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from the base to the apex; it is slightly longer than it is wide at 
the base; there is a distinct transverse furrow at the base; the ancillse 
are longish transversely triangular. The mesosternum is bounded, on 
the outerside, by a distinct furrow. Abdomen not quite as long as 
the thorax, broadly triangular, from the base of the 2nd segment, 
becoming gradually narrowed, the back depressed; the ovipositor 
projecting distinctly. Front and vertex with weak scattered punctures ; 
the thorax smooth and shining, almost bare; the abdomen is more 
shining than the thorax. Apex of wings shortly ciliated ; the marginal 
vein about twice longer than thick, shorter than the stigmal with 
which it forms an acute angle, the stigmal vein is knobbed at the 
apex, the post-marginal vein is thickened at the base, and becomes 
gradually thinner. The head is metallic, but not the thorax, the 
abdomen is less metallic than the head. The head, seen from the front, 
is as wide as long; the few punctures on it are thimble-like. The 
apical 3 antennal joints, seen laterally, appear in some examples, to 
form a 3-jointed club. 
In Ashmead’s classification this genus comes nearest to Hymencyrtus 
and Coccophoctonus , both of which may be known by the eyes being 
pilose. Compared with Ashmead's figure of the former, the scutellum 
is larger, and does not become narrowed towards the apex and is more 
distinctly longer compared with the width at the base, the abdomen, 
in the figure, is shown to be longer, and the antennae more robust; 
the pronotum, too, is larger. In shape it is more like Ashmead's figure 
of Farencyrtus , but that genus has hairy eyes. 
Lwencyrtus troupi , sp. nov. 
Thorax and legs reddish orange, the latter paler than the former, 
the head dark blue, the mandibles and palpi reddish testaceous, the 
pronotum of a dark, the base of the mesonotum of a bright metallic blue, 
the abdomen dark violaceous; antennae testaceous, the scape lighter in 
tint, more yellowish than the flagellum ; the apical club fuscous ; wings 
hyaline, the nervures fuscous, the margin shortly fringed. Entirely 
smooth, shining, the mesonotum covered sparsely with a short blackish 
pile. ? . 
Length 2 mm. 
Dehra Dun ; bred in November out of Lac. 
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