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tures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axillae parted by rather less 

 than one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhomboi- 

 dal : hind-chest rather short, obconical, declining, with a ridge 

 along the middle and a rim on each side : petiole very short : abdo- 

 men coppery-purple, smooth, nearly oval, rather slender towards the 

 tip, depressed above, very much keeled beneath, rather broader and 

 very much longer than the chest ; a large triangular bright bluish 

 green spot on each side of every segment ; metapodeon golden 

 green towards the base, occupying hardly more than one-eighth of 

 the back : hind-border convex ; octoon and ennaton of moderate 

 size ; decaton and the following segments rather longer : legs taw- 

 ny ; hips and thighs brassy green ; mid-feet and hind-feet yellow 

 with piceous tips : wings with a slight tawny tinge ; veins dark 

 tawny ; ulua not more than half the length of,the humerus ; radius 

 a little shorter than the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the radius ; 

 wing-brand piceous, very small. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the 

 wings 3 lines. 



Pteromalus Axos. Fern. Viridis, abdominis disco cupreo- 

 purpureo, antennis piceis, pedibusflavis, alis limpidis. Page 

 126. 



Bright green : head and chest convex, finely shagreened • 

 head broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets red : feelers clavate, 

 dark piceous, shorter than the chest ; first joint tawny, long, slen- 

 der ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very small ; the follow- 

 ing joints from the fifth to the tenth hardly decreasing in length ; 

 club nearly oval, pointed at the tip, a little broader than the tenth 

 joint and more than twice its length : chest elliptical, with a blu- 

 ish tinge : fore-chest very short ; its length above not more than 

 one-tenth of its breadth ; hind-border slightly concave : sutures of 

 the parapsides very indistinct; axillae parted by one-fourth of the 

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

 each side, and a very indistinct transverse suture 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 : ab- 

 domen long-oval, smooth, depressed above, very slightly keeled be- 

 neath, a little broader but hardly longer than the chest ; disk cop- 

 pery purple, which colour spreads more along the hind-border than 

 along the fore-border of each segment ; metapodeon not occupying 

 more than one-sixth of the back ; hind-border slightly concave; all 

 the following segments of moderate and nearly equal length : legs 

 yellow ; hips green ; tips of feet brown ; middle-feet and hind-feet 

 pale yellow : wings colourless ; veins tawny ; ulna full half the 



