BY P. CAMERON. 637 



Chalcis poMONiE, sp.n. 



Black; liead and thorax densely covered with short, white 

 pubescence, abdominal segments on the sides fringed with long, 

 white hair; tegulte, apex of four front femora and base of their 

 tibiae narrowly, apex of tibiie more broadly, apex of hind femora, 

 base and apex of tibiae (about one-third), central black part a 

 little longer than the coloured base and apex, which are of equal 

 length, and tarsi, white; femoral teeth short, blunt, the basal 

 larger than the others; there are about ten teeth, covered with 

 white pubescence; wings hyaline, the nervures black. Length, 

 7 mm. 



Bred by Mr. W. \'>. Stokes, at Glen Innes, from the Codling 

 Moth (Carpocapsa pomonella), the imported moth so destructive 

 to apples. 



Closely, rather strongly, umbilically punctate; puncturation on 

 central lobe of mesonotum stronger than on lateral, on scutellum 

 still stronger: the apex of the latter projecting and transverse; 

 metanotum irregularly, coarsely reticulated; the central basal 

 area somewhat semicircular, bounded by a small square one on 

 either side, the outer area much larger, transverse, its apex 

 broadly projecting in the middle; base bordered b\' a row of small 

 arete, longer than wide, and of ecjual width; sides broadly 

 rounded. Abdomen smooth, shining, longer than head and 

 thorax united, gradually narrowing from the second segment to 

 the apex. 



This is not a typical Chalcis: the apex of the scutellum is 

 transverse and the abdomen longer and more distinctly narrowed 

 than e.y. in C. euplm<x.. Its precise generic location may be left 

 over until the male has been discovered. The abdomen shows an 

 approach to Gonura and Phasgonophora. 



Irichohalticella, gen.nov. 



Abdomen sessile, basal segment nearly as long as the following 

 segments united, closely, strongly, uniformly, longitudinally 

 striated, except on the outer edge, which is smooth and clearly 

 separated; it is longer than it is wide at the apex, which is 

 broadly rounded outwardly; the second is, from the form of the 



