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7. Front not indented below the antennal groove; middle or 



anterior ocellus not situate in antennal groove; scutel 



with a narrow base 8 



Front indented below the antennal grooves; anterior or mid- 

 dle ocellus in antennal groove; middle tibiae not very long 



Eusandalum p. 509 



8. First tarsal joint of mid legs with strong spines beneath. . . . 



Eupelmus p. 510 

 First tarsal joint of mid legs without strong spines beneath 



Ptinobius p. 511 



Metapelma Westwood. 

 °M. spectabilis Westwood. 



Female : length 4.5 mm. ; head green with cupreous reflections, 

 antennae black ; thorax concolorous with the head ; anterior and 

 mid legs ferruginous with greenish reflections, mid tarsi fuscous, 

 white at base, posterior legs fuscous, with their femora rufous 

 at base, their tibiae white at base ; wings cloudy behind the middle, 

 hardly infumated; abdomen black with chalybeous and purple 

 reflections, ovipositor nearly half the length of the body. 



Anastatus Motschulsky. 

 °A. mirabilis Walsh. Eupelmus mirabilis. Insects of Missouri, 

 6th Ann. Rept., 1874, Figs. 48, 49. 



Female : length 3-3.5 mm. ; head brilliant greenish coppery, 

 with purple reflections, mouth and clypeus black, antennae with 

 the scape rufous and the other joints brown-black; prothorax 

 rufous, mesonotum brilliant greenish coppery color, rest of thorax 

 above black, with blue and green reflections, pleurae sometimes 

 rufo-piceous in part, sternum black, with metallic green reflec- 

 tions, membranous parts before and on each side of scutel rufous, 

 a bright blue plate on each side of metathorax ; legs rufous, hind 

 coxae dusky, especially above, mid and hind femora and tibiae a 

 little clouded externally with dusky, last tarsal joint of all legs 

 dusky; front wings mostly dusky, with the apical sixth some- 

 times hyaline and the basal third and a transverse widely inter- 

 rupted band a little beyond the middle whitish subhyaline, veins 

 brown, hind wings hyaline, with their veins pale brown ; abdomen 

 mostly black, first segment with all but its basal fourth semi- 

 transparent white, sheaths of ovipositor white. 



