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brown, veins dark brown, except those bounding the first median 
and those bounding the two upper sides of the second median and 
outer side of the second submedian which are white ; the first sub- 
costal instead of being irregularly oblong as usual in the species 
noticed in this article, is much broader and irregularly pentagonal. 
The second subcostal is more regularly lunate in shape than 
usual, the outer side of the cell being quite regularly curved, and 
continuous with the inner side of the pterostigma, the shape of 
the cell approaching in this respect that of M. pieridis. Fore and 
middle trochanters black, legs deep honey yellow, with a slight 
reddish tinge, outer third of tarsi pale brownish ; hind femora red- 
dish honey yellow, tipped with black ; tibiae the same, tipped with 
black, tarsi wholly black. Abdomen entirely black, granulated as 
usual on two basal segments, polished beyond, a faint dull testa- 
ceous spot on under side of first segment, not appearing above. 
Length .13 inch. 
Bred from. Papilio Asterias by C. V. Riley. 
Genus Pteromalus. 
S. Body broad, shining, integument finely or quite coarsely 
shagreened ; head large, transversely oblong, shorter in the middle 
than on the sides, broader than the thorax. Antennae filiform, 
slender, hardly as long as head and thorax together; first joint 
linear, slender, second cup-shaped, third and fourth scarcely visi- 
ble, fifth and the following to the tenth short, club fusiform, 
twice as long as tenth joint. Thorax ovate, thick, high and very 
convex ; prothorax transverse, short, mesoscutum a little broader 
than long, sutures of lobes very indistinct ; scutellum short, ovate ; 
jwopodeum broad and long with the central disc scutellate in 
form. Wings broad, with the end of the subcostal vein ending 
in a knob, and with the costa enclosing a v-shaped area. Abdo- 
men narrowly ovate, being considerably narrower than thorax and 
shorter, depressed in the middle, shining (adapted from Wajker). 
Legs simple, subequal in size. 9 . Differs in the larger, stouter 
body and short broad ovate abdomen, which is nearly as broad as 
the head ; the body being usually darker and legs darker and 
with a slightly exserted ovipositor. 
