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ingfrom 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 iiidistinct ; axillae 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 1-1^ line; of the 

 wings 2^-2|- lines. 



Pteromalus Calamis, mas et fem. ^neo-viridis, ahdomine pur- 

 purea, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femorihus vndsi piceis fem. 

 obscure fulvis, alls 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 ; 



