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beneath, longer and much narrower than the chest ; disk coppery 

 purple ; metapodeon occupying about one-fourth of the back ; oc- 

 toon and following segments of moderate length : legs pale tawny ; 

 hips green ; hind-thighs striped with brown ; four hinder-knees 

 and feet yellow, tips of the latter brown : wings colourless, ample ; 

 veins pale tawny ; ulna hardly half the length of the humerus ; ra- 

 dius a little longer than the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the 

 ulna ; wing-brand very small. Length of the body f line ; of the 

 wings H line. 



Pteromalus Leuce. Fern. JEneo-viridis, abdominis disco 

 purpureo, antennis fulvis, pedibus fulvo-jlavis , alis limpidis. 

 Page 127. 



Body nearly linear, brassy green : head and chest convex, 

 finely shagreened : head as broad as the chest : eyes and eyelets 

 red : feelers tawny, clavate, a little longer than the chest ; first joint 

 long, linear, yellow 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 nearly oval, much broader 

 than the tenth joint and more than twice its length : chest short- 

 elliptical : fore-chest very short ; its length above less than one- 

 tenth of its breadth : sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; ax- 

 illae parted by one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon 

 subrhomboidal : hind-chest transverse, short : petiole very short : 

 abdomen long-oval, smooth, depressed above, keeled beneath, much 

 longer but not narrower than the chest ; disk dark purple ; metapo- 

 deon and all the following segments of moderate and nearly equal 

 size : legs very pale tawny ; hips green ; four hinder-shanks and 

 feet yellow, tips of the latter tawny : wings colourless, rather nar- 

 row ; veins very pale yellow ; ulna about half the length of the hu- 

 merus ; radius longer than the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the 

 ulna ; wing-brand very small. Length of the body f line ; of the 

 wings 1 \ line. 



Pteromalus Hyrtacus. Fem. Viridi-ceneus, abdomine pur- 

 pureo, antennis nigris, pedibusfu/vis, femoribus piceo-vittatis , 

 alis subfulvis. Page 127. 



Head and chest convex, finely shagreened : head very dark 

 green, a little broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets red : feel- 

 ers black, slightly subclavate, a little longer than the chest ; first 

 joint tawny, long, slender, linear ; second cup-shaped, piceous ; 

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



