Mr. r. Walker on some new species of Clialcidites. 47 



of the radius ; brand very small. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of 

 the wings 8 lines. 



Para. In the British Museum. 



Smiera nigro-rufa, mas. Rvfa, nigra varia, petiole nigro, abdomine 

 rufoy antennis nigrisy alis limpidis. 



Body red, roughly punctured : head black ; sides of the front 

 tawny : mouth tawny : feelers black : breast, hind-chest, paraptera, 

 axillee and sides of the middle chest black : three black stripes on 

 the shield ; the side pair broad and oblique ; a three-lobed black mark 

 on the scutcheon : petiole black, slender, cylindrical, smooth, shining : 

 abdomen smooth, shining, short, globose, less than twice the length 

 of the chest : legs red ; hips black ; anterior thighs black at the base ; 

 middle shanks striped with brown towards the base ; hind-shanks at 

 the base and at the tips and hind-feet black : wings colourless ; veins 

 brown ; humerus near half the length of the wing ; ulna not one-third 

 of the length of the humerus ; radius much longer than the ulna ; 

 cubitus about one-fourth of the ulna; brand rather large, slightly 

 forked. Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



East Indies. In the British Museum. 



Callimome cyaneus, Kollar, fem. Purpureus cyaneo viridique 

 varius, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvisy femoribus purpureis, 

 metatibiis piceis, alis limpidis. 



'S^Fem. Body purple, pubescent, varied with green and blue : feelers 

 black, subclavate, a little shorter than the thorax ; first joint fulvous : 

 head and thorax punctured, in structure like the other species of Cal- 

 limome : podeon very short : abdomen purple, smooth, shining, nearly 

 as long as the thorax ; metapodeon blue, green at the base : legs 

 fulvous ; coxae and thighs purple ; metatibise piceous ; tips of the 

 tarsi picepus : wings limpid, rather short ; nervures fuscous ; ulna 

 much shorter than the humerus ; radius very short ; cubitus a little 

 shorter than the radius ; stigma very small ; oviduct fulvous, much 

 longer than the abdomen ; its sheaths black. 

 Inhabits Germany. 



.gniffiif^ Chalcedectus, n. g. 



^ l^upehno affinis, at quoad pedes posticos Chalcidi similis. 



^^Chalcedectus maculicornis, fem. Viridis, cupreo cyaneo et pur- 

 pureo varius, antennis nigris, articulo b" supra albo, tarsis 

 piceis, tarsis intermediis nigris basi flams, alis fusco subnebu- 



if 



"!Body brilliant green, narrow : head a little narrower than the 

 chest : crown narrow ; front largely and deeply punctured, with a 

 very deep almost smooth bluish green channel for the reception of the 

 first joint of the feelers ; face broad : mouth pitchy : eyes rather large : 

 feelers black, filiform, slender, as long as the chest ; first joint very 

 long ; second linear, long, nearly half the length of the first ; third 



