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subrhomboidal : hind-chest rather large, obconical, declining, with 

 a ridge along the middle and a short suture on each side : petiole 

 very short : abdomen nearly oval, smooth, bluish green, dark cop- 

 pery-purple on the disk, depressed above, hardly keeled beneath, 

 shorter and a very little broader than the chest ; metapodeon occu- 

 pying less than one-fourth of the back ; octoon and all the following 

 segments of moderate and nearly equal size : legs bright tawny ; 

 hips green ; shauks and feet of four hinder-legs bright yellow ; tips 

 of the feet brown : wings colourless ; veins pale yellow ; ulna much 

 more than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little shorter 

 than the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the radius ; wing-brand 

 small, brown. Length of the body lj line ; of the wings 2 J 

 lines. 



Pte rom alus Arestor. Fern. Viridis, capite cyaneo-nigro> ab- 

 domine ceneo-viridi, antennis nigris, tibiis tarsisque flavis, alis 

 limpidis. Page 120. 



Body rather narrow : head and chest convex, finely shagreened : 

 head bluish black, broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets dark 

 red : feelers black, slightly clavate, nearly as long as the chest ; first 

 joint long, slender ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very 

 small ; the following joints from the fifth to the tenth successively 

 decreasing in length ; club spindle-shaped, more than twice the 

 length of the tenth joint : chest bright green, nearly spindle-shaped : 

 fore-chest very short; its length not more than one-tenth of its 

 breadth ; hind-border concave : shield of the mid-chest rather long; 

 sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axilla? parted by near one- 

 fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhomboidal : hind- 

 chest large, obconical, slightly declining, with a ridge along the 

 middle and a rim on each side : petiole very short : abdomen ellip- 

 tical, brassy green, smooth, depressed above, hardly keeled beneath, 

 a little broader and much shorter than the chest ; metapodeon oc- 

 cupying nearly one-fourth of the back ; octoon and the following 

 segments of moderate size : legs bright yellow ; hips and thighs 

 green, tips of the latter yellow ; tips of the feet brown : wings co- 

 lourless ; veins pale yellow ; ulna rather more than half the length 

 of the humerus ; radius shorter than the ulna ; cubitus shorter 

 than the radius ; wing-brand very small. Length of the body 1 

 line ; of the wings 2 lines. 



Pteromalus Eulimene. Fern. Viridis, abdomine cupreo-pur- 

 pureo, basi viridi micante, antennis pedibusque fulvis,femori- 

 bus viridibus, alis limpidis. Page 120. 



Body short, robust : head and chest dark green, convex, finely 



