92 APPENDIX. 



Page 48. Pteromalus Nestocles. Viridis, abdomine cupreo, 

 antennis piceis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus viridibus, alis lirn- 

 pidis. 



Male ; Body stout, dull green: head ? and thorax finely squa- 

 meous: head broader than the thorax : antennae filiform, slender, 

 piceous, hardly longer than the thorax ; joints from the fifth to the 

 tenth successively decreasing in length ; club fusiform, twice the 

 length of the tenth joint: thorax oval: prothorax short: sutures 

 of the parapsides indistinct, scutellum with no traces of a trans- 

 verse suture : propodeon large, not keeled : podeon extremely 

 short ; abdomen nearly linear, depressed, smooth, shining, shorter 

 than the thorax ; disk cupreous ; metapodeon large ; octoon and 

 following segments of moderate size : legs fulvous ; coxae and 

 thighs green, tips of the latter fulvous: wings limpid; nervures 

 fulvous; humerus much longer than the ulna; radius shorter 

 than the ulna ; cubitus shorter than the radius ; stigma very 

 small. Length of the body lj line; expansion of the wings If 

 line. 



Page 48. Pteromalus Amyntor. Cyaneoviridis, thorace 

 ceneo, antennis fuscis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus viridibus, alis 

 subflavis. 



Female ; Bright-bluish-green : head and thorax finely squa- 

 meous : head as broad as the thorax : antennae clavate, fuscous, 

 shorter than the thorax; first joint fulvous; joints from the fifth 

 to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club conical, twice 

 the length of the tenth joint : thorax oval, bright aeneous : pro- 

 thorax very short ; sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; no 

 traces of the transverse suture on the scutellum : propodeon 

 short, keeled : podeon extremely short : abdomen fusiform, concave 

 above, keeled beneath, longer than the thorax ; hind-border of 

 each segment cupreous; metapodeon large ; octoon and following 

 segments of moderate size : legs bright fulvous ; coxae and 

 thighs green, tips of the latter fulvous ; tips of the tarsi piceous : 

 wings slightly tinged with yellow; nervures yellow; humerus 

 rather more than twice the length of the ulna ; radius a little 

 longer than the ulna; cubitus shorter; stigma fuscous, very 

 small. Length of the bodyf — 1 line; expansion \\ — Inline. 



Page 48. Pteromalus Cercides, Mas. et Fern. Viridis, ab- 

 domine cupreo, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus viri- 

 dibus, alis limpidis. (Corp. long. lin. 1 ; alar. lin. 1^.) 



Body nearly linear: head and thorax dark-green, finely squa- 

 meous : head broader than the thorax : antennae black, subcla- 

 vate, slender, as long as the thorax, first joint long, very slender; 

 second cyathiform ; third and fourth very minute ; the following 



