562 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



head plus thorax, acuminate, with tips of ovipositor sheaths just visible in dorsal view ; bristles 

 of pygostyles not very dissimilar in length. 



This genus is very close to Habrocytus Thomson, but differs by the following 

 combination of characters : 



Fore wing (Text fig. 315) with stigma larger. Propodeum with plicae incomplete ; 

 spiracular sulci subobsolete ; spiracles smaller than in the majority of Habrocytus 

 and more widely separated from the metanotum. 



Phaenocytus glechomae (Forster) comb. n. 

 (Text-fig. 315) 

 Pteromalus glechomae Forster, 1841 : 21, no. 138 6" ?. [sensu Giraud]. 



$. (Redescription) . Head and thorax dark to bright blue ; f rons sometimes more greenish ; 

 gaster dorsally with basal tergite mainly green to blue, the remaining tergites varied with 

 purplish, bronze, and greenish ; ventrally the gaster is reddish at least at the base, but often 

 extensively. Antennal scape testaceous, somewhat darkened distally ; pedicellus and flagellum 

 fuscous, the pedicellus sometimes paler beneath. Coxae mainly blue, but having their inner 

 aspect, and sometimes their apices, usually reddish ; rest of legs pale yellow to testaceous 

 with tips of tarsi brown ; femora often infuscate basally, sometimes mainly so. Tegulae 

 testaceous to brown. Wings subhyaline, but often with a brownish discal cloud at the outer 

 limit of the speculum ; venation testaceous to brownish, stigma usually slightly darker. Length 

 2-9 to 4 mm. 



Head in dorsal view 2-2 to 2-25 times as broad as long, 1-3 to 1-4 times as wide as the meso- 

 scutum ; temples about one third as long as eyes, rather straight, converging moderately ; 

 POL 1-15 to 1-2 OOL. Head in frontal view subtrapeziform, with genae curved and con- 

 verging moderately strongly. Eyes separated by 1-35 times their length. Malar space about 

 two fifths the length of an eye. Clypeus with fine striae which extend a little way up the 

 genae and face ; rest of head with very fine reticulation, that of the frons slightly coarser. 

 Antennal scape slightly more than three quarters as long as an eye, reaching level with the 

 middle of the median ocellus ; combined length of pedicellus and flagellum virtually equal to 

 breadth of head ; pedicellus about twice as long as broad, slightly shorter than the first funicular 

 segment ; flagellum not stout, though slightly stouter than the pedicellus, nearly cylindrical ; 

 first funicular segment 1-7 to 2 times as long as broad, the following segments slightly shorter 

 though all are usually longer than broad, except the sixth which is quadrate, sometimes also the 

 fifth is quadrate ; clava somewhat longer than the combined length of the two preceding funi- 

 cular segments, 2-5 to 2-8 times as long as broad, pointed apically ; ventrally the clava has a 

 line of micropilosity which extends the whole length of its third segment, and about half way 

 along the second ; sensilla of funicle moderately numerous, usually in two rows on each seg- 

 ment, sometimes only one row on the distal segments. 



Thorax about 1 -6 times as long as broad. Pronotal collar medially about one seventh as long 

 as the mesoscutum, finely reticulate with only a very narrow smoother line along its hind edge. 

 Mesoscutum i-6 to i-8 times as broad as long, finely reticulate at the front and sides, more 

 coarsely on the disc ; notauli distinctly impressed to about half way across the mesoscutum. 

 Axillae moderately finely reticulate at their inner ends, very finely so externally. Scutellum 

 about as broad as long, strongly convex, finely reticulate, the frenum hardly more coarsely 

 than the rest. Dorsellum alutaceous. Propodeum about half as long as the scutellum, medially 

 somewhat produced beyond the bases of the hind coxae ; median area very finely reticulate ; 

 median carina usually distinct as far as the nucha but sometimes irregular ; plicae incomplete ; 

 costula sometimes indicated ; nucha delicately aciculate-reticulate with transverse areoles, 

 its length about one third that of the propodeum. Postspiracular sclerite narrow, weakly 



