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HALTICINiE. 



331. Tegyrius metallicus, Jacoby. 



Tegyrius metallicus, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 97. 



Body ovate, subcylindrical. Colour of upper side metallic 

 greenish-aeneous ; legs, the posterior femora excepted, yellow- 

 brown ; the rest of the body black. The coloration varies ; the 

 first two segments of the antennae, the legs and tarsi are some- 

 times stained with piceous. Posterior femora always piceous. 



Head: vertex smooth, impunctate, frontal tubercles and inter- 

 antennal carina rather indistinct. Antennae nearly as long as the 



Fig. 135. — Tegyrius metallicus, Jac. 



body ; first segment long and thickened, second thicker but shorter 

 than third, fourth slightly longer than third and equal to fifth, 

 sixth and seventh equal to each other ; the next four segments 

 become successively shorter and very slightly thicker than the 

 preceding segments. Proihorax as broad as long, front margin 

 straight, basal margin rounded, sides straight; at the anterior 

 angles the corners are oblique, and each of the anterior and 

 posterior angles possesses a seta-bearing pore ; parallel to the 

 basal margin and in front of it there is a shallow depression ; 

 surface strongly convex, smooth and impunctate. Scutellum 

 broad, triangular, with apex broadly rounded, surface smooth and 



