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Show 112 INSECTA. BELYTA, Cinetus, Jur. Where the antennce are composed of fourteen or fifteen joints; they are filiform in the males, more granose and thicker near the end in theT hfeem aoltehse( r1 ) O. xiuri have neither cells, nor brachial, nor basilary nerTvhuersees . have their antennce inserted on the forehead. DIAPRIA, Lat.-Psilus, Jur. No cell whatever in the wings. The maxillary palpi are salient, and the antennce l1ave fourteen joints in the males, or twelve in the females(2)· In those they are inserted near the mouth. CERAPURON, Jur. Lat. Wings furnished with a radial cell; the maxillary palpi salient; the antennce filiform in both sexes, and consisting of eleven joints; abdomen ovoido-conical(3). SPARASION, Lat. Similar to Ceraphron in the radial cell, and the projection of the maxillary palpi; but the antennce have twelve joints in both sexes, are thickest at the extremity or clavate in the females, and the abdo· men is flattened( 4 ). Then f~llow t~o subgenera also provided with a radial cell, and in which the antennce, as in Sparasion, are thickest at the end or clavate in the females, and where the abdomen is flattened} but the palpi are very short and do not project, or are not pendent. (1) Lat., Ibid., 37. ((23)) Lat., Ibid., 36. Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect., IV, 35. [For some account of an American ; species of this Insect, the dufrudor, which deposits its ova in the bodies of tho larv.e of the Cecidomyia destructor or Hessian-Fly, see Say, Journ. A.c. Nat. Sc. of Philad. vol. I, part i, p. 47, 48. ./J.m. Ed.] (4) Lat., Ibid., 34. HYMENOPTER A. ') TELEAs, Lat. Wher·e the ant~nnre are c omposed of twel . . ' ve JOints( 1 ). I SC:ELION, Lat. IW hhe re1 tl tose organs consi. st of b . n t e ast subgenus, or ut ten JOints(2). PLATYGASTER, Lat. 113 · ' t T.h e• J'adial cell <I 'I sappears Th en JOints, of which . e antennce of b palpi are very short the first and third are mu ~th sexes have but a spatula. • The abdomen is fl attenedc anedl o·n gated. The To this sub m the fot·m of J genus I refe th p . ar Insect in which t r e S'tle de Bose of . a solid horn wh· h he first ring of the abd Ju~lDe, a singu-which, accord' lC curves forwards to ~men gives origin to Leclerc deL mr to the observations of a ove the head, and is very smal!ava; is the sheath of the ov·an ~ble naturalist, M. an entirely black(.".> ) • Iposltor. This s pec1. es . In the sixth t ri' b e, or th C wmgs, as in the th e IIRYSIDEs L . their oviposit . :ee preceding tribes ' at.' the lllferior h or Is !Ormed b ' are not ve. d t_ e manner of the t b y the last rings of th me ; but ltttle sting. The ab u es of a spy-glass, and e a_bdomen in consist of but th do~en, which in th f, termmates in a and can be tlexe;ee or four rings, is con~a emales appeal'S to globular on the pectus, in wh' h ve Ol' flat beneath • IC stat h ' This tribe . e t e Insect is comprises th e genus CHRYSIS L' Th 1 ' m. ma e ustre an d ri. chness of . ' t y challenge a com . the. colours which , • . (1) Lat., Ibid "2 (2) ., ..> • " Lat., Ibid. 32 parison With those of the <f~:;;at~ these Insects m~ng-birds, and (J) L at. Gener' c . VoL. IV· rupst. e t Insect. IV ..,, ·- '-->""· |
