46 Mr. F. Walker on some new species of Chalcidites. 



Sparasion Sinense, mas. Viridi-cyaneum, ahdomine cyaneo-pur- 

 pureo, antennls pedibusque nigris, femoribus cyaneis^ tibiis tar- 

 sisque anticis piceis, alls subfuscis. 



Body convex, rather hairy : head and chest dark greenish blue, 

 roughly punctured : eyes and eyelets piceous : feelers black, nearly 

 filiform, shorter than the chest ; first joint long, stout, shining ; second 

 short, cup-shaped ; third very long, subclavate ; fourth and following 

 joints to the tenth short, transverse, nearly equal in size, but gra- 

 dually decreasing in length and breadth towards the tips of the 

 feelers : fore-chest extremely short, forming a narrow line in front of 

 the middle shield, the sutures of whose parapsides are distinct; 

 scutcheon obconical : hind-chest obconical, declining : breast smoother 

 than the chest ; the punctures being fewer and smaller : petiole very 

 short : abdomen long spindle-shaped, thickly striated, bluish purple, 

 bluish green at the tip, narrower than the chest and about twice its 

 length ; sides nearly smooth or having only a few indistinct punctures : 

 legs black, hairy ; hips and thighs shining, the former dark blue ; 

 fore-shanks and fore-feet piceous : wings slightly brown, somewhat 

 darker along the fore-borders from the middle to the tips ; veins 

 brown. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Fou-chou-fou, China. In the British Museum. 



Smiera torrida, fem. Fulva nigra varia, capite antico fiavo, an- 

 tennis nigris subtus ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus an- 

 terioribus flavis, tibiis posticis nigra vittatis, alis ad castam sub- 

 cinereis. 



Body tawny, roughly punctured, thinly clothed with short tawny 

 hairs : two black spots behind the head ; front and face yellow : 

 feelers black, filiform, ferruginous beneath and at the tips ; first 

 joint tawny : three black stripes on the shield of the middle chest ; 

 the inner one obconical ; the side pair oblique, slightly waved, taper- 

 ing towards the fore-border ; axillae black, parted by near one-third 

 of the breadth of the scutcheon, which has a triangular black spot 

 resting on its hind-border : propodeon smooth, shining : petiole 

 slender, cylindrical, a little longer than the propodeon, with a short 

 black stripe on each side : abdomen spindle-shaped, smooth, shining, 

 punctured towards the tip, more than twice the length of the petiole ; 

 metapodeon large ; octoon about half the length of the metapodeon ; 

 ennaton, decaton and protelum together as long as the octoon ; para- 

 telum and telum of equal length, together longer than the octoon ; 

 ventral segments concealed : legs tawny ; anterior thighs yellow ; a 

 black stripe on each hind-hip ; hind-thighs armed beneath with seven 

 teeth whose tips are black ; first and second very small, the other 

 five large ; a black stripe on each hind-shank : wings very pubescent, 

 slightly gray along the fore-border ; veins tav/ny ; supplementary veins 

 distinct as in other large species ; humerus much more than one-third 

 of the length of the wing ; ulna less than half the length of the 

 humerus ; radius as long as the ulna ; cubitus not more than one-sixth 



