from 1| to 2 times as long as thick. 

 Thorax subovoid, with the collar distinct, transverse, rounded 

 anteriorly ; mesonotum not quite as long as wide, with distinct 

 parapsidal furrows, the middle lobe with a median grooved line, 

 usually subobsolete anteriorly, and with two punctate lines along 

 the lateral margins ; scutellura. convex, with two lines on disk 

 and a short median line at base ; metathorax short, areolated ; 

 pleura and coxae strongly punctate. "Wings hyaline, pubescent, 

 the venation yellowish. Abdomen sessile, ovate, cylindric, 



