On some Egg-parasites from Africa

Abstract

♀. Head shining green; face and front with purplish shine. Thorax orange-yellow, with a small black spot on each side of the pronotum; mesopleurae and propodeon slightly brownish. Abdomen aeneous-black, with dark green shine near the end; first segment (except two brown spots at the sides) and second segment (except hind border) whitish. Valvae of ovipositor white. Antennae brown, with scape and pedicel yellow. Wings dark brown, with the base and a bent stripe in the middle hyaline. Legs brownish yellow, with the trochanters and tip of tibiae and tarsi clearer yellow; base of hind coxae and a stripe on the inner side of middle and hind femora dark brown.