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large, obconic above, abruptly decumbent at the tip ; metathorax 

 very short : propodeon large, obconic, declining, roughly punc- 

 tured : podeon dark purple, extremely long and slender : abdo- 

 men elliptical, slightly compressed, smooth, shining, dull red, 

 shorter than the podeon, much shorter and smaller than the tho- 

 rax ; metapodeon extremely large, occupying the whole of the dor- 

 sum and almost hiding the ventral segments : legs pubescent, red, 

 very slender ; coxae small, cupreous, rugulose ; spines of the tibiae 

 small, black ; first joint of the tarsi very long, equal in length to 

 the other four joints ; claws and pul villi small : wings very slightly 

 fuscous ; nervures piceous ; humerus much longer than the ulna ; 

 radius much shorter than the' ulna ; cubitus extremely short. 

 Length of the body 4 lines; expansion of the wings 6 lines. 



Page 21. Eucharis Pyttalus, Walker, MSS. Fern. Viridis, 

 abdominis disco cupreo, antennis piceis, pedibus flavis, alis 

 limpidis. (Corp. long. lin. 1^ ; alar. lin. 3.) 



Body convex, bright-green, here and there aeneous : head and 

 thorax rugulose : head transverse, very short, tuberculate, as 

 broad as the thorax *. eyes small, round, prominent : ocelli near 

 together on the vertex, the middle one a little in advance of the 

 other two : mandibles fulvous, long, arcuate, armed with long 

 sharp teeth, two on one mandible and one on the other : antennae 

 piceous, filiform, a little shorter than the thorax ; first joint long, 

 slender, yellow ; second cyathiform ; third and fourth extremely 

 minute ; fifth and following joints to the twelfth successively de- 

 creasing in length; thirteenth joint somewhat fusiform, slender to- 

 wards the tip, nearly twice the length of the twelfth joint : thorax 

 elliptical : prothorax extremely short, hardly visible above, trans- 

 versely striated : scutum of the mesothorax of moderate size, 

 rather broader than long, very slightly furrowed along the disk ; 

 sutures of the parapsides very distinct, approaching each other ; 

 axillae large, triangular, almost conniving, approaching much 

 nearer to each other than in the Eurytomidae and the Torymidae ; 

 scutellum subrhomboidal, rather large, declining behind: metatho- 

 rax transverse, very short : propodeon large, obconical, decum- 

 bent, having a rim on each side : podeon short, stout: abdomen 

 conical, minutely squameous, concave above, keeled beneath, 

 cupreous on the disk, nearly as broad as the thorax but much 

 shorter ; metapodeon occupying all the dorsum : legs yellow, slen- 

 der ; coxae blue, scaly ; joints of the tarsi from the first to the 

 fourth successively decreasing in length ; fifth joint longer than 

 the fourth : wings ample, limpid ; nervures fuscous ; humerus 

 about one-third of the length of the wing ; ulna fully as long as 

 the humerus ; radius extending to the tip of the wing, nearlv 



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