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lowing joints to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club 

 spindle-shaped, rather broader than the tenth joint and nearly twice 

 its length ; chest short-elliptical : fore-chest very short ; its length 

 not one-tenth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest rather flat ; 

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

 fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhomboidal, with a 

 suture along each side : hind-chest obconical, declining, nearly 

 smooth, with a ridge along the middle and a rim on each side : pe- 

 tiole very short : abdomen nearly linear, depressed, smooth, bronze 

 colour, tiuged with green at the base, a little longer and very much 

 narrower than the chest ; metapodeon occupying more than one- 

 third of the back : legs pale yellow ; hips and thighs dark green ; 

 fore-shanks and fore-feet tawny ; tips of four hinder-feet brown ; 

 wings colourless ; veins tawny ; ulna rather thick, full half the 

 length of the humerus ; radius nearly as long as the ulna ; cubitus 

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

 Length of the body f line ; of the wings 1^ line. 



Pteromalus Mese. Mas. Aureus, abdomine purpureo, basi 

 viridi flavoque maculato, antennis fulvis, pedibusjlavis, alis 

 limpidis. Page 120. 



Body golden colour, rather narrow : head and chest convex, 

 finely shagreened : head broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets 

 dark red : feelers tawny, subclavate, a little shorter than the chest ; 

 first joint long, slender, bright pale yellow ; second piceous, cup- 

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

 the tenth of equal breadth but successively decreasing in length ; 

 club spindle-shaped, broader than the tenth joint and more than 

 twice its length : chest nearly spindle-shaped : fore-chest very 

 short ; its length less than one-tenth of its breadth : parapsides very 

 indistinct; axillae parted by less than one-fourth of the breadth of 

 the chest ; scutcheon rather long, subrhomboidal : hind-chest well 

 developed, obconical, declining, nearly smooth, with a ridge along 

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

 nearly linear, depressed, smooth, purple, a little narrower and much 

 shorter than the chest, having a large yellow spot near the base 

 which is bright green ; metapodeon occupying nearly one-third of 

 the back ; octoon and following segments of nearly equal size : legs 

 very bright pale yellow ; hips gold colour : wings colourless : veins 

 very pale tawny ; ulna full half the length of the humerus ; radius 

 as long as the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the ulna ; wing- 

 brand very small. Length of the body f line; of the wings H 

 line. 



