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



to the liiiid border of the scutum, which is included between the 

 sutures of the parapsides ; scutellum rhomboidal or nearly round, 

 clothed with white hairs on each side and at the tip, along which is 

 a rim prolonged into two short spines : metathorax transverse, very- 

 short : propodeon transverse, abruptly decumbent : podeon very 

 short : abdomen oval, a little shorter than the thorax ; metapodeon 

 smooth, shining, occupying nearly one half of the dorsum ; octoon 

 and the following segments dull, pubescent; octoon not half the 

 length of the metapodeon ; ennaton much shorter than the octoon ; 

 decaton shorter than the ennaton ; protelum nearly as long as the 

 decaton ; paratelum and telum short : legs yellow, in structure like 

 the other species of the genus ; coxae black ; hind thighs black along 

 two-thirds of their length from the base : wings limpid ; nervures 

 piceous ; humerus much less than one half the length of the wing ; 

 ulna more than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little longer 



. ;than the ulna; cubitus very short; stigma furcate, very small. 



■M Found at Sierra Leone by the Rev. D. F. Morgan, and presented 

 by him to the British Museum. 



4. Haltichella Sepyra, mas. Picea, antennis pedibusque nigris, 

 metafemoribus , protarsis et mesotarsis rufis, alis limpidis. (Corp. 

 long. lin. 2 ; alar. lin. 3^.) 



Male. — Body dark piceous, convex : head and thorax punctured : 

 head transverse, nearly as broad as the thorax ; vertex broad ; front 

 impressed : antennae black, filiform, shorter than the body : prothorax 

 transverse, subquadrate, longer than the head ; its hind border con- 

 cave : sutures of the parapsides distinct or complete ; axillae remote 

 from each other ; scutellum obconical, having a rim on either side 

 and behind, where it is slightly excavated : propodeon obconical, 

 declining, rugulose : podeon very short : abdomen oval, smooth, 

 shining, shorter and rather narrower than the thorax ; metapodeon 

 long ; octoon and following segments short : legs black ; knees and 

 tarsi red ; metafemora red, thick, each armed with an obtuse basal 

 tooth and having a black edge along its length beneath j metatibiae 

 curved ; metatarsi black : wings limpid ; nervures piceous ; humerus 

 much less than half the length of the wing ; ulna not one- third of 

 the length of the humerus ; radius nearly as long as the ulna ; cubi- 

 tus very short ; stigma very small. 



From Bombay. In the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. Perhaps 

 the difference between Haltichella and Hockeria is too slight to ad- 

 mit of their being divided. In addition to these two genera, the family 

 Chalcidce comprises the following : Smicra, Epitranus, Chalcitella, 

 Conura, Chalcis, Chirocerus, Phasgonophora, Dirhinus, Notaspis and 

 Agamerion. 



5. Callimome Amyrius, fem. Viridis, abdomine basi cyaneo, an- 

 tennis nigris, pedibus flavis, femoribus viridibus, alis limpidis. 

 (Corp. long. lin. \\', alar. lin. 2.) 



Body bright green ; base of the abdomen blue ; antennae black, 

 clavate, as long as the thorax ; base of the first joint yellow : sheaths 



