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Pteromalus Phalarsama. Fern. Viridis, abdomine purpureo- 

 cupreo, basi viridi, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus 

 anticis piceo-vittatis, alls subfuscis. Page 126. 



Allied to Trigonoderus. Body rather narrow : head and chest 

 green, convex, finely shagreened : head rather large, broader than 

 the chest : eyes and eyelets dark red : feelers black, subclavate, 

 nearly as long as the chest; first joint green, long, slender ; second 

 cup-shaped ; third and fourth very short ; the following joints, from 

 the fifth to the tenth successively, decreasing in length*; club long* 

 conical, more than twice the length of the tenth joint : chest spin- 

 dle-shaped, well developed : fore-chest rather large ; its length about 

 one-fourth of its breadth ; hind border concave : shield of the mid- 

 chest narrower in front : sutures of the parapsides distinct ; axillae 

 parted by about one-sixth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon 

 subrhomboidal, nearly conical in front, with a suture along each 

 side and a transverse suture near the tip : hind-chest well developed, 

 obconical, declining, roughly sculptured : fore-shield distinct : peti- 

 ole very short : abdomen spindle-shaped, smooth, purplish copper, 

 green at the base, depressed above, slightly keeled beneath, very lit- 

 tle shorter and narrower than the chest ; metapodeon occupying 

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

 of moderate and nearly equal size : legs tawny ; hips green ; fore- 

 thighs striped with green ; four hinder feet with piceous tips : wings 

 slightly tinged with brown ; veins dull tawny ; ulna a little more 

 than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little longer than the 

 ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the ulna ; wing-brand very small. 

 Length of the body 1— If line ; of the wings 2 — 2| lines. 



Var. 0. Thighs green ; four hinder feet much paler than the 

 shanks. 



Pteromalus Themiso. Fern. Viridis. abdomine cupreo-pur* 

 pureo, basi viridi micante, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, fe- 

 moribus viridi vittatis, alisfulvis. Page 126. 



Body rather narrow : head and chest dark green, convex, finely 

 shagreened : head rather large, broader than the chest : eyes and 

 eyelets dark red : feelers black, clavate, rather thick, nearly as long 

 as the chest ; first joint, long, linear, tawny, picepus at the tip ; 

 second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very short ; the following 

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

 hardly broader than the tenth joint, but more than twice its length : 

 chest spindle-shaped : fore-chest of moderate size ; its length about 

 one-fourth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest rather long : su- 

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



