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shaped; third and fourth very small; the following joints to the 

 tenth successively decreasing in length; club spindle-shaped, 

 broader than the tenth joint and more than twice its length : chest 

 oval : fore-chest very short ; its length less than one-tenth of 

 its breadth : shield of the mid-chest rather long ; sutures of the pa- 

 rapsides very indistinct ; axillae parted by one-fourth of the breadth 

 of the chest ; scutcheon subrhomboidal, with a suture along each 

 side : hind-chest of moderate size, obconical, declining, with a ridge 

 along the middle and a rim on each side : petiole verj short ; ab- 

 domen nearly linear, depressed, smooth, green, purple on the disk, 

 a little shorter and narrower than the chest ; metapodeon occupy- 

 ing about one-fourth of the back ; octoon and following segments 

 short : legs tawny ; hips and thighs excepting the tips of the latter 

 green ; four hinder-knees and feet pale tawny ; tips of the latter 

 brown : wings colourless ; veins pale tawny ; ulna less than half 

 the length of the humerus ; radius much longer than the ulna ; cu- 

 bitus shorter than the radius ; wing-brand small, pale brown. 

 Length of the body 1 line ; of the wings 2 lines. 



Var. a. Golden green ; disk of the abdomen purple : wing- 

 brand pale tawny. 



Pteromalus Amnisos. Fern. JE!neus,abdomine purpureo basi 

 viridi, antennis nigris apice piceis, pedibus flavis, femoribus 

 viridibus, tibiis piceo cinctis, alls limpidis. Page 120. 



Body brass colour : head and chest convex, finely shagreened : 

 head as broad as the chest : eyes and eyelets dark red : feelers slen- 

 der, subclavate, black, piceous at the tips, as long as the chest ; first 

 joint long, slender, tawny at the base ; second cup-shaped ; third 

 and fourth very small ; the following joints from the fifth to 

 the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club conical at the tip, 

 a little broader than the tenth joint and more than twice its length : 

 chest oval : fore-chest short ; its length rather more than one-tenth 

 of its breadth : sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axillae 

 parted by rather more than one-fourth of the chest ; scutcheon sub- 

 rhomboidal, with a suture along each side and an indistinct trans- 

 verse channel near the tip : hind-chest of moderate size, obconical, 

 declining, with a ridge along the middle and a rim on each side : 

 petiole very short : abdomen long-oval, smooth, purple on the disk, 

 bright green at the base, depressed above, deeply keeled beneath, as 

 long and nearly as broad as she chest ; metapodeon occupying less 

 than one-fourth of the back ; hind-border convex ; octoon and fol- 

 lowing segments of nearly equal size : legs yellow ; hips and thighs 

 green ; a broad piceous band across each of the four hinder-thighs ; 



