PTEROMALIDAE OF N.W. EUROPE 761 



mal segments of funicle slightly, distal segments distinctly, transverse ; clava about twice as 

 long as broad, nearly as long as the three preceding funicular segments together ; sensilla not 

 very numerous ; flagellum rather hairy, the hairs standing out somewhat. 



Thorax about 15 times as long as broad. Pronotal collar sharply margined almost through- 

 out, behind this mainly shiny with only traces of weak alutaceous sculpture. Mesoscutum 

 about 2-2 times as broad as long, rather dull, moderately finely but quite strongly reticulate. 

 Scutellum fully as long as the mesoscutum, distinctly broader than long, about as strongly 

 reticulate as the mesoscutum. Propodeum about two thirds as long as the scutellum ; 

 median area about 15 times as broad as long ; median carina fairly distinct ; plicae fairly 

 sharp throughout ; panels of median area finely reticulate ; nucha coarsely and strongly so, 

 occupying fully half the length of the propodeum ; callus moderately thickly pilose, with a 

 few hairs above the supracoxal flange. Fore wing with basal cell and basal vein virtually 

 bare ; speculum open below ; marginal vein 145 times as long as the stigmal vein ; post- 

 marginal vein slightly shorter than the marginal. 



Gaster ovate, 14 times as long as broad, about as long and as broad as the thorax, acute 

 apically ; basal tergite occupying about half the total length ; last tergite slightly shorter than 

 its basal breadth ; ovipositor sheaths projecting slightly beyond the tip of the last tergite. 



o*. Unknown. 



Holotype $. England : Oxfordshire, Bald Hill, near Lewknor, 8.IX.1957 

 (Graham), in Graham collection. 



A very distinct species, recognizable by its notably transverse head, shiny and 

 sharply margined pronotal collar, relatively dull and strongly reticulate mesoscutum 

 and scutellum, transverse funicular segments, and the dark colour of the body. 



It resembles the American species viridescens (Walsh) in the position of the 

 antennal toruli, the shiny and sharply margined pronotal collar, and some other 

 characters ; but viridescens has the head (Text-fig. 611) hardly more than twice 

 as broad as long, malar space slightly more than half the length of an eye, antennal 

 scape as long as an eye and reaching the level of the vertex, funicle proximally not 

 stouter than the pedicellus, its segments, except the sixth, not transverse, and 

 differs also in other small details. 



Biology. Unknown. 



Eupteromalus germanicus sp. n. 



(Text-fig. 636) 



2. Head and thorax dull greenish varied with bronze ; gaster bronze-black with some weak 

 greenish reflections. Mandibles reddish with darker teeth. Antennal scape testaceous, 

 darker apically ; pedicellus testaceous, infuscate dorsally ; flagellum fuscous, slightly paler 

 beneath. Coxae concolorous with the thorax ; remainder of legs testaceous ; the femora 

 tend to be brownish medially, whilst the tibiae have a broad brownish band before the middle. 

 Tegulae and wing-venation testaceous ; wings hyaline. Length 2-5-2-8 mm. 



Head 1-1-1-15 times as broad as the mesoscutum, in dorsal view similar to that of sub- 

 marginatus (Text-fig. 621) twice as broad as long ; temples somewhat more than one third as 

 long as the eyes, not strongly convergent ; POL about 1-4 OOL. In front view the head is 

 subtrapeziform, broadest above the middle and narrowing ventrad, about 1-25 times as broad 

 as high ; genae very slightly buccate, malar space not quite half the length of an eye. Left 

 mandible with 3 teeth, right mandible with 4. Antennae (Text-fig. 636) with lower edge of 

 toruli slightly above the ventral edge of the eyes ; combined length of pedicellus and flagellum 



